In this episode, Lorry talks with Chris Cicuto, PharmD, Clinical Staff Pharmacist with Diamond Pharmacy. He presented a session on Drugs of Abuse: Not Always the Usual Suspects at the NCCHC Spring Conference on Correctional Health Care in Minneapolis on April 21-24, 2018. A drug of abuse is one that is taken for non-medical reasons – usually to alter mood….
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Understanding Your Patients: The Inmate Subculture
Understanding your patient’s life situation and cultural influences can help you be an effective nurse whatever patient population you care for. Recognizing the social and economic framework in which incarcerated patients live each day can help you be successful as a correctional nurse. Prisonization In another post, I discussed the criminal lifestyle. This is described as the mindset and influences…
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The Elephant in the Jail: Tackling the Challenge of Substance Misuse (Podcast 144)
In this episode, Lorry talks with Dawn Noggle, PhD, CCHP, Grant Phillips, MD, CCHP, and Rebecca Quince, MBA, CCHP, from Maricopa County Correctional Health Services about their work in reducing substance misuse among their patient population. Dr. Noggle is Mental Health Director, Dr. Phillips is Medical Director and Rebecca Quince is Business Integration and Technology Manager for the service. …
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