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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Nursing Practice
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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Charting Tips for Correctional Nurses
As nurses, we can never have too many reminders to chart carefully. Correctional nurses should be on even higher alert….
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Risky Business: Pre-Pour Meds in Jails and Prisons
The prison is on lock-down due to a suspicious inmate death. Cell searches are underway. The lock-down is expected to…
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