Responding to Angry Inmates is not that easy for many correctional nurses. During a sick call visit for lower back pain, a patient begins shouting at the nurse that no one is helping him with his pain. “I need something stronger than these baby pills!”, he shouts as he stands up and puts his face in front of the nurse….
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Fran Tompkins, RN, MS, CCHP, CCN/M, is Nurse Training and Education Supervisor for Correct Care Solutions in Nashville, TN. This post is based on the session “Who’s Minding Your Patients? Understanding Licensed and Unlicensed Scopes of Practice” that she presented at the 2015 National Conference on Correctional Health Care in Dallas, TX. Scope of practice can be described as those…
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Tara Taylor, BSN, RN, CCHP, Regional Director of Nursing, and Mariann Burnetti-Atwell, PsyD, Director of Operations, Behavior Health Services, for the Missouri State Department of Corrections through Corizon Health, join Lorry to discuss lateral violence and bullying in nursing. They presented the session Lateral Violence in Nursing: How to Prevent Bullying and Create a Healthy Work Environment at the National…
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