One in ten doctors and NURSES abuse drugs or alcohol. Is this surprising to you? It was to me when…
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Nursing Practice
Correctional Nurse Practice Update: Four Ways to Build a Trust Relationship with Incarcerated Patients
Correctional nurses must quickly develop a trust relationship with their patients in order to collect accurate data and effectively evaluate…
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Correctional Nurse Professional Update: Moral Distress, When Doing the Right Thing Feels Out of Reach
Correctional nurses are often called upon to balance their professional duty with the realities of a secure environment. This can…
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Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis are both debilitating diseases that affect millions of individuals in the United States. In the correctional environment,…
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Correctional Nurse Clinical Practice Update: Arthritis Management Behind the Wall
Arthritis is one of the top five chronic conditions found among our patient population, yet managing this debilitating condition is…
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Correctional Nurse Professional Update: Implicit Bias – Recognizing What We Don’t See
Correctional nurses pride themselves on objectivity, fairness, and professionalism. Yet like all humans, we carry unconscious assumptions that can influence…
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