Lorry talks with Anne Hanson, MD, about strides made to reduce suicide in corrections. At the time this podcast aired in May 2010, Dr. Hanson was the director of the University of Maryland’s forensic psychiatry fellowship program and chair of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law’s correctional psychiatry committee. She has worked in correctional psychiatry for almost twenty years….
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Talking About Jail Nursing
Originally Posted 04-14-2010: Becky Pinney, MSN, RN joins Lorry to provide an insider look at jail nursing. Becky is currently President, Metropolitan Corrections Systems, for Prison Health Services with multi-facility responsibilities for PHS sites and regions. In her current position, she is responsible for the oversight and direction to facility-based staff for the Rikers Island contracts and other DOC contracts….
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ANA Correctional Nursing Standards
Originally posted 03-19-10: Lorry talks with Catherine Knox, MS, RN, CCHP-RN, about the original revision of the Scope and Standards for Correctional Nursing. Catherine shares her start to correctional nursing practice over 30 years ago. Like so many of us, she is an ‘accidental’ correctional nurse. Don’t miss the interesting way she found out about our hidden specialty. Standards Define…
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