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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Dr. Stacy Christensen, a nursing professor at the Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, CT, talks about her work with incarcerated women in the Connecticut State Prison System and her article about the application of Leininger’s theory of Culture Care in the correctional setting. Enhancing Nurses’ Ability to Care Within the Culture of Incarceration” was published in the June…
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Correctional nurse experts Mari Knight, Johnnie Lambert, Denise Rahaman, and Sue Smith join Lorry to discuss the hot topics in correctional healthcare news in this monthly round-up. Ohio prisons credit $10M savings to Medicaid changes Our first story comes from the Ohio prison system where they are reporting saving $10 million dollars in medical expenses this fiscal year through maximum…
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