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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Episode 51 of Correctional Nursing Today is our monthly news round-up for February, 2013. Panelists include Gene Lincoln, BSN, MS, CCHP, Senior Manager, Clinical Education and Training for Corizon Health, Inc. and Gail Normandin-Carpio, a correctional nurse consultant with administrative, and corporate-level experience in prison, jail and juvenile systems mainly in the north eastern states. Our first story is about…
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Michelle E. Dunwoody, BSN, MS, WHNP-C, Captain, United States Public Health Service and Chief Nurse for the Federal Bureau of Prisons talks about correctional nursing in the federal system in this episode. She is a Board Certified Women’s Health/OB-GYN Nurse Practitioner with over 23 years of nursing experience in a variety of roles. She served seven years as an Army…
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