My corrections rant
I started a local county jail last December. I was looking forward to trying a new form of nursing. I found the place very toxic, some of the RNs were very rude, as well as the medical assistance and support staff. Many didn’t talk to me at all, and no one really welcomed me. I shrugged it off and thought maybe it would change. It never did. We were constantly shortstaffed and so were the CO’s. To the point where I was afraid of something happening. More than once when I was going up to units to see inmates for care, the elevator door would open, and I would walk out, and the Sally ports to the units would be open with inmates in them. I complained more than once, but never heard anything back about it. The last two days I worked there I worked in intake, and it was crazy busy. The second day they actually got another nurse to work in there with me because there was over 40 inmates already in with more coming in the door. There were four COs both days, which seems like not enough. The city I work in is over 1 million people with a lot of drugs and homelessness. I had at least 20 people on detox.
I had put my two weeks notice in the Friday before and at the end of my shift yesterday they came in and said they were accepting my resignation starting immediately and they walked me out. I’m glad I’m gone honestly, but I did not realize that they did that to you after you put in your two weeks.
Does this sound normal to you guys? My training was literally nonexistent and never really understood the jail culture and was never taught. I had to figure things out as I went.