I am one of the few nurses that work at south polk county jail in frostproof, florida. We are contracted nurses with Corizon. This company is allowing us to work very short handed and expect us to do unethical nursing care. For instance while passing the evening meds, I must take blood pressures and initial sick call slips. This is very unclean medical care. We handle the meds and give to the inmates and then take their blood pressures, the handle the sickcall slip the inmate has been handling. This is done for hundreds of inmates that is in each area. Would you want to accept medications from a nurse that has just handled unclean sickcall slips and blood pressure cuffs?
When a nurses call off a night nurse sometimes has to stay for 4 extra hours pass the 12 weve already worked just to pass meds on day shift med pass. This leads to mistakes. Some of the buildings are operating without a nurse to do sick call and inmates are wondering if they are going to get any care and are making threats on nursing staff and officers. We already had a nurse beat by an inmate and she almost lost her life because of it a few years ago. I was almost punched by an inmate the other night and would have been if not for quick actions of the officer present.
Our DON Jason Berkowitz and our HSA Jean Murray could care less how over worked and understaffed the medical dept. Is. There are many of us talking amongst our selves of resigning and going else where, where maybe we can make a difference and be appreciated.
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