Can an understanding of your inmate’s traumatic past help with current management issues? You bet! According to Stephanie S. Covington, Ph.D., L.C.S.W, you can keep things under control by looking behind erratic behavior and violent outbursts to see what is going on inside an inmate’s thought world. Dr. Covington is the author of several books on the subject of trauma-informed…
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Improve Health Care to Save Money? Who Knew?
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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SBAR Improves Clinical Communication
My last post talked about improving clinical communications in corrections and mentioned the SBAR format. I thought I’d add a couple videos to give a poor example and one that is improved with the SBAR format. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qHCmJzJiAo] If I were listening to this report, I”d be wondering when he was going to get to the point of the call. Always…
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