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Bad scare
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Posted 4 months ago Yesterday I responded to a fight. The guy ended up bleeding like a stuck pig and therefore I also had his blood all over my hands and arms. I also had some healing scratches on my hands from playing with a buddy’s cat. After I got the guy cuffed I took him down to the infirmary where I found out he was a big time drug user and had just that day had a shooter’s abcess removed from his arm. I am still waiting on the results of my blood tests to see if anything was transmitted. Anybody else ever have a good scare? On another topic, I responded to the call on the radio for officer needs assistance I was the first to respond and started to administer first aid. The officer had passed out and hit her head on a slider flange and was bleeding badly from her head. There was a nurse with the officer when she fell out, but the nurse did nothing. I found out that the nursing staff have a standing order to NOT help the Deputies if they are injured. The nurses are there only for the inmates and the insurance does not cover them if they treat the Deputies. Is this how it is in your facility? If you do not know you should find out, it might be your life on the line! Our watch commander did not know about this order, it was us Deputies that brought it to the attention of the Captain. |
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| Posted 4 months ago That is BS....nurses are required to help any injured party, no matter who they are....they could lose their job for that. Failure to Render Aid is a criminal charge....you can use it. "Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself." - Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant "America was not built on fear." "America was built on courage, imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. " - President Harry S. Truman |
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| Posted 4 months ago I have to agree with KETOLACA. That is a fat load of BS. At my facility the nurses are required to treat evryone who needs medical assistance. I know I have had my fair share of assistance. |
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| Posted 4 months ago skullmonkey1 said: I am one of two Infection Contol Officers for BOC for my department...1) You have a legitamate need to know if that inmate had anything you should be concerned about...HIPPA allows decimation of helath info based on that need to know. 2) You may be able to have the court compell the inmate to have a blood draw to also establish if there is anything to worry about. 3)The only thing your going to have blood tests for at this point in time is to establish that you currently do not have aything. So if you do get ill later, they MIGHT be able to track it. 4) About the nurse's policy, excuse me, but that is pure and simple BU77$h!^...are you Union? This sounds like a greivance. The nurse should be held to some degree of having a duty to act in that situation. It's not like the officer had a broken nail and was able to put a piece of cellophane tape on it. Your officer lost consiousness and was bleeding (and boy, head wounds can bleed!) Now that the medical policy has been made public, it should be addressed...it is outrageous that the policy puts an officer's health at risk and it needs to be ammended as soon as possible. A word to the wise: when you make your injury reports, make a copy for yourself. Do not wait for the department to send you a copy...here, the subject's names and other info is edited out. So, if in the future I had to make a claim, I would not have any names to put to it as to who the contagious person was.... |
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| Posted 4 months ago Have to watch some of the folks at accident scenes as I well, I asked a flight nurse if she could grab a license for me and she said here and stuck out her hand. I thought she was giving me a license, instead she dropped a bloody set of dog tags in my un-gloved hand. PAIN IS WEAKNESS LEAVING THE BODY! |
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| Posted 3 months ago That's messed up about the dog tags. I saw a deputy slide his hand under the bottom of a bunk without looking. The officer wound up getting 6 stitches in his right hand because he sliced it open on a needle that was hidden under the bunk. The needle was being held under the bunk by a magnet out of a radio that offenders can by through the commissary. The nursing staff at the facility weren't able to help him so they transported the deputy to the nearest General hospital. Youi would figure that medical staff would be able to assist injured officer's to some degree... |
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| Posted 2 months ago hi my name is kendrick were i work at we have code. code blue is inmate on inmate an code red is inmate on officer. well on 5-1-08 i had a inmate try me. that was scare cause i didn't know if the other inmates was going to help him out. |
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| Posted 2 months ago I had one of the bodily fluid scares a little while back. It wasn't too much, certainly not as bad as blood, but we were doing a cell extraction on a 302 subject who was attempting to commit suicide by cutting/ chewing through his wrists. When we went in and I went to secure his upper right extremity, he spit right in both of my eyes. He got transfered to another facility, but fortunately a good person in program services talked to him and I got full medical disclosure. He was clean, but still, everytime that sort of thing happens you have to get them tested. There's all the Hep strands and other nasties out there that could make life suck down the line. |
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| Posted 2 months ago MOGLI528 says ... I have to agree with KETOLACA. That is a fat load of BS. At my facility the nurses are required to treat evryone who needs medical assistance. I know I have had my fair share of assistance. Personally, I have told other officers to NOT let our nurses help me. I'll take my chances on the way to the hospital. |
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| Posted 2 months ago For next time.... you should find yourselves in this absolutely horrifying situation: Use soap and water to wash the body fluid/blood from the site. A hell of a lot of it. That will at least cut your chances of infection to 1/2. Carry antiseptic wipes with you too. Scrub the hell out of any open wounds of yours. That will at least reduce chance of infection by another quarter. Cover the site with a bandage (open wounds of yours) to prevent subsequent contact. Get tested. Get retested. I know it sucks but there it is. |
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| Posted 2 months ago well first of all you need to stop playing with cats!!! lmao im just kidding hey man i hope all goes well it sucks having to deal with scumbags bleeding on you while you try to save their sorry asses. |
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| Posted about 8 hours ago That is the most Fu*^#%@ up thing i have heard of. When i went to work yesterday i asked my captain about the medical staffing policies, and told him what you said happened at your place he stated he has heard of alot of places with policies like that, and in his words ''that shit better not happen here''. Who ever made that policy at your place hope that they dont come there get beat up by a POS . IF they do tell them that you can't help because your primary concern is the care and safety of the inmates.
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| Posted about 3 hours ago There is a product out there that you can spray or wipe on your skin that provides a barrier against liquids. Don't know the name right off, but we do keep a bottle of it in Booking. If I come in with cat scratches or other un-healed wounds I can put it on before I do anyting else. As to fschuster's experience, it sounds like it should have been handled by a DRT unit. Our Detention Response Team uses helmets with face shields. They help out a lot in these cases. As to the nurse's lack of help, I agree that it probably falls under a failure to act statute and could well be a criminal act. At the least, I'd let the nurses know that if they ever get in a bad spot with an inmate, they shouldn't expect the swiftest response from deputies or co's. Turnabout is fair play. That ought to make them reconsider. Go out today and preach the gospel, and if you must, use words. St. Francis of Assisi |
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| Posted about 3 hours ago in june i got into a fight with a guy and he ended up bloody. well he decided it would be funny during the fight to spit on me and his blood had gotten into his mouth. so now i had saliva and blood spit all over my face. earned him and extra charge of agg assualt on a po. we pulled his blood right then and there and it was taken to concentra to be examined as did i. |
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| Posted about 3 hours ago ccso8462 says ...
Just because they don't do their duty doesn't mean you should lower yourself to their level. I assume that you mean tell them that but that you don't mean you wouldn't do your job. |
