In this month’s correctional healthcare news round-up Lorry Schoenly talks with regular panelists, Catherine Knox and Sue Smith, about aging and disability issues in correctional healthcare. Catherine is an independent consultant with nursing and leadership experience in the Oregon Department of Corrections, the Washington Department of Corrections, and California Prison Health Care Services. Sue Smith also has a long history…
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This episode’s guest is Margaret Noonan, Statistician with the US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics in Washington DC. She’s the program manager for the Deaths in Custody Reporting Program at BJS. The program began in 2000 with the passage of the Deaths in Custody Reporting Act, which tasked BJS with collecting deaths occurring in jails, prisons and the…
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Communication is a key component of delivering correctional healthcare. Correctional nurses must overcome many communication barriers in order to manage patient care in a jail or prison. Various communication networks are necessary. Nurses must communicate well with other nurses, among the healthcare disciplines and with custody officers to accomplish paitent goals. Guest for this program is Nicole Heffner, BSN, RN,…
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