Rebekah Haggard, MD, CHCQM, CCHP, Chief Quality Officer for Corizon Health in Nashville joins Lorry to talk about 10 high risk clinical practices that can derail your correctional practice. Through her extensive work in correctional health care risk management and patient safety Dr. Haggard developed a list of high risk practices that lead to clinical error and harm. These ten…
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CJ Young, Director of Nursing, Merrimack County Department of Corrections, Boscawen, NH, and Johnnie Lambert, correctional health care consultant, from Port Royal, SC, join Lorry to discuss recent correctional health care news. Number of Older Prisoners Grows Rapidly, Threatening to Drive Up Prison Health Costs Our first story is a report by the PEW Charitable Trusts about the rapidly growing…
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In this episode of Correctional Nursing Today, Sharen Barboza, PhD, CCHP-MH, joins Lorry to talk about a real occupational hazard when working in the criminal justice system – correctional stress. Dr Barboza is a consultant for correctional behavioral healthcare and the Vice President of Clinical Operations, Mental Health with MHM Services. She has a long history working in the correctional…
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