Correctional Nursing Today on BlogTalkRadio Lorry chats with Jackie Moore, PhD, RN, CCHP-A, CCHP-RN about the beginnings of organized correctional healthcare – she was there at the start! Dr. Moore has over 3 decades of nursing experience primarily in corrections and started the first correctional healthcare company providing services to facilities in the northeast. She writes, speaks and consults regularly…
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In this podcast, recorded in 2010, Lorry talks with correctional health care leader, Becky Pinney, MSN, RN, CCHP-RN. At that time she was President, Metropolitan Corrections Systems, for Prison Health Services with multi-facility responsibilities for PHS sites and regions. She, like so many of us, became a correctional nurse by ‘mistake’ when asked by a relative to work in a…
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An inmate arrives at medical with head lacerations from repetitive head banging against a cell wall. Another is found opening an abdominal wound stitched up after the trauma of a car-chase crash. Still another is admitted to the infirmary having sliced arms and chest with a razor in the shower. Self-injury behavior (SIB) is a misunderstood phenomenon that is quite…
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