Their socio-economic and health profile make caring for women in prison more resource intensive than caring for men. In addition to their background, women also have gender-specific health conditions that require additional attention. One such category of medical need is reproductive cancers. Incarceration is both an opportunity to screen for these high-risk conditions and an […]
Ethical Dilemmas in Correctional Nursing
Ethical dilemmas are common in correctional nursing. Working in a secure environment where health care is not the primary mission can lead to conflicting goals that challenge nurses to consider the very foundation of their professional practice. Here is a review of the basics of ethical care along with some common ethical dilemmas in this […]
Call a C-O-D-E to Find Moral Courage
Tanya was working in a state prison in the nursing pool to make extra money for her college tuition. She was studying to be a nurse practitioner and thought it would be a good experience for her. Although she was learning much from her shifts there, she was also distressed by the treatment of a […]
The Final Episode (Podcast 150)
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download Even good things have an ending. After nine years in operation, the Correctional Nursing Today podcast is closing. This episode – 150 – is the last for the show. On January 21, 2010, I had my first ever podcast using a platform called “Blogtalk Radio”. I recently loaded […]
Caring for Women in Prison: Reproductive Health
Twenty-five-year-old Joanie found out she was pregnant during routine screening on intake to the city jail. She had been picked up during a street sweep over the New Year’s holiday. A series of poor decisions and an addiction to cocaine that she couldn’t shake had landed her on the street, sleeping rough, and getting by […]
Silence Kills: Communicating for Patient Safety
What do you do if you see a fellow nurse not washing her hands after a dressing change or not checking the MAR (Medication Administration Record) before administering routine medication to a patient? Speaking up about breaches in safety rules or other concerning issues can be a struggle of conscience. Staff nurses like to avoid conflict. […]
Reducing Hospital Readmissions Among Incarcerated Patients (Podcast Episode 149)
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download Clarence Cryer, Jr, MPH, CCHP-A, Chief Executive Officer for the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison, Corcoran, CA, talks with Lorry about reducing hospital readmission rates. He published the article Reducing Hospital Readmissions Among Incarcerated Patients in the January 2018 issue of the Journal of Correctional […]
Correctional Nursing and the Ethic of Social Justice
Have you ever been asked what you do as a nurse and found yourself launching into a discussion of sick call and medication passes? It is easy to get lost in the weeds on our professional journey. That’s why it can be refreshing to periodically return to the defining qualities of the nursing profession to […]
Improve Dementia Care by Communicating with R-E-S-P-E-C-T
This guest post is written by Jaime Todd, MBA, LNHA. His bio is found at the end. An elderly inmate was brought into the medical unit of a medium security prison to be checked for injury after an altercation in one of the housing units. He looked older than his 62 years and seemed disoriented. […]
Stress Reduction Through Yoga During Reentry (Podcast 148)
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download Lorry’s guest for this episode is Alexandra Wimberly, PhD, Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work in Baltimore. She and her colleague, Dr. Malitta Engstrom, published the article Stress, Substance Use, and Yoga in the Context of Community Reentry Following Incarceration in the January […]
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