Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize, understand, manage, and use emotions effectively—both one’s own and others’. It includes five key…
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Nursing Practice
Correctional Nurse Professional Practice Update: The New ANA Code of Ethics Provision 2
Last month we began our review of the new 2025 Code of Ethics for Nurses published by the American Nurses…
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Correctional Nurse Clinical Practice Update: Dental Concepts VI, Teaching Dental Self-Care
Our patients may enter the correctional facility in poor dental health, but they don’t have to leave that way. Once…
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Correctional Nurse Clinical Practice Update: Dental Concepts V, Dental Clues to Medical Conditions
Not only is understanding dental health important for correctional nurses as they are typically the first healthcare professional responding to…
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Man-Down Emergencies: Are You Ready?
Emergency response, a fact of life in healthcare, has some interesting aspects to consider in a custody setting. Correctional nurses…
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Correctional Nurse Clinical Practice Update: Dental Concepts IV, Dental Triage: What is an Emergency?
Correctional nurses regularly make decisions about the need for emergency treatment of dental conditions. These decisions occur during the triage…
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