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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The day shift nurse leaves the medication room door unlocked so she can get to the staff break room or the nurse’s station quickly. The evening shift nurse pre-pours all her medications for segregation rounds, even narcotics, although she takes the medication cart with her. The sick call nurse moved the patient’s chair to the side of his desk next…
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