2020
The Correctional Nurse Newsletters from 2020
January 2020
Happy New Year! As I look back in 2019, I am so grateful to have received the opportunity to continue this CorrectionalNurse. Net blog, and in the process, update Nursing Behind the Wall to be better utilized by all readers. It is hard to believe that this is my fifth newsletter! As I look forward, I see great opportunity to advance the specialty of Correctional Nursing, and I am so glad that you are with me on this journey!…
February 2020
On Fridays, I see patients at the Free Clinic. We are very fortunate to have many students who do their clinical rotations with us, including RNs, APRNs, PAs, and medical students, which gives me a great opportunity to talk about correctional nursing and correctional healthcare. In addition to discussing the patient conditions we treated in clinic that day, I usually share information about whatever class I am researching and writing for The Correctional Nurse Educator. The students, for the most part, are enthusiastic about learning new information…
March 2020
A few weeks ago in chronic care clinic I saw two patients who were Type II Diabetics . Both had been diagnosed a number of years ago, both were on oral hypoglycemic medications and both told me they knew all about diabetes. I could have moved on in the conversation, documenting that each knew about his disease, but instead, I asked more questions…
April 2020
As I sit to write this newsletter, I am focused not on the patient with thyroid disease that I had planned on sharing with you this month, but rather the COVID-19 health situation in which we find ourselves.
Words like “unprecedented,” “crisis,” and “uncharted territory” are consistently being used to describe this pandemic. Nurses, Providers and everyone who works in healthcare are being celebrated as heroes and publicly thanked…
May 2020
As I write this newsletter, we continue to be in the middle of the COVID-19 “unprecedented times”. While some say ithe situation is better, and some “non-essential” businesses are allowed to open (with restrictions), I hear from my correctional colleagues all over the United States that their practices will not be changing anytime soon. I am glad to hear that….
June 2020
I hope this finds you healthy and safe. As our politicians decide that it is “all clear” to return to social interacting, please be mindful that others in the medical field have opinions that it is very soon and that a second wave may be coming in the Fall. Good infection control practices should continue, and I am grateful that we have been brought back to the roots of our nursing.
2019
The Correctional Nurse Newsletters from 2019
September 2019
I am thrilled to be starting this journey into the world of blogging with you! Please note our new newsletter name to better reflect all three of our sites! The integration of classes and case studies to help develop clinical decision-making with the monthly topics at CorrectionalNurse.Net is time-consuming, but so exciting and well worth it! Every month we will have a clinical topic and a professional practice topic posted on the CorrctionalNurse.Net blog. At the same time, there will be a monthly case study posted on Nursing Behind the Wall involving the clinical topic, and at The Correctional Nurse Educator, an associated class that offers accredited continuing education hours will be 50% off for the month…
October 2019
I want to thank everyone who reached out to me about our new program integration – I definitely appreciate your kind words! I also want to be sure I am posting materials that are pertinent to your correctional nurse practice, and so I am looking forward to your feedback and suggestions for future topics.
I wanted to take a moment to share a couple of reminders with you this month…
November 2019
The American Nurses Association workgroup for the Correctional Nurse: Scope and Standards of Practice has finished it work, 13 months after it began. The draft Correctional Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, Third Edition, will undergo its first ANA review by the Committee on Nursing Practice Standards in early December. Upon successful review, that Committee will forward the draft document to ANA’s Board of Directors for final action that approves the scope statement and acknowledges the standards…
December 2019
It is hard to believe that we are already in December! I hope that everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. There is not a lot to report this month in terms of new things for the correctional nurse .. .perhaps a quiet month is a good thing!…