correctionsLPN1

I wish there was. We only have 1 med cart and it's to store all DOT meds

Thanks for your advice, I moved to a new account becUse I forgot the info for the last one but I'm the one who posted the question! I'm proud to say that I've gotten my dream job as a corrections nurse and I'm loving it! The pay is great and it's very reqarding!!!

I'll never forget the first sick call I ever read said "I feel as doe I have jock ich"

Hello to all my fellow brave correctional nurses out there!! I am new to this site and also a new nurse! Starting in corrections (my ultimate goal) but I'm having one issue. In the facility that I work in we house youthful adult offenders and due to having adults also they do not come to our pill line the YAOs have their medication delivered to them. The problem that I am having is the system that is set up to deliver the medications feels so unsafe to me and can very easily turn into a med error. 😣 So the system that we have is all medications a prepoured into 30ml cups and a lid is placed on the cup (all psychs are crushed and putt in water) on top of the lid that closes the cup we place another lid on top with the inmates name on it and place it in a tackle box and deliver the medication to the block. The problem is that these lids are NOT secure and sometimes they fall off or flip flop onto other cups. So if you are not familiar with the inmates and know what medication they take and this happenes to you jyou would have to either prepared again or would make a medication error unknowingly. I HATE this procedure. Any suggestions from any of you nurses that have deliver medications to blocks or RHU would be grealty appreciated!!!!!!!!!!