Can an understanding of your inmate’s traumatic past help with current management issues? You bet! According to Stephanie S. Covington, Ph.D., L.C.S.W, you can keep things under control by looking behind erratic behavior and violent outbursts to see what is going on inside an inmate’s thought world. ... Read More about Trauma Informed Care
The Correctional Nurse
Improve Health Care to Save Money? Who Knew?
Attending the Association of Health Care Journalists Conference this week has given many opportunities to consider the application of current health issues and trends to the correctional setting. A discussion of the Affordable Care Act by CMS Director Donald Berwick, MD, in a Newsmaker Briefing does ... Read More about Improve Health Care to Save Money? Who Knew?
SBAR Improves Clinical Communication
My last post talked about improving clinical communications in corrections and mentioned the SBAR format. I thought I'd add a couple videos to give a poor example and one that is improved with the SBAR format. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qHCmJzJiAo] If I were listening to this ... Read More about SBAR Improves Clinical Communication
What’s It Like to Be a Correctional Nurse?
Gina over at the CodeBlog recently interviewed me about correctional nurse life. She asked some interesting questions about what we do in corrections and how care is organized. Check out the post for the full interview. She is interviewing nurses working in unusual specialties for an ongoing ... Read More about What’s It Like to Be a Correctional Nurse?
Top Correctional Health Care News from 2010
This article was originally published by CorrectionsOne.com Editor’s note: This article is part of the 2010 CorrectionsOne End of the Year Report. Please visit the main page for the end of the year report here. Several correctional health care news stories top the list as we near the end of the ... Read More about Top Correctional Health Care News from 2010