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One thing that our clinic has done as far as decorations is not necessary focused on a theme. We have the ceiling tiles painted with pictures that were painted by some of our talented patients, as well as by some of the local high-school art students. The painted ceiling tiles are then placed mainly above the patients chairs. So, when the patients are lying back in their chairs getting their tx's, they can look at the paintings on the ceilings. So many people have complimented our clinic on this clever idea.

I have been with DCI of Mid-Missouri for nearly 6 months now. I'm an RN, and my training will be finally ending the first week in May with them setting me loose as charge nurse. What you're saying about Davita is similar to what you will find at DCI. It is a wonderful company, and many nurses have been working for our company for 10-20 years. I'm wondering if it's has something to do with dialysis being such a "special" area of nursing. Maybe it's because dialysis is all what we do, so we are able to focus on our job much more and become very good at what we do. Working with confident nurses who know their job very well and are always willing to do a job well-done really makes a difference.

I work for DCI (Dialysis Clinics, Inc.) I absolutely LOVE my job and this company!!!!! I will retire with this job!!!

I wish there were more responses to this question, because I am seriously considering applying for a correctional nurse position at a nearby prison. I have no idea what it could be like to be a nurse in a prison. I wonder things like: are the inmates handcuffed when you treat them? are you alone in a room with them, or is there a guard with you? what about the inmates that are extremely hostile, and will do anything for agression, like spit in your face? Let's face it, these inmates are dangerous, so how safe is the nurse treating them?

WOW!!! "Julie from Dallas", as I read your response, I was wondering if we work in the same facility! (But there are no Julie's where I work). I'm here in central MO working for a LTC facility, and we've got the EXACT same problems! It's scary!

Thanks texascowgirl! I have loved your responses, and you sound like the type of gal I would love to work with! Any chance you want to come to central MO and go to work with me at the prison here? Question: I have read many posts about how prison nurses need good assessment skills. Well, I'm wondering how much different it could be from the assessment skills I use in the nursing home? Most of the residents have alzheimer's, so they are not the best in telling me what's wrong with them, because most of them don't know which end is up. I must use my assessment skills to know when to call the doctor, and when just to send a fax to the doctor.....or simply just wait it out and see if condition changes in time (like a belly ache). How different could it be in the prison? Do you have on-call Doc's to call for advise?

:yelclap: I working in a nursing home, and have been considering moving on to a new type of nursing. I have read all the posts about prison nursing, and have found everything so positive. I must say this post you made has made the biggest impact on me. I find my job in the nursing home not very rewarding. Ninety percent of the residents have some degree of alzheimers, which means many of them don't remember what I did for them 2 minutes later, and most don't know my name. I try my hardest to make them happy, but they are never satisfied. I have received maybe 2 "thank you"s throughout the 8 months I've been there. All this, and I'm supposed to stay calm, curtious, kind, and understanding. I'm a pretty cool gal, but when I'm PMSing, it gets pretty hard sometimes!! I don't dare be rude, because the DON or administrator are hanging around a lot! How much I would like to tell some of them exactly what I think, but of course I have to bite my tongue! If I did go to prison nursing, I'm sure I would good, because I am very compassionate, and actually, I am truly a sweetheart in general. However, it sounds like it would be a lot less stressful during those PMSing days! I can be a B****, and sometimes I wish I had the freedom to be cranky if wanted to! Any thoughts?

Thanks! Would you believe just as I posted this last night before going to bed, I wake up to go to work today, and the State Inspectors show up today!!! They had been to our nursing home to do inspections several times since I've worked there, but I lucked out each time without them inspecting MY work--until today! They watched me do dressing changes and pass meds. I do excellent work all the time without anyone watching, but to have a state inspector watch your every move is VERY intimidating. A transfer to a prison-nursing job sounds even more interesting now after your response!

I'm an RN in central MO currently work in a nursing home, and have loved my job up until recently. "Corporate" is cutting out nursing staff. And although no one is losing their jobs due to it, we are however expected to work less days a week. We have approx. 75 residents, and up until now, we have had 2 charge nurses on day shift (me being one of them). Now, we are expected to work with just one charge nurse. That makes me responsible for all 75 residents, and I am running ragged!! Plus, we are due for another big state survey (inspection) any time now, and the DON and administrator are not in very good moods these days. Stess, stress, stress! I live near a prison, an all-male C-3 state-run facility. I've been thinking of getting a nursing position there. I have read a lot of posts on this site, finding a lot of positive things are being said about prison nursing. Was wondering, do the nurses/medical staff get big inspections by state inspectors like they do in the nursing homes?