I recently spent a week with my Mom. When I visit we always pull out a jigsaw puzzle to set while we reminisce and chat about our extended family. As we moved through our usual ritual of sorting a pile of 500+ colorful oddly-shaped pieces of cardboard, I pondered how the many dilemmas of correctional nursing practice can seem like…
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Another helpful correctional health care book was published this year. While definitely not beach reading, I have been digging into the various chapters over the last month and wanted to share my findings. Correctional Health Care: Practice, Administration, and Law was edited by Fred Cohen, a recognized expert in correctional law. Fred recruited chapter authors who are also experts in…
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I am trying to remember the first time I came across the advice to be firm, fair, and consistent with inmate patients. It may have been during my orientation for my first position in corrections. While the terms are used in correctional officer, manager, and education literature, I have not seen these golden principles in the nursing literature on patient…
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