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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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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Orders communicated verbally are common in all clinical settings with estimates as high as 20% of all inpatient ordering. Do you use verbal orders in your correctional facility? I’m confident that you do…..and probably more frequently than traditional settings, as prescribers are often less accessible in our secure environment. A Verbal Order (VO) has the following characteristics: communicated orally by…
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