I’m not sure why someone would want to know how to make a jail tattoo….except maybe some of our inmate patients, I guess. However, correctional nurses need to know that these procedures go on in jail and prison cells all over the country. The process is crude and the instruments are often unclean. That means plenty of potential for infection and the passing of blood born pathogens like Hepatitis C. Read my blog post on what nurses need to know about prison tattoos and watch this short video for more particulars (sorry about the short advertisement at the beginning).

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