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Hello all, I am a seven year veteran of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and Immigration Health. I am also a graduate student working on finishing my MSN. My end of program project is a descriptive study of the correctional nursing workforce. I need nur...

Yes! As a nurse manager, I now hand a copy to my new nurses to read through as they move through orientation. It is an excellent resource and will help you get up to speed as well as learn national best practices...which may not always be what you le...

I have heard that LPNs licensed in PA cannot give meds without an RN present. Any truth to this? Anyone know where exactly to find support or refuting information in the practice act?

Thanks everyone.

I've sent you a PM. Hopefully, you can then reply. You should get a note in your email as well.

No, I was 'paroled' to Immigration more than a year ago. Shoot me a PM and I will give you the skinny.

STG provides contract employees for the Immigration detention center I work at, as well as all the other ICE detention centers. I have heard from their staff that they pay well, but that the medical insurance costs a lot. They may also staff more tra...

71 responses so far. Just a few days of data collection left. Can you help me get over 100 respondants?

One more week of data collection to go. If you have not already done so, I implore every corrections nurse to take this survey. Help shape the recruitment of nurses into our specialty. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LMSF2QD

The Chief Nurse for the Federal Bureau of Prisons has been gracious enough to distribute this survey to that agency's nurses. I would love to see a lot more state prison nurses and jail nurses participate in this survey so the federal presence doens'...

I would like to make the results available, yes. I may be able to post preliminary information. The long range plan is to attempt to publish the results in one of the NCCHC journals or the ACA health care journal.

Thanks to everyone who has taken part in the survey. More, please!

Sixteen responses so far! Come on prison and jail nurses, pitch in to help our specialty. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LMSF2QD

Money: Friends, family, criminal activity, inmate jobs. In many cases, though, inmates write the suit themselves and can file it for little or no cost based on laws designed to protect the ability of inmates to file suits for their own protection aga...

One thing that is special to corrections is the concept of deliberate indifference. This is different from malpractice or negligence and is often claimed by inmates. In addition, inmates have a lot of time on their hands and sometimes use that to sue...

Thanks for those who have responded to this survey. I would love to see many more nurses participate and help shape the future of our specialty.:specs:

As a sub nurse, I actually see some value in this idea (though I wouldn't personally want it done for me). When the students find out there is a sub in your office, they all come out. The teachers need to have a handle on this, as they know their stu...

So, I am a substitute school nurse. When my daugher started K last year, my school nurse asked me to apply to be a sub Basically so she would have someone she could call. When she knows she needs to be out in advance, she calls me to coordinate a dat...

Each program has a clinical requirement. The education track has a single clinical course which requires 180 hours of clinical. The administration track has two clinical courses, one with 80 hours and another with 100 hours. You have a lot of flexibi...

CPS is one option. If your school has a truancy officer, they may be of assistance - we've done that before with good results.

How about sending the kid to school with a homemade 'cast.' As in, a sock wrapped in duct tape. Had that recently.

Would the degree alone do it? Well, yes, but it may not get you where you want. Most people in middle and upper management have a combination of experience, education, and credentials. Any degree by itself is only likely to get you an entry-level job...

It is writing intense, to a degree. Each course has 8 modules, with 10 weeks to complete. So, one module per week with a little slack built in. Each module typically has about 5 short answer questions for which they suggest 250 words or more is suffi...

For the clinical, about 15 hours per week (including 'homework'). For the strictly academic classes, about 5 hours per week...but I am a fast reader, already familiar with much of the material from my MBA and I write very quickly as well so I am not ...

I think in the case of a SWAT team, there is not so much of a conflict. The medical staff are not part of the team, but rather an auxiliary. In addition, they have an ongoing relationship with the team but not the criminals they interact with. Thus, ...