In Correctional Nursing practice, professionalism includes knowing and adhering to the boundaries of the nurse-patient relationship, which are defined by the correctional environment and the need for safety. Correctional Nurses convey caring for their patients through their communication, rather than through the physical or personal contact that our nursing colleagues practicing in non-correctional settings might use. Effective communication is so…
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Here are some ways to improve clinical judgment in the correctional setting. If you have a leadership role in your setting, you may be able to incorporate these processes into staff meetings, annual education modules, or quality improvement activities. If you have a frontline staff position, you can still benefit from incorporating some of these processes into your own professional…
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Over time, as experience develops, clinical reasoning themes emerge that speed our decision-making for commonly reoccurring scenarios. We begin, for example, to develop rules of thumb and analogies resulting in common pattern recognition that originate from past successes. The formal term for this is heuristics. In fact, clinicians rarely use formal computations to make patient care decisions in day-to-day practice….
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