Dental conditions can be a great concern for correctional nurses, yet most received little or no training about dental conditions in nursing school. Most traditional nursing positions don’t involve dental assessments and so many nurses enter the correctional specialty unprepared. Why Do Correctional Nurses Need to Know How to Complete a Dental Assessment? Most often, the first person an incarcerated…
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How easy it is to quickly blame the actions of staff as the cause of a clinical error. After all, most errors come down to a specific staff member missing an important assessment finding or miscalculating a medication dose. Unfortunately, clinical events are rarely that simple and, when investigated, are more often the result of a combination of system, process,…
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Did you know you were courageous in accepting the challenge to work with our incarcerated patient population and in our locked-in work environment? Many nurses are not that bold. They do not seek out experiences that involve security escorts, the clanging of automatic barred doors, or the need to have their personal belongings searched when entering and leaving the workplace….
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