Several times a year Americans pause to thank our soldiers for defending our freedom and protecting us from harm. We acknowledge the sacrifices made by American soldiers to keep us free this Veterans Day. Many of those same soldiers who put themselves in harm’s way are now our patients in jails and prisons across the country. A survey by the…
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Are Your Education Materials Patient-Friendly?
If you use informational handouts as a primary education method for your chronic care clinics or nurse sick calls, you may be assuming that your patients understand when they do not. Misinformation or lack of information can sabotage your efforts to improve the health of the patients you serve. Health Literacy Health literacy, the ability to understand medical information, is…
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Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: When the Restraint Chair is Used
Addison was called to the holding area of the large city jail in which she worked to evaluate Mr. Jackson, a man who was just put into a restraint chair after banging his head against the concrete wall of his cell and refusing to follow the direction of the deputies. She arrived to find him secured to a padded metal…
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