Have you ever been asked what you do as a nurse and found yourself launching into a discussion of sick call and medication passes? It is easy to get lost in the weeds on our professional journey. That’s why it can be refreshing to periodically return to the defining qualities of the nursing profession to see the big picture. The…
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This guest post is written by Jaime Todd, MBA, LNHA. His bio is found at the end. An elderly inmate was brought into the medical unit of a medium security prison to be checked for injury after an altercation in one of the housing units. He looked older than his 62 years and seemed disoriented. The nurse was not sure…
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Lorry’s guest for this episode is Alexandra Wimberly, PhD, Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work in Baltimore. She and her colleague, Dr. Malitta Engstrom, published the article Stress, Substance Use, and Yoga in the Context of Community Reentry Following Incarceration in the January 2018 issue of the Journal of Correctional Health Care. http://traffic.libsyn.com/cornrstdy/CNT148_-_Yoga.mp3 Stress and…
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