Question about sick line in maximum security area

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Specializes in Surgery 27 years.

What do you call your maximum security area? Do you run sick line there or is that something only the PA's or physicians do?

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We run nursing sick call by ourselves with an officer (or two, or three) in the seg unit. They have the inmate come to the sick-call room (which looks like an oversized closet). He is in shackles attached to the concrete floor. I do a complete assessment and make my decisions from there. We have an EKG machine in there so we can even do EKGs if the situation warrants it.

If a physician/NP is warranted, they will come over to the seg unit. It is usually something the nurse can treat.

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It is different in different facilities but basically what Firene said. Nurses do sick call in the seg units.

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Specializes in Hospice, corrections, psychiatry, rehab, LTC.

Routine sick call is conducted in the segregation unit by the nurses. If there is something that requires a physician's attention, the inmate will be scheduled for an appointment with the physician at a time when there are no inmates from other units scheduled. Any inmates waiting in the infirmary clinic must be from the same custody level.

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I am a 33 year nurse who had gone back for her RN. This site has been suggested by our instructor. I am use to working with officers from an ER position in a bad area of town. Do you find the security the jail offers sufficient?

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