Correctional nurses must quickly develop a trust relationship with their patients in order to collect accurate data and effectively evaluate symptoms and requests. Yet, many incarcerated persons distrust almost everyone. They may have spent their lives using deceit and coercion to order their world, and so assume others do the same thing. As staff in a correctional facility, nurses are…
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Correctional nurses are often called upon to balance their professional duty with the realities of a secure environment. This can create situations where nurses know the ethically appropriate action but feel unable to carry it out because of institutional constraints, custody priorities, or systemic barriers. That feeling, the gap between knowing what should be done and what can actually be…
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Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis are both debilitating diseases that affect millions of individuals in the United States. In the correctional environment, the latest statistics by the Bureau of Justice indicate that “Arthritis” is the third largest chronic diagnosis for jail detainees and is the second largest chronic diagnosis for individuals incarcerated in prisons. Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis are often thought of as the…
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