(Podcast Episode 120) Johnnie Lambert, Sue Smith, and Kathy Wild join Lorry to discuss recent correctional health care new. Nurses thrust into guard duty at federal prisons USA Today is reporting that nurses, physical therapists and other senior medical staffers in the Federal Bureau of Prisons are being routinely assigned officer duties and other security-related shifts to fill chronic personnel…
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Jersey correctional nurses Denise Rahaman and Susan Laffan join Lorry to discuss current correctional healthcare news items on this episode of Correctional Nursing Today. Lockdowns Disrupting Access to Mental Health Care for Inmates at Ottawa Jail Lockdowns and security issues in one Canadian jail are disrupting psychiatrist access to mentally ill inmates. The story indicates that an estimated 70% of…
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Pratap Narayan, MD, a forensic psychiatrist with extensive experience in the criminal justice system joins Lorry in this episode to talk about dealing with psychopathic patients. He currently lives and works in California. Originally from India, Dr. Narayan migrated to the US early in his career and completed fellowships in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychiatric Research. Psychopath is a common label…
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