Guest Jayne Russell, MEd., CCHP-A, talks about how correctional nurses can respond to sexual assault and the new Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards. According to reports from a recent Bureau of Justice Statistics survey of inmates in adult and juvenile facilities, 4% of state and federal prisoners and 3.2% of jail inmates reported one or more incidents of sexual…
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Johnnie Lambert, Vice-President, Clinical Operations, Policy and Accreditation with Armor Correctional Health Services and Gayle Burrow, a correctional nurse consultant with extensive experience as Director of Correctional Health at Multnomah County Detention Center in Portland, Oregon join Lorry to discuss this month’s correctional healthcare news. Story #1: Idaho Officials Say Prison Suicide Attempts are Up Let’s start off with this…
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Capt. Nicholas Makrides, DMD, MA, MPH, Chief Dentist at the Federal Bureau of Prisons/ US Public Health Service answers questions correctional nurses have about dental issues. What should nurses look for in a dental screening? A screening examination is to be brief. What you want to know is: Is the patient in pain, does he or she have an active…
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