Patient Darcy came to the med line with his KOP medication card totally empty. The medication nurse was frustrated that he had not come last week so that an order could be placed before he was out of medication. She reminded him about the written instructions reviewed with him when he was started on ... Read More about Correctional Nurse Practice Update: Using the Teach-Back Method to Validate Patient Understanding
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Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Ectoparasites – Scabies
Human scabies is an intensely pruritic skin infestation caused by the host-specific mite Sarcoptes scabiei var hominis. Scabies is a global public health problem, affecting persons of all ages, races, and socioeconomic groups. Worldwide, an estimated 300 million cases occur annually. ... Read More about Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Ectoparasites – Scabies
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