Understanding your patient’s life perspective can help you be an effective nurse whatever patient population you care for. Recognizing the mental framework of correctional patients is vital to both effectiveness and safety. One way to better comprehend prisoner patients is by grasping the concept of the criminal lifestyle. Not All Inmates are Criminals While not all our patients are criminals,…
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http://traffic.libsyn.com/cornrstdy/CNT142-Nursing_Students.mp3 Lorry talks with Kathleen S. Ashton, PhD, RN, CNE, Assistant Professor at Duke University School of Nursing in Durham, North Carolina. Dr. Ashton penned an article published in the Journal of Nursing Education titled “Teaching Nursing Students to Care for Patients Who are Inmates.” She became interested in the subject as she visited clinical settings where Duke nursing…
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I was raised on Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle novels and still find shows like Elementary and Sherlock captivating. In fact, it is the detective work inherent in health care assessment and diagnosis that drew me to this profession and still keeps me interested some three decades later. Oh, for the clarity of mind of Hercules Poirot and Sherlock…
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