This guest post by Mary Loos, BSN, MPH, shares her story of correctional nursing. Mary spent her correctional nursing career in the Multnomah County Health Department, providing care in the Multnomah County Jail System. Every person who discovers Corrections Health as a career has their own story to tell about how they got there. Mine? It started with a right turn…
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Kelly Ranson, MSN, PHN, CCHP, Chief Nurse Executive at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano, CA joins Lorry to discuss implementing diabetic self-care at her facility. Kelly recently graduated from the California State University MSN program. This project was part of her graduate studies. Tips for Making Change Happen It is not easy to change practice in traditional clinical settings…
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Just about every correctional nurse will tell you it is very different from traditional nursing. You can feel like you have been dropped into a foreign country where people are in strange outfits and speaking a strange language. Here’s the challenge of correctional nursing – stripped of the many supports that are standard in traditional settings such as a nursing…
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