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Turn Key Health Clinics

I came from a corrections environment where leadership and support were missing, and the work load was exhausting. After three years at that prison, I was terrified of transferring into the same situation and almost left the nursing profession completely. Turn Key Health Clinics saved my sanity, my moral, and my love of nursing. The people I work with and for have demonstrated compassion for the inmates and all patients are well taken care of. The Turn Key staff have also treated me with absolute respect and appreciation. I am an "old-school" nurse coming from the days of patient care as ultimate importance and was afraid that my age and work ethics might clash as I am in my sixties and a little nit-picky. The honest truth now is that I leveled up! Our HSA steps in to help us when needed and has even worked the 12 hour night shift when there was no one available. She never complains about doing extra, but rather encourages us through her own example and joy.  She listens to us! She works with us! She absolutely cares about each one of us and it shows in our work environment. I look forward to going in to work, something which has been missing for two decades, and am excited to see my co-workers. My heart is full rather than depleted when I leave to go home. The paycheck is an added bonus rather than the motivator to keep working, plus the pay is great for what I do as a corrections nurse. 
After all these many years as a nurse I feel as though I've been rewarded for my dedication. I am so grateful to be working for this company. Turn Key recognizes their staff's value as people. I am no longer just a shift number. I am needed and appreciated! 

POOR organization. High turn-over rate. Pay unremarkable. Management evasive, unpredictable, untrustworthy. I enjoyed working for this company as a floor nurse (2018-2020), but immediately regretted my decision once I stepped into management (early year 2020). As a floor nurse I was able to come in, organize my shift, get our work done, and go home. I worked night shift, so I caught glimpses of possible issues during the day but never experienced it firsthand. Working in management at this site, I saw how horrifically disorganized and unprepared TK is. To put into perspective, my short tenure of DON (4 months) saw 3 different people in the HSA position. I now fully understand why there have been MULTIPLE DONs over the past few short years: the environment and workload is truly unsustainable. Always a high turn-over of nursing staff (which has been something I've witnessed since I started working there in 2018). No clear, concise guidance. No (what I would consider) justifiable training or preparation. Senior leadership unable to answer questions appropriately, or provide guidance one would expect from their role. I ended up working MULTIPLE 24hr shifts due to short-staffing/call-ins, etc. Murky waters. Not worth the stress to me, or the impact it had on my physical health and family life.

Turnkey itself is a pretty decent company but the problem is the people the hire for the management/supervisor positions. The HSA and DON work separately and look for whatever opportunity they can find to stab each other in the back and they DO NOT leave their office to assist the nursing staff! Eventually you will question what exactly it is that they do. They're so focused on turning the nursing staff against the other that they can't even focus on what needs to actually be done to better the company. 
The deputies on the unit typically don't even care to assist you and there seems to be nothing that anyone can do about that. 
They will promise you the world in the interview then you're hired and ask yourself why you even showed up for work. The benefits suck, PTO is basically limited, you're expected to find coverage when you request to be off, and you cannot bring phones into the facility. You're basically an inmate that gets to leave and come back. 
The most interesting part about this job is that they'll have you unknowingly training your replacement before firing you!

I absolutely cannot say enough great things about working for Turn Key Health Clinics. I’ve been with the company for more than 4 years now, and I’ve never felt anything less than valued, trusted, and protected. The regional manager for my site not only touches base regularly to be sure her staff are physically and emotionally doing well at the job site, but also in our personal lives. That may seem like a small gesture, but we all know that sometimes in the medical field, the job overshadows the person. In my experience, Turn Key doesn’t operate that way, though. I feel valued as both a nurse and an individual! Corrections nursing is NOT for the faint of heart...it’s challenging, frustrating at times, and requires a level of critical thinking that I’ve never encountered in other medical fields...but having the support of a family like Turn Key- from the regional nurse to the nurses at the clinic site- makes the job not only enjoyable, but fulfilling. As a nurse of 11 years, I can’t see myself in any other field, with any other company. I’ve truly found my calling thanks to Turn Key.

What is the best part of working at the company?
There is no best part about working for this company. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
TK Administration is no help. They ignore phone calls and emails when you need answers or help. They ignore you and when trying to give an opinion for the betterment of the facility you are just talking on deaf ears . 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Administration allows the nurses to run the facility. To do, say, and come as they please just because they need bodies there. It’s no need to have someone there to run the jail because they take the word of the nurses over everything. Don’t think you will be able to make a change in the facility because they will not allow or agree with it. You are always wrong regardless if they know exactly what is going on and you have the proof to show it. And let me not forget to say that HR is HORRIBLE!!!! 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Walking on egg shells, not appreciated, always drama, and mess.

A typical day is trying to get your medications passed within 2.5 hours. This is not always successful, almost never. I learned that I got into the medial field to care and I was working with a lot of licensed professionals that does not care about inmates. They are just there to receive an easy pay check. Management claims they are always working to make things better, however, they sit in their office and only come out if there is a tour or inspection to investigate the conditions of the jail. The hardest part is seeing inmates suffer due to lack of care. No matter how much you try to get the the help needed, the licensed prejudges what they feel the inmates may or may not need. Licensed staff has stated they only work in corrections because they don't have to care. The most enjoyable part is when I would walk into a POD and the inmates are so happy to see that I am here to help. They know that I will go about and beyond to assure someone knows they are in need of medial attention.

If you are able to come in competent in your scope of practice, and have the ability to find the answers on your own; you will love this job. Training consists of hopefully 2 days of someone else running the clinic while you prep meds and do med pass then you are on your own. Read the manuals and figure it out. Find a good coworker to ask questions to. (Not admin, trust me) The patients need someone who understands they are hurting, scared, and frustrated, and will treat them like the humans they are without falling for any over the top manipulation they may try to pull to get what they want. Understanding a little psychology goes a long way here. You can make a huge difference in the lives of the patients and the staff at the facilities you work at by being deliberate in your comunications with patients, setting clear fair boundaries, and following through on your word.

Made promises, then failed to deliver: Referral Bonuses, COVID pay, 3 shifts per week, healthy work-life balance.

Never has money for raises or bonuses, always has money for agency staff.

Limited and unprofessional communication from nurse management. (It would be easy to believe they were hired by friends or family.)

Now advertising at a higher rate of pay than the staff already there working and training, which means sub-par trainers or sub-par managers or out of touch recruiters who will not be held accountable for clever wording to hide this discrepancy.

They are desperate, so if you need money fast, this is a decent temporary job. (However, you would make more going through their agency rather than working for TKHC.)  Just keep searching for the right job though, because this one is demoralizing and dehumanizing. 


Don’t work for this company unless you want to have numerous promises made to you that are either never kept or eventually reneged on. They make decisions about your employment status without consulting you. Good luck getting them to reply back to you if you need anything that it not to their benefit. The corporate office is compiled of treacherous individual’s who care nothing about the staff below them other than viewing them as work horses and attempting to turn them into in-compassionate individuals like themselves who care about nothing but the almighty dollar even at the expense of their “valued employees”.  The new regional nurse manager for Arkansas talks to staff members disrespectfully, undermines the efforts of loyal and diligent employees, and feels as though she must often remind them of her title. If you are a honest and hardworking individual then this is not the place for you becuz you will be taken advantage of and not compensated for your efforts.

I really like Turn Key. I have quite a few years of experience in ER/Prison nursing. I was looking for something that is ever-changing but was unsure about leaving DOC. The average day is busy- with varying levels of nursing skills in use- that constantly switches between paperwork to lots of excitement depending on our visitors to the facility. I work 3/4 days rotating with my counterpart. I have also worked with quite a few Turn Key "floats" lately, and I've noticed the location may be different but TK really works hard to make sure everyone is trained the same way as far as procedure and ease of transition to a different facility. The DON of the facility is a lead-from-the-front kind of person and the balance of the staff really appears to care out the patients and works hard to cover all their duties. I wish the pay was a little better but overall I am really very happy about my switch to Turn Key. 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Licensed practical nurse 237 salaries reported	$30.19 per hour
Registered nurse 60 salaries reported	$42.17 per hour
Mental health technician 20 salaries reported	$39.25 per hour
Licensed vocational nurse 47 salaries reported	$30.14 per hour
Certified medication aide 25 salaries reported	$18.16 per hour

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