Mary Muse, Director of Nursing for the Wisconsin Department of Corrections and ANA representative on the National Commission on Correctional Health Care Board of Directors shares her thoughts on the future of correctional nursing in this Correctional Nursing Today episode. Mary has extensive background in both jail and prison nursing and is active in the correctional nursing community. She will…
Read More
The American Nurses Association (ANA) designated 2015 as the Year of Ethics for American Nurses. I have personally designated 2016 as the Year of Ethics for Correctional Nurses. This year I will be blogging regularly about the Code as I write a book to help correctional nurses apply the Code of Ethics in our challenging setting. So, let’s start by…
Read More
David Turner, RN, works in a maximum security receiving facility with an average daily population of 1600 male inmates. Here is his Correctional Nurse Tales from Jails and Prisons: Nurse Radar Correctional Nurse Tales from Jails and Prisons: Nurse Radar The Background I spent the first 20+ years of my nursing career in the Emergency Department (ED) – a role…
Read More