When I started in correctional nursing 8 years ago it was like entering a brave new world. Truth be told, I didn’t even know nurses worked in jails and prisons until I answered an online advertisement for the NJ prison system. Many of you have similar stories of becoming correctional nurses ‘accidently’. None of us grew up telling anyone we…
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This is a special edition of Correctional Nursing Today coming to you live from the National Conference on Correctional Health Care in Las Vegas. JoRene Kerns, Vice President for Special Projects, and Fran Tompkins, Nurse Educator, at CorrectCare Solutions sit down with me during the conference to answer some listener and reader questions from the past few months. New Correctional…
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This episode of Correctional Nursing Today was recorded on location in beautiful Fajardo, Puerto Rico at the International Association of Forensic Nurses 20th Annual Scientific Assembly. We have just finished up a meeting of the Corrections Taskforce and several taskforce members discuss professional nursing practice in our specialty. Around the microphone are Denise Panosky, Taskforce Chair and members Deborah Shelton…
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