This month’s news round-up was recorded live at the National Commission on Correctional Health Care Spring Conference and is the FaceBook Friend’s edition. Correctional Suicides – Doing Time Takes Its Toll All of us in corrections are aware of the high suicide rate among our inmates, but reports of increased suicide among corrections officers are alarming the community. We work…
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Possibly more than any other nursing specialty, correctional nursing practice is lawsuit-prone. Our patient population, already in the criminal justice system, frequently seeks legal action when they feel they have not received rightful healthcare. Correctional nurse experts Kathy Wild, RN, MPA, CCHP and Royanne Schissel, RN, CCHP, have decades of experience in the specialty as staff nurses, managers, and legal…
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Live at the American Correctional Health Services Association National Conference in historic Philadelphia, panelists Inez Tann, Denise Panosky, Deborah Shelton,Catherine Knox, Sue Smith, Gayle Burrow, and JoRene Kerns discuss this month’s top correctional health care news stories. As states cut mental health care funding, prisons are becoming asylums In past episodes we have discussed the growing mental health issue in…
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