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Other People’s Lives

A Prison Nurse Shares Her Wildest Stories

Other People’s Lives

Santagato Studios

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:29.8

If there was an emergency where somebody is stabbed up, if they're unconscious, something like

0:35.0

that happens, the officers are going to cuff them up anyway, no matter what part of the compound they're on.

0:40.4

Because if they do wake up and they don't know what's going on, they could get mine.

0:52.9

Welcome back to other people's lives.

1:13.0

I'm Joe Sanagato. I'm Greg Dyback. For anyone out there that would like to be a guest on our show, don't hesitate to reach out to us. Our email is OPL podcast at gmail.com. Today we are going to be learning about someone's job. Super interesting job. We are speaking to a woman who is a prison nurse. So we've got the guest on the line and thank you so much for being on today.

1:15.1

Thank you for having me. Yeah, of course.

1:16.0

I know the job title is pretty self-explanatory, but can you just give us the brief job description and I guess your general role as a prison nurse?

1:29.3

Okay, so I work at a male maximum security prison and we house about 2,000 inmates.

1:38.3

The nursing care is pretty much responding to traumas, giving them any kind of medications that they would take daily.

1:48.0

We do give a lot of psych meds and things like that.

1:51.0

We do their insulin care, checking their blood sugars, following up with labs,

1:57.0

like any kind of stuff that you would do at your doctor's office.

2:00.0

We do that kind of care there as well.

2:03.7

And just like I said before responding to traumas because we are in a prison. So there are a lot of

2:08.6

fights and things like that that happen. Is this? Because I'm like curious how you end up, you know,

2:14.6

at this particular spot. Like is like were you kind of applying to be a

2:22.6

nurse in a prison? I started out, actually, I've been a nurse for 20 years. So the first 15 years,

2:31.7

I was in long-term care. So I worked at a nursing home where we did like end-of-life care, post-surgical care, skilled therapies, things like that.

2:43.1

Worked there for a really long time.

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