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It depends where you work.I work Corrections in Florida and love it. Check more into the facility first before making up your mind.The wage is good.Is the company PHS?

That is so sad.Its mostly because the inmates are mad that they got caught and are in jail.Some are looking to take as many people down with them as they can.They are locked up for a reason.I often tell the co's I work with that I am so glad for them or our city would have these people on the streets where we live and our children play.Thank God for corrections.

never had it happen.They would have to stay in the brigg.

I pour according to the mar at the pod door checking id's and watching them swallow.This new jail though has KOP meds which floors me.I have never been allowed at the other facility to hand over a persons meds for them to keep in the pod.You are not sure if they are trading them etc.Its wierd and goes against what I have been taught.Also when I first worked at one facility we prepoured and used med cards and cups but the inmate had to take it at the gate as well. I wonder about this new method.I am not comfortable with it. I apprieciate any imput.

Hey they did have some jobs in Northern Cal listed which I have heard is one of the most beautiful places to be.Plus you get alot of perks like same day medical and an apartment and gas money etc.If the pay is good you can maybe do only two three month assignments a year and be free for the other six months.

Heres what I tell them.I just state,"Its because you are in jail.Just take your pills and go about your business." I don't change my demeaner and keep on pulling up pills by the mar and calling out the next name.You have to be professional.Straight up but professional.

Hey just an ups I was on Delphi forums tonight and I saw that there is a travel staffing company paying corrections RN's like sixty bucks an hour.No kidding.The LPN's are getting 32.00 and hour.Its not the only company I have seen do this either.I got on TNT Recruiting Board and put in a search for LPN jobs and it came up.Hope this is a blessing.

I moved to Florida but am still in corrections.I worked for Lafayette Parish Correctional its staffed through agencies.I staffed with Nursefinders.

Yes I am doing the same search.Maxim does.There is a staffing site as well on line.Google for it.

Just my thoughts but it seems the thing incarcerated women need training on the most is community services and common usable information. Most don't have job skills or any idea how to get a college education or where to apply for housing etc.Many are codependant and drug education seems such a low man on the totem pole. Many are not trapped in the lifestyle because of not knowing the health issues facing the drug abuse.Many are trapped due to feeling oppressed and because of poor relationships.These relationships lead to drug abuse.Just some thoughts.

Hey that is very encouraging.I have also wanted to get an RN degree.I just had to raise my kids first.I am a good nurse and love nursing.We do the same work.I just want the pay raise.I make about the most I can as an LPN with thirteen years experience.Thanks for the encouraging post.

Here is my newest technique: For those who continually complain of chronic allergic rhinitis and are on the most expensive allergy meds possible but are still calling the line for "medicine." I now visit them and teach them how to clean out their nostrils with nasal saline.What a let down when you were expecting more sudafed and advil.No more calls from that person.

Well I disagree totally.I have met some of the best nurses where I work. We have codes all day long and they can hang with the best. Corrections is where your BCLS will come in handy.

I am on my feet for most of my ten hour shift.I wear Free Spirit shoes during the week and Crocs for the weekends.Plus you can clean the crocs easy due to the places nursing takes us on our feet....lol..

I work in a facility that houses both minimum and maximum security inmates.We have about 1300 men and women. I just treat them like people. You cannot recognize who is a murderer etc just looking at them. Those who you would think are aren't

1. How long was your training prior to working in the prison? Four days.I am agency 2. Do you feel the self defence course offered prepared you for attack? None was offered but I took karate prior to working here. 3. How would you react to being taken hostage?Don't know.I might end up behind bars for the rest of my life. 4. Have you ever had to preform CPR inside the prison If so what happened? Yes all the time.Most don't make it out.Many are in bad health shape.

Yep just happened day before yesterday. I go down to intake to get a blood pressure on a new roll in. They have three females in a cell.One is crying and saying...help help help us.I get the deputy.We call a code as one of them is on the floor appearing to have a seizure.She had just come back from the hospital.When the cart arrives she gets up and says...I can't help it I can't help it.If you have ever seen a real seizure there is no way she could have jumped right up to her feet and suddenly regained all conciousness.lol..anyway the one calling for me was wearing a green fuzzy bathrobe. We get the inmate into oranges for the ambulance ride and she is calling out to the others...I love you..I love you...It was like a movie or something.lol...Whew...I hate it when women smoke crack.

Never heard of it but the idea sounds good.Only if you ever worked corrections could you apprieciate the idea.

I found my job on Career builders on the net

God forbid you should put the scale on med call cart.You will never leave for the day..lol..

Yes www.health-force.com

LPN Louisiana $22

Its pretty negative but I keep myself on a positive thought process and treat each person with dignity.I don't like being put in risky situations though they sometimes arrise.

Heres my day: Awake at 4 am. Make coffee/dress 5 a out the door. 5:45 at work clocked in and on the floor giving Road crew meds or counting narc/stock/answering phones/looking at medical hold inmates and medicating them/calling mental health staff services/foodservices/ custody/intake for paperwork/bringing roll out or transfer meds up front while checking on new roll ins.In the midst of this Code Blues take priority so I drop what I am doing and run grab the emergency cart and jump in an elevator with other staff and off to see what can be done.Sometimes this exhausts me for the rest of the day..lol.. 7am..code 4 roll meds upstairs to maximum.Give three floors of meds unlocking doorslots and inbetween court calls/GED/KITE/breakfast. 9 am back down stairs to find missing or moved inmates or get new mars or orders etc.Depends on if the md wrote some or the dentist while I was upstairs. 9:30-11am find charts for sick calls. 11 am give noon meds. 12 or 12:30 lunch 12:30 stock sick call cart. 1:30 up on floor answering calls and doing RA cell checks etc.most anything at this point can be happening from emergency care of inmates to emergency care of custody etc. 3:30 back down to write orders/call pharmacy and order meds/file paperwork etc./help other nurses so we can leave and shift who came on at 12 can finish their day. Day ends 4 mostly 4:30 Walk to car in relief thankful that I made it through another day.

ugh the pay rates have not increased in six years.I moved from there making those prices.Baptist was extremely good to me.They also have several outpatient (doc in box) clincs you can work in.Sacred Heart paid okay but I did not work there.I only worked private duty for a company that seviced their private duty.I hear they are profit sharing. West Florida Hospital was bought by the same company that bought out the home health company I worked for....COLUMBIA MEDIAL CENTER> Whew!!! Not a good thing.That is when I quit.