Peer Review for Nurses? Many correctional health care settings are gearing up for correctional nursing peer review as NCCHC implements new accreditation standards this month. In this episode correctional nurse experts Catherine Knox, Kathy Page, Becky Pinney, and Pat Voermans join Lorry to discuss correctional nursing peer review and changes in the NCCHC accreditation standards for standard C-02 – Performance…
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Correctional nurses Margaret Collatt, Jeannie Chesney, and Susan Laffan, join Lorry to discuss the latest correctional health care news in this podcast. Briefing Paper: The Dangerous Use of Solitary Confinement in the US The ACLU recently published a briefing paper on the dangers of solitary confinement in US prisons. This has been a topic of interest for some time in…
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Joe Bouchard, corrections author and educator, is a librarian for the Michigan Department of Corrections. He joins Lorry to talk about contraband and what nursing staff, particularly new staff, need to know. Joe is well known in the corrections community as an expert on this topic. His book Wake Up and Smell the Contraband! is a popular training guide for…
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