Melissa Caldwell, PhD, a clinical psychologist and Director of Mental Health Services for Advanced Correctional Healthcare in Peoria, IL, shares tips for dealing with escalating patient anger or frustration. Do you practice Mental Health Standard Precautions at work? Dr. Caldwell relates this ... Read More about De-Escalating Critical Incidents (#87 Podcast)
The Correctional Nurse
I Found Correctional Nursing and I Love it!
This guest post is written by Sarah Medved, a senior nursing student at Grand Canyon University. She shares her story of finding correctional nursing as a specialty. Nearing graduation, I get a lot of congratulations and questions about where I want to work. I usually get raised eyebrows when I ... Read More about I Found Correctional Nursing and I Love it!
November 2014 News Round-Up (podcast)
Correctional nurse experts C.J. Young and Sue Lane join Lorry to discuss the latest correctional health care news. Ohio Prison Inmate Being Treated for Leprosy The Ohio prison system recently had an inmate diagnosed with leprosy. He was first treated for a bacterial skin infection. When it worsened, ... Read More about November 2014 News Round-Up (podcast)
Correctional Nurse Legal Briefs: Understanding Professional Liability
This post is part of a continuing series on legal issues important to correctional nurses. Find other topics in the series here. From my case files: A nurse hears a man down code called overhead while returning from providing sick call in one of the housing units. When she arrives at the scene ... Read More about Correctional Nurse Legal Briefs: Understanding Professional Liability
Caring Within The Culture of Incarceration (podcast)
Dr. Stacy Christensen, a nursing professor at the Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, CT, talks about her work with incarcerated women in the Connecticut State Prison System and her article about the application of Leininger’s theory of Culture Care in the correctional setting. ... Read More about Caring Within The Culture of Incarceration (podcast)