The American Nurses Association (ANA) clearly identifies a professional nursing responsibility to protect the rights of patients through patient advocacy. In addition, the ANA Code of Ethics states that all nurses must care for patients “with compassion and respect for the inherent dignity, ... Read More about Patient Advocacy for Correctional Nurses: Core Values
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Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Water Intoxication
Can you really get too much water? Based on the current literature encouraging people to hydrate, hydrate, hydrate, you wouldn't think so. However, we need to be aware that some of our patients are dying from too much water. Here are just two examples from a Michigan prison and from the San Diego ... Read More about Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Water Intoxication
Correctional Nursing: A Heart and a Mind
Correctional nursing is the delivery of evidence-based nursing to protect, promote, and optimize health and abilities; prevent illness and injury; facilitate healing; alleviate suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response with care and respect; and advocate for individuals, ... Read More about Correctional Nursing: A Heart and a Mind
Correctional Nurse Professional Practice Update: The Sharp End and Blunt End of Clinical Error
A 33 year old male patient from a maximum security state prison was admitted to a community hospital with flank pain and hematuria. His INR was discovered to be 8.2 (therapeutic range 2-3). His medical history included deep vein thrombus resulting from Protein S deficiency. A medication error ... Read More about Correctional Nurse Professional Practice Update: The Sharp End and Blunt End of Clinical Error
THREE CLINICAL JUDGMENT ERRORS TO AVOID
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 ... Read More about THREE CLINICAL JUDGMENT ERRORS TO AVOID