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  1. unemployed, pregnant, emotional - HELP!

    emilyy11 posted a topic in Nursing Career

    Sorry, this is a really long post.. So I'm a fairly new nurse. I have been an RN for a little over 2 years and was an LPN for a year before that. I worked in a nursing home for a year, then moved to...

  2. SO BAD at drawing blood, starting IV's??

    emilyy11 replied to Chimio's topic in General Nursing

    I can draw blood easily using vacutainers and butterflies, but am terrible at IVs. But that just comes from experience. Working in jails and prisons, you don't have to start many IVs, but have...

  3. Terminated After Two Months!!

    emilyy11 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I think nursing homes are a good way to start out. You get experience without the urgency of other units. I don't believe correctional nursing would be good. I've worked in a jail and a prison and...

  4. unemployed, pregnant, emotional - HELP!

    emilyy11 replied to emilyy11's topic in Nursing Career

    I actually got an offer 5 hours after I interviewed at the local place I interviewed at today. I'm thinking I'll take it. Maybe a break from corrections will do me good. Thank you for your

  5. Client vs Patient

    emilyy11 replied to srercg's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a prison. I call them patients in my documentation, but if I'm not actively caring for someone they are just called inmates. We also call 99% of inmates by their last names, never first....

  6. Do you always get out of work on time?

    emilyy11 replied to sandiamts's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a prison and take care of 400 inmates with 2 or 3 nurses on at night. We have no time during med pass to sign out meds, so we prepare them and sign them out when we're done, which usually...

  7. A Day In The life of a Correctional Nurs.

    emilyy11 replied to LPNTOBE2017's topic in Correctional

    I've been a nurse in a county jail and a state prison. I really loved working at the jail. There was always something going on. We'd have med pass, intakes, emergencies, drunk/high individuals,...

  8. Quit job because of bad boss.. now she's gone and I want to go back

    emilyy11 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I worked at a county jail as an RN for over a year. I really loved my job. The only problem was I had a bad boss. She started a few months before I left. She enacted policies that were unrealistic...

  9. Quit job because of bad boss.. now she's gone and I want to go back

    emilyy11 replied to emilyy11's topic in General Nursing

    I made roughly the same amount of money. State benefits are pretty awesome at my current job. Both jobs are a few blocks from each other. Both 12 hour shifts. I would be more likely to get days at...

  10. CNA first then RN?

    emilyy11 replied to Dahliadiaz's topic in Nursing Career

    I worked as a CNA for 4 years before becoming a nurse. I felt it helped me to understand the health care field better, as I was able to closely observe the nurses and what they did. It also helped...

  11. What's the meanest thing a patient has said to you?

    emilyy11 replied to fangirl's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I work at a jail. I've been called it all. I had a diabetic inmate who was hypoglycemic last night tell me to bend over and kiss his ass as I was trying to get him to eat. I was doing a DUI blood...

  12. How many jobs/units until you found your "niche"

    emilyy11 replied to Michellelove's topic in General Nursing

    I have been a nurse for 2 years. The first year I worked as an LPN at a LTC facility. I had worked there as a CNA 3 years prior to that. I enjoyed geriatrics, but felt that when I became an RN I...

  13. Best Sick Call slips

    emilyy11 replied to DawnJ's topic in Correctional

    He just found a thing to print off

  14. Best Sick Call slips

    emilyy11 replied to DawnJ's topic in Correctional

    I had someone put in a sick call asking about getting glasses. He used "eye" instead of "I" through the whole request. I responded the same way. :) I had another one that was "I am having brain...

  15. medication delivery!!!!

    emilyy11 replied to correctionsLPN1's topic in Correctional

    We use envelopes when we pre-pour. The only people we pre-pour for are those on lock down. We can't bring the cart into segregation

  16. Which nursing specialty has the most autonomy/independence? Apart from nursing practioner

    emilyy11 replied to Zyrv's topic in Nurses Rock

    Corrections is pretty automomous. I work at a county jail with 400 inmates and only 3 nurses on duty. Doctors are there for only a few hours a day, 4 days a

  17. Signs you are a Correctional Nurse:

    emilyy11 replied to DawnJ's topic in Correctional

    That awkward moment when someone comes to sick call because someone else put a request in for them for "my pee pee burns" A heavily tattooed inmate is afraid of getting their TB test done. The...