Does this sound familiar? Notice arrives that your CCHP or CCHP-RN certification or your nursing license renewal is due next…
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Nursing Practice
Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Chest Pain
Chest pain is a common complaint in the correctional environment, as it is in the larger community. We, perhaps, are better…
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Correctional Nursing in This Time of Pandemic
These comments are based upon those included in our April Monthly Newsletter – The Correctional Nurse – that is sent…
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Correctional Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice
For the last twelve months I have been honored to be a part of the American Nurses Association workgroup that…
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Pender’s Model Could Transform Your Chronic Care Clinic – Honest!
Could the HPM be helpful in your Chronic Care Clinic (CCC)? A major underpinning of the HPM is the assumption that individuals value growth and seek improvement in their health status. Self-efficacy, a belief in the ability to succeed, is an important part of the model. The nurse, as well as the patient, needs to believe that positive change is possible.
Peplau’s Theory of Interpersonal Relations – Could This Really Work in Correctional Nursing?
What is attractive about Peplau’s theory of nursing practice is that it focuses on the dynamics of the nurse-patient relationship and sees the nurse’s role as a therapeutic force in that relationship.