Prison Nursing: You can do it.

You may think that working in a prison would be the last place you would want to be. Prison nursing, also known as Correctional nursing has become a new and interesting career choice for nurses. When working within a prison system, the nurse has much more autonomy than they might in other traditional settings; in [...]

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Why I quit prison nursing. Part 1. Fake seizures, fake bloody vomit.

A few weeks ago, my bud @nursewendy, posted about the generalities about prison nursing. (You can read her post here: Prison nursing facts) The first thing I’m going to warn you about, and I did say warn you, if you are offended by foul language and hard core facts stop reading now. Ok, there’s the [...]

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Why I quit prison nursing Part 2. Some good stuff but not for me.

So yesterday I wrote about some of the challenges in prison nursing. Today I will mention there are some positives, if you like independence in your position, but overall, it wasn’t for me. Back to my experience: I quickly found out that on night shift there was a lot of independence. The way it worked [...]

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