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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Is Prison Nursing for Me? (Podcast #3)
Margaret M. Collatt, BSN, RN, CCHP-RN/A, joined Lorry to talk about correctional nursing in the prison setting in this podcast from 2010. Margaret had nearly three decades of correctional healthcare experience at the time of the interview and was the Health Services Manager at the Oregon State Penitentiary for many years. In 2017 Margaret received the NCCHC Bernard P. Harrison Award of…
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Dealing with Emergencies
Originally Posted 02-09-2010: Lorry interviews Susan Laffan RN, CCHP-RN/A about how to handle emergency medical issues in a correctional facility. Susan has been a registered nurse for 28 years. She has worked in the ED for 28 years and correctional nursing for 18 years. She co-owns her own business that provides Infection Control programs to municipal employees and provides consulting…
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