This is part three, our final post, in our Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Infectious Disease Prevention in Corrections series. Today we will discuss Responding to Emerging Infectious Diseases in Corrections. Emerging infectious diseases can appear with little warning, requiring rapid adaptation. In recent years, correctional facilities have navigated COVID-19, mpox (monkeypox), and novel influenza strains, each bringing unique operational and…
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This is part two of our Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Infectious Disease Prevention in Corrections. Today we will discuss Managing Established Infectious Diseases in Corrections. In correctional healthcare, some infectious diseases are so common that every nurse behind the wall will encounter them. Tuberculosis (TB), hepatitis B and C, HIV/AIDS, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and seasonal influenza are among the most prevalent—and…
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I have just written a new class at The Correctional Nurse Educator – Infectious Disease for the Correctional Nurse – and wanted to share some of the information I researched with our blog readers. This three-part series will include prevention, established and emerging threats, and patient education and nursing interventions for the patient with an infectious disease.   Infectious diseases remain…
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