Matissa Sammons, CCHP, is Director of Certification at National Commission on Correctional Health Care. This post is based on her session “Your Next Steps in Professional Development: CCHP and Specialty Certifications” taking place at the 2015 National Conference on Correctional Health Care in Dallas, TX, October 17-21, 2015. Learn more about the conference and register HERE. Correctional health care is…
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Jamie Davis, a registered nurse and paramedic, discusses medication math and the help provided by his book – Med Math Simplified: Dosing Math Tricks for Students, Nurses and Paramedics. Jaime podcasts on the ProMed Network hosting shows like the Nursing Show podcast. Jaime is open about his own struggles with math concepts as a nursing student and how that helped…
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Medication administration is a common and frequent nursing task in most settings. There are plenty of opportunities to get things wrong….even when surrounded by fantastic resources like an onsite pharmacy and electronic information sources. Correctional nurses don’t often have these advantages, though, and medication administration can take on some interesting configurations. I’ve been in quite a few jails and prisons…
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