Scott Eliason, MD, CCHP-MH, Regional Psychiatric Director for Idaho through Corizon Correctional Health Care talks about polydipsia, its various manifestations, and management in the correctional setting. He presented this topic along with Mark Fleming, PhD, CCHP-MH at the 2015 NCCHC Spring Conference on Correctional Health Care in New Orleans, April 11-14. Psychogenic polydipsia, excessive fluid-seeking, is a life-threatening condition that is more common…
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Mary Muse, MS, RN, CCHP-RN, CCHP-A, is Nursing Director, Bureau of Health Services, Wisconsin Department of Corrections. This podcast is based on the Preconference Seminar “Nurses’ Scope of Practice and Delegation Authority” that occurred at the 2015 NCCHC Spring Conference on Correctional Health Care in New Orleans, April 11-14, 2015. The National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) recently published…
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Gayle Burrow and Denise Rahaman return to talk about this month’s correctional health care news items*. Medical Problems Of State And Federal Prisoners And Jail Inmates, 2011-12 Our first news item is the publication of a US Department of Justice special report on the Medical Problems of State and Federal Prisoners and Jail Inmates, 2011-12. This is a long awaited…
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