Does this sound familiar? Notice arrives that your CCHP or CCHP-RN certification or your nursing license renewal is due next month. Plenty of time to get the required continuing education hours (CEs), right? The notice is set aside (if you are like me it gets printed and set on the pile on the right side of my desk) and the…
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Chest pain is a common complaint in the correctional environment, as it is in the larger community. We, perhaps, are better suited than our community colleagues to address complaints of chest pain, because we have the ability to monitor our patients closely. Many individuals today are aware that chest pain may signal a potentially life-threatening condition and quickly bring it to our…
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This is a Classic post that is just as pertinent today as it was when first written! Danielle Carbon, LPN, works in a county jail with an average daily census of 1300. Here is her correctional nursing tale. The Background I’ve been working as a correctional nurse in a county jail for 8 years. One phrase that seems to come…
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