This guest post is written by Sarah Medved, a senior nursing student at Grand Canyon University. She shares her story of finding correctional nursing as a specialty. Nearing graduation, I get a lot of congratulations and questions about where I want to work. I usually get raised eyebrows when I proudly state that I want to be a correctional nurse….
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Correctional nurse experts C.J. Young and Sue Lane join Lorry to discuss the latest correctional health care news. Ohio Prison Inmate Being Treated for Leprosy The Ohio prison system recently had an inmate diagnosed with leprosy. He was first treated for a bacterial skin infection. When it worsened, he was tested for leprosy. We discuss leprosy, the modern disease is…
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This post is part of a continuing series on legal issues important to correctional nurses. Find other topics in the series here. From my case files: A nurse hears a man down code called overhead while returning from providing sick call in one of the housing units. When she arrives at the scene she sees that the inmate is sprawled…
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