Pros: autonomy, fun job if you can tolerate the current lpn/rn staff
Cons: no training, rapidly changing admin staff, lack of supportive upper management, the list goes on...
The administrative staff turns over faster than you can buy a new pair of shoes. Admin staff can go from dynamic and supportive to autocratic and disorganized. Medical support team are great to work with but funding, admin changes, makes their jobs difficult as well. Long hours, not enough staff to cover all shifts, no down time between shifts and a
– more... charge nurse that will throw RN staff under the bus in a heartbeat (that's only if you survive the knives sticking out of your back :). – less
– March 10, 2013
My security was lifted because I would not file a grievance on an officer for sexual harassment. They were trying to get rid of him and tried to use me. I had been there for 6 years and was very outspoken and stood my ground when its came to jeopardizing my licenses . Wouldn't let them manipulate me into not sending a inmate out to the hospital if he needed to go. They were so stupid , all they had to do is let him go. They put the officers on a two probation . it showed me that they would do anything to keep a contract. Since then (2 years)they have not been able to replace me . I still talk to the nurses occasionally. I have over 20 years in corrections and i wasn't going to let politics take me down. Gwinnett County is corrupted .They would send the inmates from the jail to the CI and make them work for about 6 month , where they were contracted out to the Parks and rec and send them back to jail when they knew they should have been sent to prison, Then they would reprocess they as a new intake and send them to prison after making money off them.I watched this process for six years because I also worked at Diagnostic Prison.