God Bless Glenn Earl Smallwood Jr, Army Veteran and his family!!! Thank You for your service and RIP!!! How undignified, improper for the Jail staff showing no humanity or compassion!! I hope they all get what all they deserve!!! IMHO

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I worked as a nurse in a Detention center for a little over a year. It is inhumane. Green bologna, one slice, on 2 slices of hard bread for lunch, no air in summer, no heat in winter. Medical conditions that should be addressed immediately, and the inmates are told they can wait until next week for an xray on a white (no blood flow) finger he dislocated. Furthermore, the woman in charge would not let me reduce it. So, I told the inmate how to reduce it if it was me, and he did it himself. Pinked right up.
My goodness, the chain gang was more humane. I remember as a child taking cold lemonade out to the guard and his charges while they cleaned up our ditches along our little country road. We looked forward to seeing them every spring.
And, they all had good manners.

Wow!!! That is quite a story!! I am so glad you helped that inmate, that was kind of you and compassionate!!!💛

I became a nurse to help people, not to keep them sick. I tried to change things where I worked, but was simply told I had great ideas, but the cost of implementing my methods would cost too much. I was speaking of cooking balanced meals in the hospital as opposed to the fast food method our hospital had swithched to in the past 5 years. Their goal seemed to me to disrupt normally controlled diabetics diet when they are admitted. Within 12 hours after admission, and 2 meals from the cafeteria and now they could label them an uncontrolled diabetic, and keep them as long as they wanted, according to insurance.
What usually happenedd was some nice nurse would tell the patients family, "If you had the sugar under control at home, why not just bring the patient his regular meals while he is here." No problem, no spikes in blood sugar.
I gave up my license about 10 years ago after admitting defeat in my chosen profession.

Very sad! But TY for sharing this with all of us!!! Maybe in the future, things can be dealt with much better, and filled with more compassion and kindness!!!💛

We can hope and pray for that, but we need more compassionate people in healthcare. The biggest problem I see is the apathy of most nurses I worked with over 20 years.
They are in it for the money, and actually hate patients in my opinion. They get mad at the patient for code browns, or vomiting, or even asking for too much like blankets and pillows, or an ice bag.
I saw a patient code one day, and his nurse looked at the monitor, saw the patient was in trouble, and started cussing under her breath about having to get off her ass and take care of him.

Oh boy can I relate to all you have said here. I worked as an RN for 50 years. My specialty was ER and Critical Care. I was a staff nurse, charge nurse, and also had 3 jobs as a nurse manager. I had the opportunity to mentor quite a few new graduate nurses, as well as interview and hire nurses. The profession has changed dramatically and sadly not in a good way. You are correct, it became a job and not a calling for most. When interviewing nurses often the first question I was asked is "how much vacation time do I get?" Another statement was "I want to work only days, and I don't want to work the big holidays " 🙄 I also had to teach basic skills like venipuncture, catheter insertion etc. Some new graduates had never done this on a real patient, only on lab mannequins! Comfort measures were replaced with pharmaceutical interventions. No nutritional interventions, or lifestyle changes seem to be taught either. It is primarily pharmaceutical algorithms that are followed. 😒

THE ENTIRE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT HAS BEEN HAMSTRUNG BY PHARMA AND INSURANCE COMPANIES...ITS NOT MEDICAL PRACTICE ANYMORE AND NO COLORING OUTSIDE THE LINES....I WAS DIAGNOSED WITH WET AMD A MONTH AGO AND THE DOCTORS WOULDNT EVEN LISTEN TO MY QUESTIONS ABOUT ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS AND DISMISSED ME OUT OF HAND ....ALL THEY DID WAS WANT TO GIVE ME A NEEDLE IN THE EYE EVERY MONTH FOR $2000 A SHOT WHICH CURE NOTHING BUT WOULD MAKE THEIR HOUSE PAYMENT...ITS ABSURD