Correctional nursing is the delivery of evidence-based nursing to protect, promote, and optimize health and abilities; prevent illness and injury;…
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Nursing Practice
THREE CLINICAL JUDGMENT ERRORS TO AVOID
Over time, as experience develops, clinical reasoning themes emerge that speed our decision-making for commonly reoccurring scenarios. We begin, for…
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Unhealthy Patient Relationships: Five Danger Signs
Prison and jail medical units are over-represented by female staff, creating a number of challenges to avoiding unhealthy patient relationships….
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Correctional Nurse Clinical Practice Update: Documentation IV
This post continues our series on Documentation for Correctional Nurses with a discussion of electronic health records. The Electronic Health…
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Correctional Nurse Clinical Practice Update: Documentation IIB
ELEMENTS OF GOOD DOCUMENTATION In our last post, we discussed nine Elements of Good Documentation. This week, we continue our…
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Correctional Nurse Clinical Practice Update: Documentation IIA
ELEMENTS OF GOOD DOCUMENTATION Write legibly Since the patient’s health record is the main method by which information about the…
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