Guest for this episode is Gordon R. Bouchard, RN, BSN, CCHP, Director of Nursing Services, RI Department of Corrections. Gordon has been a correctional nurse for over 18 years and has been Director of Nursing Services at the Rhode Island Department of Corrections since 2008. Maintaining perspective ... Read More about Maintaining Perspective with Inmate Patients

This episode was recorded live from the national conference of the American Correctional Health Services Association (ACHSA) in San Antonio, TX. The episode includes commentary from regular panelist, Catherine Knox, MN, RN, CCHP-RN, an independent consultant with nursing and leadership experience in ... Read More about Correctional Health Care News Round Up for April 2012

Barbara Curtis, MSN, RN, Director of Nursing Service, Washington State Department of Corrections talks about the high prevalence of traumatic brain injury in the correctional patient population and responses to the condition. Barbara has been an RN for over 30 years with 20 of those in emergency ... Read More about Tips for Dealing with Traumatic Brain Injury

In this month’s correctional healthcare news round-up Lorry Schoenly talks with regular panelists, Catherine Knox and Sue Smith, about aging and disability issues in correctional healthcare. Catherine is an independent consultant with nursing and leadership experience in the Oregon Department of ... Read More about Correctional Health Care News Round-Up for March 2012

This episode's guest is Margaret Noonan, Statistician with the US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics in Washington DC. She’s the program manager for the Deaths in Custody Reporting Program at BJS. The program began in 2000 with the passage of the Deaths in Custody Reporting Act, ... Read More about Deaths in Custody and Correctional Health Care