“In a hospital setting, you have a lot of resources. You have doctors, you have co-workers who are other nurses, you have radiology technicians, you have respiratory,” said Medical Supervisor and RN at the jail Mary Ferguson. “In a community setting like this, unfortunately we don’t have the benefits of having a doctor on staff full-time, so it has them use their skills, you know, that they learned in school, become more familiar with the disease processes and how to treat things accordingly.”
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