Aleksander Shalshin, MD, CCHP, former Medical Director for the New York City Department of Health for Correctional Health, joins Lorry for a conversation about the ethical challenges of correctional health care practice. Dr. Shalshin discovered correctional practice during his medical education when he completed a fellowship on Riker’s Island, the main facility of the New York City jail system. While…
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Lorry discusses current correctional health care news with correctional nurse experts Gayle Burrow, Johnnie Lambert, and Denise Rahaman. News stories this month hit all the major issues in correctional health care practice – an aging population, high rates of mental illness, and addiction. Kentucky jail using new drug treatment for inmates addicted to opioids CBS news posted a story about…
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Lorry talks with Ian Rummery the Prison and Offender Management Nurse for HMP (Her Majesty’s Prison) Jamestown on the remote island of St Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. Ian is a transplant to the island from Australia and also works as a Community Psychiatric Nurse with the population there. It was his mental health work that brought him into…
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