Correctional nurses face a daily struggle to care for their patients while delivering much-needed healthcare in a restricted environment. How can correctional nurses truly care for and care about their patient population? This is a question many of us in the specialty deeply consider as we try to elevate the professional status of correctional nursing. Caring has been described as…
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One in ten doctors and nurses abuse drugs or alcohol. Is this surprising to you? It was to me when I first read it. Although this number (10-15%) is equivalent to abuse rates in the general public, those of us in healthcare have a special responsibility to be able to think and act clearly as we are responsible for providing…
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The radio calls a 10-99, Medical Emergency on unit 6-B. Arriving with the emergency bag, the nurse finds a crime scene in full swing. A person is hanging from a makeshift bed linen noose creatively tied around the upper bunk slats. Hanging is the most common form of successful suicide in corrections, and the actions taken in the first few…
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