Patricia Blair, JD, MSN, CCHP, a nurse attorney from Houston, TX, talks about nursing licensure issues and the appropriate response to a Board of Nursing inquiry on this episode of Correctional Nursing Today. Dr. Blair’s law firm specializes in health law, including nursing, and guardianship law. She also serves on the National Commission on Correctional Health Care board of directors…
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Does your personality affect your satisfaction in a particular nursing specialty? Although more research is needed, there is some indication that nurses are drawn to a particular specialty based on personality traits. This post will discuss The Big Five Personality Traits and Correctional Nursing Psychologists have been studying human personality for decades and have settled on a model of five key…
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Laura Mish, RN, works in a medium security prison with an average daily population of 3300 male inmates. Here is her correctional nursing tales from Jails and prisons. The Background Having been a correctional nurse at a state prison for nearly 16 years, I have many stories to tell. Some are sad, some are funny, and then there are those…
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