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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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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Gina over at the CodeBlog recently interviewed me about correctional nurse life. She asked some interesting questions about what we do in corrections and how care is organized. Check out the post for the full interview. She is interviewing nurses working in unusual specialties for an ongoing series. Correctional Nursing does qualify as an unusual specialty. Very few children say…
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