Consider this situation: A detainee admitted two days ago was complaining of nausea and vomiting at 3 am. An officer called the medical unit requesting a nurse evaluation. The nurse, however, was busy getting meds ready for the 5 am court call. The officer called several times over the next 3 ... Read More about Rapid Assessment for Correctional Nurses
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Three Sources of Fast Correctional Nursing CE Hours for Recertification or Relicensure
Does this sound familiar? Notice arrives that your CCHP or CCHP-RN certification or your nursing license renewal is due next month. Plenty of time to get the required continuing education hours (CEs), right? The notice is set aside (if you are like me it gets printed and set on the pile on the right ... Read More about Three Sources of Fast Correctional Nursing CE Hours for Recertification or Relicensure
Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Chest Pain
Chest pain is a common complaint in the correctional environment, as it is in the larger community. We, perhaps, are better suited than our community colleagues to address complaints of chest pain, because we have the ability to monitor our patients closely. Many individuals ... Read More about Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Chest Pain
Correctional Nurse Tales from Jails and Prisons: It’s Not Always Detox
This is a Classic post that is just as pertinent today as it was when first written! Danielle Carbon, LPN, works in a county jail with an average daily census of 1300. Here is her correctional nursing tale. The Background I've been working as a correctional nurse in a county jail ... Read More about Correctional Nurse Tales from Jails and Prisons: It’s Not Always Detox
Correctional Nursing in This Time of Pandemic
These comments are based upon those included in our April Monthly Newsletter - The Correctional Nurse - that is sent out to all subscribers of CorrectionalNurse.Net, The Correctional Nurse Educator and Nursing Behind the Wall. Subscriptions are free. It is notable that even in a few ... Read More about Correctional Nursing in This Time of Pandemic