This year’s National Nurses Week theme is “Nurses: Trusted to Care”. I’m always excited to see what the year’s Nurses Week theme is and how it might relate to our specialty practice. This year is no exception. Correctional Nurses: Trusted to Care Correctional Nurses: Trusted to Care Trusted For many years nurses have topped the list of professionals most trusted by…
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An example of a trauma informed substance abuse program [youtube=http://youtu.be/y-042I7NeD8]
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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