This episode’s guest is Margaret Noonan, Statistician with the US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics in Washington DC. She’s the program manager for the Deaths in Custody Reporting Program at BJS. The program began in 2000 with the passage of the Deaths in Custody Reporting Act, which tasked BJS with collecting deaths occurring in jails, prisons and the…
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Can We Talk? Communication and the Correctional Nurse
Communication is a key component of delivering correctional healthcare. Correctional nurses must overcome many communication barriers in order to manage patient care in a jail or prison. Various communication networks are necessary. Nurses must communicate well with other nurses, among the healthcare disciplines and with custody officers to accomplish paitent goals. Guest for this program is Nicole Heffner, BSN, RN,…
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Risky Business: Pre-Pour Meds in Jails and Prisons
The prison is on lock-down due to a suspicious inmate death. Cell searches are underway. The lock-down is expected to last several days and inmate movement is extremely limited. Medications need to be delivered cell-side. This might have been manageable, if not time consuming, if the prison was new enough to have elevators to the upper levels. However, in this…
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