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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Mr. Jones, a man incarcerated two days ago when he turned himself in on a drug warrant, is admitted to the jail infirmary in respiratory distress. He had started vomiting earlier in the day. This persisted into the afternoon, when he also became sleepy and hard to arouse. Officers called medical and he was transported to the medical unit. Officers…
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