Attending the Association of Health Care Journalists Conference this week has given many opportunities to consider the application of current health issues and trends to the correctional setting. A discussion of the Affordable Care Act by CMS Director Donald Berwick, MD, in a Newsmaker Briefing does not at first sound like something easily applied to health care in jails and…
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu7hxf9h5Xk] This video is a realistic presentation of nursing practice in a prison setting. Correctional health care is a nurse-run system. Much of the medical interventions and prescribing are done by nurse practitioners. Individuals in the corrections system have lived hard lives and can appear 10 years older than their chronologic age. Up to 40% can have Hepatitis C due…
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LIFE IN PRISON: MEDICAL COMPASSIONATE RELEASE Click on the title about to see a short video showing various sides of the issue of compassionate release of medically disabled inmates in the California Prison System. Do you think inmates with severe disease should be moved to community facilities for care? Post your thoughts in the comments section.