As we turn our hearts and minds toward a new year, a fresh start, I wanted to share with you the five most-read Correctional Nurse.Net posts during 2021. The Abdominal series seems to have been the most popular overall, with more than 28,000 reads last year! #1 – Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Abdominal Assessment – Percussion In this post, we…
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Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Dental Complaints
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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Correctional Nursing Practice Update: What Causes Clinical Error?
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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