Sue Lane, RN, CCHP and Sue Smith, MSN, RN, CCHP-RN join Lorry to talk about “Disaster Planning for Infectious Disease Outbreaks”. They presented this topic at the 2015 NCCHC Spring Conference on Correctional Health Care in New Orleans, April 11-14. Correctional facilities are prone to the rapid spread of infectious disease. The incarcerated patient population has a greater likelihood of being…
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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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