ATTRIBUTES NECESSARY FOR EFFECTIVE PATIENT ADVOCACY Clear Communication Communication is always an area of potential misunderstanding, and especially so when…
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Nursing Practice
Patient Advocacy for Correctional Nurses: Core Values
The American Nurses Association (ANA) clearly identifies a professional nursing responsibility to protect the rights of patients through patient advocacy. …
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Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Water Intoxication
Can you really get too much water? Based on the current literature encouraging people to hydrate, hydrate, hydrate, you wouldn’t…
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Correctional Nursing: A Heart and a Mind
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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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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