Panelists Catherine Knox and Johnnie Lambert join Lorry Schoenly in discussion this month’s correctional news. Catherine is a correctional nurse consultant from Portland Oregon with extensive background in correctional nursing and management in the Oregon, Washington and California Prison Systems. Johnnie is a correctional nurse and Vice-President, Clinical Operations, Policy and Accreditation with Armor Correctional Health Services, Inc. Our first…
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Correctional Nurse, Benjamin S Kanten, MBA, MSN, RN, CCHP-RN, shared the START process during a session at the 2013 NCCHC Spring Conference. Here are my notes from the session. Are you prepared to handle a mass casualty at your facility? Do you even know what would be considered a mass casualty in your setting? A mass casualty situation could be…
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W. Sue Chafin, DNP, FNP-BC, a board certified family nurse practitioner and nurse researcher from Mountain City, TN, talks about her research published in the February 2013 issue of Journal of Correctional Health Care titled – Nurse Retention in a Correctional Facility: A Study of the Relationship Between the Nurses’ Perceived Barriers and Benefits. This study was designed to evaluate…
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