Correctional nurses must quickly develop a trust relationship with their patients in order to collect accurate data and effectively evaluate symptoms and requests. Yet, many incarcerated persons distrust almost everyone. They may have spent their lives using deceit and coercion to order their world, ... Read More about Correctional Nurse Practice Update: Four Ways to Build a Trust Relationship with Incarcerated Patients
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Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Keep on Person Medication Tips
A patient arrives at the medication window one morning with an empty blister pack of Truvada. It is only ten days since he received a month’s supply. He is evasive initially about why they are already gone. After some questioning, the nurse discovers that Truvada brings a high price on the prison ... Read More about Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Keep on Person Medication Tips
Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Women’s Health
There has been a significant change in the involvement of women with the criminal justice system over the last 20 years. This has been attributed to greater law enforcement efforts, more stringent drug sentencing laws, and post-arrest reentry barriers that only affect women. Between 1980 and ... Read More about Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Women’s Health
Five Top Posts of 2021
As we turn our hearts and minds toward a new year, a fresh start, I wanted to share with you the five most-read Correctional Nurse.Net posts during 2021. The Abdominal series seems to have been the most popular overall, with more than 28,000 reads last year! #1 - Correctional Nurse Clinical ... Read More about Five Top Posts of 2021
Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Dental Complaints
Dental conditions can be a great concern for correctional nurses, yet most received little or no training about dental conditions in nursing school. Most traditional nursing positions don’t involve dental assessments and so many nurses enter the correctional specialty unprepared. Why Do ... Read More about Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Dental Complaints