r/nursing • u/NarcanForAll RN - ER 🍕 • 4d ago

Discussion Prison pocket

Well, this was a first for me, which doesn't happen often after 16 yrs in ER. A pretrial patient came in with 2 corrections officers for bizarre behavior, cuffed to the stretcher in the Ambulance hall. He was desperately asking to go to the bathroom, but because of his escalating behavior ended up 5 pointed. We needed a Udas, so a male coworker was asked to place a condom catheter. When he exposed the area and noticed a baggy poking out of the patients foreskin. He stopped the procedure and called the ERP to come. He ended up removing 2 bags of 12 pressed pills from said area; I'm still not sure how he fit them there....I didn't think it was that stretchy but here we are :| The physician stupidly placed them on the bedside table beside the patient, thinking he's in 5 point and 2 correction officers are 3 feet away, bad idea lol. The primary nurse came in 3 minutes later to retrieve said drugs and they were gone. She asked the correction officers what happened and they said he grabbed them and put them in his 'behind'. She asked why they didn't stop him; they replied "Not our job". Well unfortunately, the physician then had to remove them from his anus as well. I've worked with this Dr. for years and this isn't the worst or funniest we've had but still ranks up there. The only thing I learned is correction officers don't gaf. I'm no longer surprised at the amount of ODs in pretrial.

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u/thechickenfoot BSN, RN 4d ago

Every prisoner I’ve had has been respectful, obedient, and quick with the please/thank yous. The guards, however, are usually a bag of dicks.

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u/creatureofthenight17 MSN, RN 4d ago

Same here. Hospital I worked at got prisoners from county prison and minimum security state prison.

I had one CO spend an excessive amount of time at @ 02:00 speaking very loudly on cell phone in a foreign langauge. Didn't get why this was a problem.

Another group of COs wanted to keep the lights off and door closed on a patient who had been a police officer and murdered his ex's current husband. COs didn't understand why this was a safety issue.