Nurses are the healthcare professionals most frequently performing health screening during intake and booking. Since the initial screening is meant to reveal the need for immediate attention, nurses must know what findings indicate an urgent concern. A systematic process for dental screening will direct appropriate attention to areas of potential concern. Subjective A person’s medical and dental history holds…
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Providing health care to incarcerated patients is different than other types of nursing practice; yet nursing principles remain the same. Nurses entering the world of correctional practice can have apprehensions and misconceptions about the patient population and expectations of their practice. Here is an overview of the similarities and differences of correctional nursing practice as compared to a traditional practice…
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Resilience is the ability to bounce back or cope successfully despite adversity. Moral resilience is the capacity of the person to preserve or restore integrity in response to moral adversity. It is the ability and willingness to speak, and take right and good actions in the face of moral/ethical adversity. At no time in our Correctional Nursing history was resilience,…
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