Correctional Nursing Scope of Practice Issues
Correctional Nursing Today Podcast
Amanda White, BSN, RN, co-author of the research study “Exploring Scope of Practice Issues for Correctional Facility Nurses in Montana” talks about the results of her research into scope of practice issues for correctional nurses in the Montana Prison System. Amanda published her research with co-investigator Laura Larsson in the January, 2012 issue of Journal of Correctional Health Care. The full article is available here: http://jcx.sagepub.com/content/18/1/70.full.pdf . This research was completed during her undergraduate studies at Montana State University. Amanda works as an endoscopy...
info_outline
Correctional Health Care News Round Up - May, 2012
Correctional Nursing Today Podcast
This episode was recording during the spring Updates conference of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC), a multidisciplinary educational conference for those working in our specialty area. Host Lorry Schoenly and regular panelists Catherine Knox and Sue Smith are joined by Patricia Blair, PhD, LLM, JD, MSN, CCHP, Counselor & Attorney-at-Law from Tyler, TX. Patricia is nurse lawyer active in correctional nursing circles, often speaking at conferences such as the Updates. She, along with other panelists in this episode, is on the ANA Taskforce revising the Correctional...
info_outline
Maintaining Perspective with Inmate Patients
Correctional Nursing Today Podcast
Guest for this episode is Gordon R. Bouchard, RN, BSN, CCHP, Director of Nursing Services, RI Department of Corrections. Gordon has been a correctional nurse for over 18 years and has been Director of Nursing Services at the Rhode Island Department of Corrections since 2008. Maintaining perspective when dealing with inmate patients is a challenge; especially for nurses who have worked with this patient population over time. The characteristics of the patient group as well as pressures of the work environment can lead to labeling and discounting patient complaints. Nurses must be able to sort...
info_outline
Correctional Health Care News Round Up for April 2012
Correctional Nursing Today Podcast
This episode was recorded live from the national conference of the American Correctional Health Services Association (ACHSA) in San Antonio, TX. The episode includes commentary from regular panelist, Catherine Knox, MN, RN, CCHP-RN, an independent consultant with nursing and leadership experience in the Oregon Department of Corrections, the Washington Department of Corrections, and California Prison Health Care Services. Also commenting is Gayle Burrows, RN, BSN, MPH, CCHP, recently retired Director of Corrections Health at Multnomah County Detention Center in Portland, OR. Both panelists are...
info_outline
Tips for Dealing with Traumatic Brain Injury
Correctional Nursing Today Podcast
Barbara Curtis, MSN, RN, Director of Nursing Service, Washington State Department of Corrections talks about the high prevalence of traumatic brain injury in the correctional patient population and responses to the condition. Barbara has been an RN for over 30 years with 20 of those in emergency services both as administrator and clinician. She has been with correctional nursing for 11 years. Although an estimated 2% of the general population has sustained a TBI with continuing disability, a of studies in the inmate population indicates a prevalence of over 60% . It is suggested that...
info_outline
Correctional Health Care News Round-Up for March 2012
Correctional Nursing Today Podcast
In this month’s correctional healthcare news round-up Lorry Schoenly talks with regular panelists, Catherine Knox and Sue Smith, about aging and disability issues in correctional healthcare. Catherine is an independent consultant with nursing and leadership experience in the Oregon Department of Corrections, the Washington Department of Corrections, and California Prison Health Care Services. Sue Smith also has a long history in correctional nursing. She has worked in various capacities for the Ohio Dept of Rehabilitation and Correction including staff nurse, nurse administrator and nurse...
info_outline
Deaths in Custody and Correctional Health Care
Correctional Nursing Today Podcast
This episode's guest is Margaret Noonan, Statistician with the US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics in Washington DC. She’s the program manager for the Deaths in Custody Reporting Program at BJS. The program began in 2000 with the passage of the Deaths in Custody Reporting Act, which tasked BJS with collecting deaths occurring in jails, prisons and the process of arrest. The December 2011 report can be accessed at Margaret talks about how she got into criminal justice statistics after starting to pursue a medical career. As primary author of the Report - Prison and...
info_outline
Correctional Health Care News Round-Up for February, 2012: Mental Health Focus
Correctional Nursing Today Podcast
The February 2012 News Round Up focuses on Mental Health treatment in the correctional setting. Lorry is joined by regular panelist Sue Smith and guest Rosanne Harmon, a Psychiatric Mental Helath Nurse Practitioner with the Oregon Department of Corrections. In early February, MSNBC online reported on a huge jury award - $22 million - to a man held 22 months in Dona Ana County Jail in New Mexico. Most of that time he was held in solitary confinement and alleged to have been denied appropriate mental health care. The second story of interest is out of Summit County Ohio where the...
info_outline
Can We Talk? Communication and the Correctional Nurse
Correctional Nursing Today Podcast
Communication is a key component of delivering correctional healthcare. Correctional nurses must overcome many communication barriers in order to manage patient care in a jail or prison. Various communication networks are necessary. Nurses must communicate well with other nurses, among the healthcare disciplines and with custody officers to accomplish paitent goals. Guest for this program is Nicole Heffner, BSN, RN, CCHP. She is Health Services Administrator for Lehigh County Prison in Allentown, Pennsylvania, a maximum security jail with an average daily population of 1100 and annual...
info_outline
2011 Correctional Health Care News Round-Up
Correctional Nursing Today Podcast
The correctional health care news from 2011 is discussed by Lorry Schoenly and regular panelists Catherine Knox and Sue Smith, correctional nurses with clinical, education and management experience. Key themes from the previous year were healthcare legal claims, medical cost shifting, medicaid funding potential and transgender treatment.
info_outlineOriginally aired August 19, 2010: Sue Smith, RN, MSN, CCHP-RN, joins Lorry to discuss the issue of failure to rescue. First recognized in acute care facilities, failure to rescue has come to be associated with understaffing, lack of communication, healthcare staff who become overly task oriented and to lack of vigilance. In the correctional setting, inmate-patients can have mixed motivations for seeking medical attention and this can result in a cynical attitude toward health care requests. How can all of this be overcome? Sue Smith has been a correctional nurse for over 20 years, mainly in the Ohio Prison System. She is currently a clinical nursing instructor.