Scott Eliason, MD, CCHP-MH, Regional Psychiatric Director for Idaho through Corizon Correctional Health Care talks about polydipsia, its various manifestations, and management in the correctional setting. He presented this topic along with Mark Fleming, PhD, CCHP-MH at the 2015 NCCHC Spring Conference on Correctional Health Care in New Orleans, April 11-14. Psychogenic polydipsia, excessive fluid-seeking, is a life-threatening condition that is more common…
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Lori Roscoe, PhD, MSN, CCHP-RN, is a Nurse Practitioner and Correctional Health Consultant in Atlanta, GA. This post is based on her session “Diabetes Primer for the Correctional Nurse” that occurred at the 2015 NCCHC Spring Conference on Correctional Health Care. If you have been in correctional nursing for a while, you may have noticed an increase in the number…
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Mary Muse, MS, RN, CCHP-RN, CCHP-A, is Nursing Director, Bureau of Health Services, Wisconsin Department of Corrections. This podcast is based on the Preconference Seminar “Nurses’ Scope of Practice and Delegation Authority” that occurred at the 2015 NCCHC Spring Conference on Correctional Health Care in New Orleans, April 11-14, 2015. The National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) recently published…
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