Jennifer didn’t expect to be the patient in the clinic room this morning getting her ankle evaluated. Just a short time ago, she was administering medications from a cart on one of the housing pods at a county jail as she did most weekday mornings for the last 14 months. This pod was for protective ... Read More about Personal Safety During Medication Administration
The Correctional Nurse
Correctional Officers are from Mars; Nurses are from Venus –Communication in Corrections (podcast)
Do you feel like you are working in another world when you enter your correctional facility? Then this episode is for you. Art Beeler, former Warden of the Federal Medical Center in Butner, NC, shares his unique perspective on good communication in corrections between officers and nurses. Art has ... Read More about Correctional Officers are from Mars; Nurses are from Venus –Communication in Corrections (podcast)
Summer Fun: Top 5 Reasons You Know You Are A Correctional Nurse
Hope you are including some fun in your summer. Correctional nursing is stressful. Relaxation, humor, and entertainment go a long way to keeping us sane in our crazy world. Nurses have a wild sense of humor, probably generated from a need to break the intensity of our work helping those who are ... Read More about Summer Fun: Top 5 Reasons You Know You Are A Correctional Nurse
Correctional Nurse Guide to the Code of Ethics: Relationship to Patients
Jason has been working intake screening at a county jail for over a year now. He has seen some unusual conditions and participated in many an emergency situation, especially when he is on night shift. This Saturday night is uneventful and he finds himself, once again, performing an intake screening ... Read More about Correctional Nurse Guide to the Code of Ethics: Relationship to Patients
Art Therapy in the Prison Setting (podcast)
Sue Ethridge, an art therapist from North Carolina with over 25 years of experience working with a variety of patient populations, talks about the advantages of art for incarcerated patients. For many years she provided art therapy at the medical facility at the federal prison in Butner, North ... Read More about Art Therapy in the Prison Setting (podcast)