It has been another great year here at CorrectionalNurse.Net. Thank you for your involvement and readership! In the past year, visitors to the site have increased by 35%. Correctional nursing is a growing specialty and I’m inspired by our increasing numbers and influence for good in the criminal justice system. As we close out 2015 this week, I thought you’d…
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Rebekah Haggard, MD, CHCQM, CCHP, Chief Quality Officer for Corizon Health in Nashville joins Lorry to talk about 10 high risk clinical practices that can derail your correctional practice. Through her extensive work in correctional health care risk management and patient safety Dr. Haggard developed a list of high risk practices that lead to clinical error and harm. These ten…
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Most of us work in jails and prisons by accident. We discovered the invisible world of correctional nursing through a job notice, a friend, or by necessity when other nursing jobs in our locale were scarce. I have yet to come across a correctional nurse who wanted to be one from childhood or remembered a parent commenting “I hope you…
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