The officer working in A pod calls to medical and reports that several individuals are complaining of feeling generally unwell,…
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Nursing Practice
Correctional Nursing: Is It For You?
Very few nurses decide on a nursing career with the thought “I want to be a jail nurse”
Correctional Nurse Clinical Practice Update: Asthma II:
Nursing Assessment of the Asthma Patient The assessment of a patient with asthma should begin with baseline vital signs, including…
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Correctional Nurse Clinical Practice Update: Asthma I
WHAT IS ASTHMA? Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways, associated with recurrent, at least partially reversible airway…
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Correctional Nurse Clinical Practice Update: Red Eye – Conjunctivitis
The complaint of red eye is common in the correctional environment. It may or may not be associated with visual…
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Correctional Nurse Professional Practice Update: Failure to Rescue and Nursing Vigilance
Failure to rescue is defined as the inability to save a patient’s life when the patient is experiencing a life…
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