If you use informational handouts as a primary education method for your chronic care clinics or nurse sick calls, you may be assuming that your patients understand when they do not. Misinformation or lack of information can sabotage your efforts to improve the health of the patients you ... Read More about Are Your Education Materials Patient-Friendly?
The Correctional Nurse
Three Ways to Use Patient Grievances to Improve Health Care
Grievances are a standard mechanism for patients in a correctional facility to request changes and express discontent with a variety of conditions of confinement such as housing, officer treatment, and inadequate healthcare. Although many in correctional health care see the grievance process ... Read More about Three Ways to Use Patient Grievances to Improve Health Care
Abdominal Assessment: Special Maneuvers
This content is based upon The Correctional Nurse Educator class entitled Abdominal Assessment: Basic Assessment for the Correctional Nurse. This is a little bonus for those of you who are following the posts in our Abdominal Assessment series - a listing with explanations of some Special ... Read More about Abdominal Assessment: Special Maneuvers
Code of Ethics for Correctional Nurses
In 2014, CorrectionalNurse.Net reviewed the changes to the Nurse's Code of Ethics proposed at that time by the American Nurses Association (ANA). The revisions were, indeed, accepted by the ANA with slight changes, and were published in 2015 as the second edition to ANA's Code of Ethics for Nurses ... Read More about Code of Ethics for Correctional Nurses
A New Year Reading List
This post was first published by my friend and colleague Lorry Schoenly in 2014. I have updated it most recently for 2022, but interestingly, there is not much new in print for our specialty of Correctional Nursing. The Essentials still remains a classic and I am happy to say that our Correctional ... Read More about A New Year Reading List