Kathy Wild, RN, MPA, CCHP, Deputy Agency Director for Correctional Health Services at the Orange County Heath Care Agency…
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Nursing Practice
Watch Those Kids! Juvenile Inmates in Adult Prisons
The recent Supreme Court decision on mandatory life sentencing for juveniles is a reminder to all of us that there…
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Eating Disorders Can Be Dangerous: Screen Your Inmate Patients
Incarcerated women have increased chances for eating disorders and they can be deadly. The in-custody death of a young anorexic…
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An Inside Look at Correctional Health Nursing: A Review
Correctional nursing is a specialty practice that gets little attention in mainstream nursing publications. That’s why I sit up and…
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When Nurses See Degrading Treatment: The ICN Position Statement on Care of Detainees and Prisoners
It was painful to read the account of practices in a Michigan Women’s Prison where inmates were required to submit…
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Correctional Nursing is Different: Research Report
Recent research on correctional nursing in Montana, published in the Journal of Correctional Health Care has some interesting things to…
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