RNetpreneur

I have done many different specialties and positions in my nursing career. I keep coming back to correctional nursing. I have used everything I ever learned in school and then some. Correctional nursing is what you make of it. I enjoyed focusing on teaching and assessment skills. You become accutely focused on your listening skill to evaluate what a person is really saying. You develop critical thinking in disease process and patient education. If you are looking for gradification from your patients, that is something that you must learn to ignore because of security reasons but you can develop satisfation in realizing that you are making a difference and if not today then maybe in the future what you said or did will benefit that person.

I will be moving to AZ in the next several months. I have worked in correctional nursing for over 15 years - both state run and private run. I also have worked fron staff nurse to HSA. What is the feel for AZ correctional prisons/jails?