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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Gail Normandin-Carpio and Denise Rahaman join Lorry to talk about top correctional health care news items for July, 2015. Callous and Cruel: Use of Force against Inmates with Mental Disabilities in US Jails and Prisons Our first story is a report out of Human Rights Watch about the use of force against inmates with mental disabilities in US Jails and Prisons….
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Erica Gerrity, Director and Founder of the Minnesota Prison Doula Project and Raelene Baker, a Certified Birth Doula and their Project Coordinator join Lorry to talk about the Minnesota Prison Doula Project, a prison‐based pregnancy, birth, and parenting program. They currently have 8 doulas in 3 facilities. Read more about their program on their blog. A doula is a trained…
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