OldcootRN

I've been a correctional nurse in a state prison for better than 8 years and CCHC nurse so I do understand your situation. Our protocal is to do an EKG on ANYONE incarcerated that c/o chest pain. So what if security gives you "the stink eye" when you do obtain a EKG? YOU are the health care professional, not them and it's YOUR license that is on the line. Your job security comes from giving good care not from the bullies with a badge. If this continues, go see your HSA and report the officers in question. Your license could depend on it.

Is your facility accredited? If it is, you may find help here National Commission on Correctional Health Care If not, you may have more problems than can be addressed with your current chain of command. Good luck.

Just left a position that we PRAYED for only BID passes (600+ inmates). We had a doc that decided that it would be "fun" to watch us run around trying to do QID meds that could have been done BID with no clinical consequenses. He told a mutual friend of mine he did that to keep the nurses busy and to keep them from doing nurse call and making referals to him. Yup, glad I'm gone from that place.

Unless you are getting 2 paychecks, you shouldn't be working 2 different positions. Don't put yourself in such potential danger (legally). Choose one or the other and don't let the powers that be talk you into doing both.