November 2013 News Round-Up: Pew Report on Prison Healthcare Spending (podcast)
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download Our panel of nurse experts drills deep into the recently published Pew Report on Prison Healthcare Spending to discuss implications and compare their experiences with the report’s recommendations. Panelists include Johnnie Lambert, correctional nurse and Vice-President, Clinical Operations, Policy and Accreditation with Armor Correctional Health Services, Inc. ; […]
Correctional Nurse Gratitude for Correctional Officers on Thanksgiving
I am a whiner – ask anyone who knows me. In fact, check out last year’s post on this topic. But, that’s why I love Thanksgiving – a season when I can re-center myself on all the blessings of life and the people who do so much with so little recognition. This Thanksgiving season […]
Understanding Professional Boundaries (podcast)
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download Cindy Peternelj-Taylor talks about professional boundary violations in this episode of Correctional Nursing Today. Cindy is Professor, College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada and Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Forensic Nursing. She has done extensive research into professional boundaries in the nurse-patient relationship and […]
Too Tired to Think Straight: Fatigue and the Correctional Nurse
Years ago, when I was young with a school-aged son and in graduate school, I worked night shift in the critical care unit of our local hospital. I would work two 12 hours shifts over the weekend back-to-back. This is still very common in many clinical settings. In fact, nurses frequently work up to 3 […]
Verbal Order Safety Tips
Do you use verbal orders in your correctional facility? I bet you do…..and probably more frequently than traditional settings as prescribers are often less accessible in our secure environment. Orders communicated verbally are common in all clinical settings with estimates as high as 20% of all inpatient ordering. A Verbal Order (VO) has the following […]
Excellence in Correctional Nursing: An Interview with Ava Chavez, RN (podcast)
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download My guest on this episode is Ava Chavez, RN, Senior Nurse with Correctional Health Services (CHS) in Orange County, CA, where she oversees the daily nursing operations in the various clinical units located within the Orange County Jail system. She created a wound care team and manages the […]
Checklists in Corrections
My husband was, for many years, a private pilot. Although I could never get comfortable flying in such small compartments, I did travel with him many times and every time he went through a page of equipment checks before take off. Occasionally on business travel I have peeked in to the open door of the […]
Man-Down Emergencies: Are You Ready?
Emergency response, a fact of life in healthcare, has some interesting twists in a custody setting. Correctional nurses are called upon to respond to injuries from inmate scuffles in the yard, suicide attempts in isolation, and unresponsive inmates in the housing units. Are you ready for the next emergency you will encounter during your shift? […]
September 2013 News Round Up (podcast)
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download This monthly news round-up includes comments from Pat Voermans, advanced practice nurse recently retired from the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, and Mari Knight, Mid-Atlantic Transition, Training and HSA Support Nurse for Conmed Healthcare Management. Story #1: Indiana Inmates Provide End-of-Life Care Our first story comes from the Indiana […]
Struggling Against Instant Disbelief
I’m at the Custody and Caring Conference in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada this week networking with correctional nurses from various Canadian settings along with correctional nurse leaders from the UK, US, Australia, Sweden, and Germany. Keynote speaker, Dawn Freshwater, shared her developing model of caring in nursing in the offender populations called Custodial Caratis. I was […]
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