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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Catherine Knox, Sue Lane, and Kim Pearson join Lorry for this last news roundup of 2015. News Items Hepatitis C Screening of Prison Inmates Would Benefit Wider Community, Be Cost-Effective Our first story is about Hepatitis C Screening of inmates. There is much in the news about treating Hepatitis C now that some effective agents have hit the market. This…
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