Inmates who seek to manipulate and control staff members use some common techniques to select their victims and start a con. How to work with inmate patients? Watch for these techniques. Be on guard for these behaviors in your inmate patients and don’t be surprised when one of these techniques is used on you. Inmates can intentionally target vulnerable staff…
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Dental Issues for Correctional Nurses
One of the first things I discovered when I entered correctional nursing was how little I knew about dental issues or conditions. I must have daydreamed through this section of nursing school, or maybe we just didn’t give enough attention to oral assessment and dental emergencies. In any case, correctional nurses need to understand dental conditions as we are often…
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Correctional Health Care News Round Up – May, 2012
This episode was recording during the spring Updates conference of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC), a multidisciplinary educational conference for those working in our specialty area. Host Lorry Schoenly and regular panelists Catherine Knox and Sue Smith are joined by Patricia Blair, PhD, LLM, JD, MSN, CCHP, Counselor & Attorney-at-Law from Tyler, TX. Patricia is nurse lawyer…
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