Peggy Minyard, BSN, MCHCA, CCHP-RN, the Regional Director of Nursing for the Alabama Prison System through Corizon Health, Inc, talks about successfully managing major wounds in the correctional setting. Wound management can be a challenge in any setting but the unique nature of corrections adds additional concerns. Although major wounds can be seen in both jails and prisons, the long-term…
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Subpoenas have been issued at your jail for an inmate claim that his continuing headaches were ignored and he was denied necessary treatment of his ‘serious medical need’. Your risk manager and legal counsel will be meeting with staff members involved in the case, including nurses involved in triaging the sick call slips. They are referring to this as a…
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In September, 2012, the MA Department of Corrections was ordered by a federal judge to provide sex-reassignment surgery for a transsexual prison inmate to meet 8th amendment rights to treatment to meet serious medical need. The inmate had been diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder (GID) and had failed other, more conservative, options such as hormonal therapy and psychotherapy. This court…
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