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hi i have been a nurse for a million years but new to this area - could someone help me with the s/s that labor is starting and a trip to the hospital should be started? i will be working in a womens prison so this will surely come up. thanks :)

THANK YOU Orca - very helpful and nice of you - i will check out the book :) thanx, rayea how do your feel about either of the certifications for correctional nurses - impressive or not so much? more importantly would they help me learn? one is aca and the other is ncchc (i think) thanks and do you love it or is it a job :)

Hi and Help Just got a job in a correctional setting (prison for women) - Please tell me everything and anything that will help me :). I have years of medical and actually worked in a "jail" for three years but I still am searching for anything that will help me. I will read stuff on this site and google but any tips would be amazing :). I am especially interested in caring for pregnant inmates as my previous experience in corrections was mostly with men. The women I worked with were great but VERY manipulative and would do anything to get a ride to the hospital so if this is the case I need to know about care of female, pregnant inmates (have had no children yet so...). THANKS for any pointers or references or anything :) rayea

and VivaLasViejas "Weeping may endure for a night......but sanity returns in the morning light."---Me - did you write this? love it :) rayea

so now the above post comes out correct - what on earth?

hi VivaLasViejas(sorry this is blue my computer skills are not so 16 year oldish )thank you for your information - it was a while back but i always check back on things - brilliant stuff you said here and seems to help me distinguish better - thank you - just like in nursing school when you learn about a disease everybody is like omg i got it - well when i read all the psych stuff - i am still like omg i got it - guess we all have a little of everything cuz i certainly have never met someone who has it together all the time :) moderation and learn to laugh i guess - I do thank you :)r[/url]ayea (yup now it turns randomly black at the sign off hahaha) thanks now that i posted it i see it is underlined too - ha

oh Ciale i in no way was trying to judge you in ANY way - i thanked everyone for helping me. Please re read my post about the reason I stopped because of my previous experience where i backed away. That comment was about me and only me - please forgive if it sounded otherwise. :) and fyi if you are an er nurse i am jealous as i could not do it and i thank you for all the heroic things you do (not over dramatic - i mean it.)

You'd be surprised at how many people listen to the nonsense nurse/Mommy voice to sit and be quiet. (i love this part Esme12)sorry about your friendthank you EVERYBODY who helped me with this - i thought i was smart and i know better about the asa npo no moving etc i was just feeling helpless and that is not an excuse to be sans brain :) thank you thank you thank you :)

Esme12 you are amazing - I am printing this :) thank you (please forgive but he was sitting so leave him that way dont make him lie down which would be moving him, correct?)

thanks dolcebellaluna and Meriwhen - wouldnt the treatment (although i dont know other than behavior therapy how to help borderlines) be the same whether it is a learned behavior or from stress or actual borderline? i only like the terms because it actually helps me think that the person cant help the behavior and is not acting a certain way just to get what they want or manipulate - i think it gives me more patience

thank you ~*Stargazer*~ ! he was sitting up in the middle of the road cuz he had tried to get up several times before i got to him and he kept falling back so i hope you are saying just keep him in that position? and he was edgy and not sitting really still

haha batgirl23 i thought it was some psych thing :)

batgirl23 you are probably so correct (what is IMHO)

Thanks StVitusDanceRN now i will know better next time - i thought about the water thing but i was trying to take care of immediate needs and i really should know better - thank you

THANKS Sassy5d luckily i had no asa or i would have done it - now i know better :)

hi Ciale i think you are brilliant and experienced and i thank you - one time a car pulling a trailer flipped in front of me - i stopped and ran to it with other people - it made a noise like it was about to blow and i backed up and watched a bunch of men go forward and pull them to safety - i have felt like a wimp ever since - i thought about it and decided i would rather die helping someone than to already have a dead soul and walk away - that is just me; you are already hero being an er nurse - something i am neither smart enough for or have the stomach for so thank you :) and really - even the water was a bad thing?

thanks Adenosine6 :)

By far the worst company I have ever worked for - PROFIT PROFIT PROFIT; i live in minnesota and usually people are treated more professionally here as opposed to naughty children; seriously look up their lawsuits in different states - stillwater in minnesota for one - unfortunately nobody does anything about them because they save the county / state money and the general public thinks - they are criminals so who cares? My thought if we choose to put them in cages then we OWE them basic medical care. Corizon is very good about documenting the so called care - BE VERY AFRAID!

thank you vera4130 now i feel secure on that point :)

thank you Orca - everybody on here is sooo refined in their knowledge - I think I better hit the books more often :)

Hi! I am in no way an emergency nurse - I am an RN and have lots of medical and i have a degree in psych. Yesterday as i was accelerating onto a freeway from another (50 - 60 mph) a motorcycle flipped right in front of me - his bike landed and then he flipped several times (no helmet). I absolutely do not know how he is alive but I stopped my car and hung out with him until an ambulance came which seemed like forever. Other folks called 911 and some people got his bike off the rode etc. He told me he was having chest pain and left arm felt funny etc. I asked his name, got a strong pulse and inquired about cardiac issues. He stated he had high blood pressure but not on meds and was 38 and smoked - he was a large guy but looked healthy other than his head which had a steady stream of blood coming from an abrasion (didn't look deeper). He kept asking me to get out of the rode and was sitting up with my help (also said he was short of breath). I told him we were blocked by a car and safe where we were and were not moving until the ambulance arrived (clearly hit his head since there was blood all over) and it was 97 degrees with very high humidity and we were sitting on the asphalt with rush hour traffic so breathing etc could have been related to that. I used my fone to call his gf while we waited and got stuff from his bike for him etc but found myself very ill-prepared to help him other than talking to him and trying to reassure him. Before I stopped he had tried to get himself up several times and kept falling. Some work men came and gave him some water. Sorry about the essay - my question is can someone help me prepare an emergency kit for my car and truly even an er nurse couldn't do much without some equipment. And - would I be a bad nurse because if I had had some aspirin I would have given them to him - PERIOD. His only allergy was iodine and he was able to take asa if we had had some. I am simply wondering the best action legally and otherwise (minnesota) if i did anything like asa (as a human being I don't care about the law if it would have saved him) ADVISE PLEASE. I felt completely helpless. He went off to the er so I hope he was fine. The were putting a collar on him when I left. Suggestions for car stuff? THANK YOU SO MUCH!

thanks batgirl23 and Meriwhen ​you guys are GOOD :)

I do know that they do not compete clinically - this is someone that cannot or will not keep a job, demands to be the center of attention or is angry, angry as hell all the time and states that everyone else is mean, lies to get money or get out of doing anything she doesn't want to do, recently states she is depressed and has threatened suicide several times, second marriage is completely falling apart and she will take absolutely no responsibility for her big part in it, talks (gossips) about everyone in a very negative way, has an addiction to percocet and blames the doc when he wont refill it early and on and on and on. (the depression seems to come on suddenly when her unemployment ran out and is now trying to get disability for three years and has been turned down three times and is appealing .) Thanks everybody!!!!!

hi - Does anyone know of any good articles distinguishing bipolar from borderline personality disorder? Or.....anyone with knowledge? Thank you :) I know I have a DSM but.....

hi HouTx you are a doll to answer me and very informed :). i do thank you :)