Don’t miss the signs of heat exhaustion and heat stroke in your patients being seen in sick call or as…
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Mental Health
Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Water Intoxication
Can you really get too much water? Based on the current literature encouraging people to hydrate, hydrate, hydrate, you wouldn’t…
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Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: When the Restraint Chair is Used
Addison was called to the holding area of the large city jail in which she worked to evaluate Mr. Jackson,…
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Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: How to Perform a Psychiatric Nursing Assessment
Serious mental illness affects at least one in four incarcerated individuals in the US according to a 2015 study by…
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Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Mental Health Conditions IV Psychosis
The Bureau of Justice reports that 15% of persons in prison and 24% of persons in jail reported having thought disturbances. Psychotic…
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Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Mental Health Conditions III Mood Disorders
Carrie is passing medications for the morning pill line in a large medium security state prison. One of the women…
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