Provision 2: The nurse’s primary commitment is to the patient, whether an individual, family, group, community, or population. Having a primary commitment to the patient means stepping up to collaborate with the healthcare team and other professionals to solve unmet health needs. This can be a dangerous minefield for nurses working in corrections. Consider this situation I discussed in a…
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If you are new to the blog, you may not know that I was not always a correctional nurse. No, I started nursing in the 1980’s like many new graduates – on a med/surg floor of an urban hospital learning how to manage 20 patients on the night shift. I was young and ambitious back in those days and had…
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It is Monday morning and the health services administrator of a small rural jail is investigating an unexpected death over the weekend. The patient had just been seen on Friday afternoon by the medical director for heart palpitations and lethargy. He said he was thirsty but didn’t like the taste of the water in his cell. After a physical assessment…
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