This episode was recorded live from the national conference of the American Correctional Health Services Association (ACHSA) in San Antonio, TX. The episode includes commentary from regular panelist, Catherine Knox, MN, RN, CCHP-RN, an independent consultant with nursing and leadership experience in the Oregon Department of Corrections, the Washington Department of Corrections, and California Prison Health Care Services. Also commenting…
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An Inside Look at Correctional Health Nursing: A Review
Correctional nursing is a specialty practice that gets little attention in mainstream nursing publications. That’s why I sit up and take notice when an article about our practice is published in Nursing2012, Kudos to Lippincott Williams and Wilkins for publishing the article “An Inside Look at Correctional Health Nursing” by Lois Gerber, a guardian ad litem from Florida. You can…
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When Nurses See Degrading Treatment: The ICN Position Statement on Care of Detainees and Prisoners
It was painful to read the account of practices in a Michigan Women’s Prison where inmates were required to submit to a vaginal inspection for drug smuggling or not be permitted to receive visitors. According to the news story “Michigan’s is the only prison system in the nation to routinely use such searches as a matter of policy”. This story…
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