Johnnie Lambert, Sue Smith, and Kathy Wild join Lorry to discuss recent correctional health care new. Nurses thrust into guard duty at federal prisons USA Today is reporting that nurses, physical therapists and other senior medical staffers in the Federal Bureau of Prisons are being routinely assigned officer duties and other security-related shifts to fill […]

Jersey correctional nurses Denise Rahaman and Susan Laffan join Lorry to discuss current correctional healthcare news items on this episode of Correctional nursing Today. Lockdowns Disrupting Access to Mental Health Care for Inmates at Ottawa Jail Lockdowns and security issues in one Canadian jail are disrupting psychiatrist access to mentally ill inmates. The story indicates […]

Pratap Narayan, MD, a forensic psychiatrist with extensive experience in the criminal justice system joins Lorry in this episode to talk about dealing with psychopathic patients. He currently lives and works in California. Originally from India, Dr. Narayan migrated to the US early in his career and completed fellowships in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychiatric Research. […]

Becky Luethy, Operational Development Director for MHM Services; Krissy Ziegler, Vice President for Strategy and Business Development at Envolve; and Cheryl Word, Director for Analytics and Client Services at Envolve join Lorry to talk about correctional nurse support services and a lifestyle management program for incarcerated patients. This discussion is based on their presentation “Lessons […]

Cindy Peternelj-Taylor and Phil Woods are Professors of Nursing at the University of Saskatchewan College of Nursing in Saskatoon. This post is based on their session “Correctional Nurse Roles, Responsibilities, and Learning Needs” taking place at the 2016 Spring Conference on Correctional Health Care in Nashville, TN, April 9-12, 2016. Learn more about the conference […]

Correctional nurses Mari Knight and Johnnie Lambert join Lorry to discuss the latest correctional health care news. What dying looks like in America’s prisons This first story is about prison hospice care and recounts the experiences of author Ann Neumann as she visits the Walsh Regional Medical Unit in northeastern New York State. The state […]

Mary Muse, Director of Nursing for the Wisconsin Department of Corrections and ANA representative on the National Commission on Correctional Health Care Board of Directors shares her thoughts on the future of correctional nursing in this Correctional Nursing Today episode.  Mary has extensive background in both jail and prison nursing and is active in the […]

Correctional nurses Gayle Burrow and Sue Smith join Lorry to discuss the latest correctional health care news. News Items: Disabilities Among Prison And Jail Inmates, 2011–12 The Bureau of Justice has published a special report on disabilities among prison and jail inmates. Using data from the 2011-2012 National Inmate Survey, this report quantifies self-reported prevalence […]

Patricia Blair, JD, MSN, CCHP, a nurse attorney from Houston, TX, talks about nursing licensure issues and the appropriate response to a Board of Nursing inquiry on this episode of Correctional Nursing Today. Dr. Blair’s law firm specializes in health law, including nursing, and guardianship law. She also serves on the National Commission on Correctional […]

Catherine Knox, Sue Lane, and Kim Pearson join Lorry for this last news roundup of 2015. News Items Hepatitis C Screening of Prison Inmates Would Benefit Wider Community, Be Cost-Effective Our first story is about Hepatitis C Screening of inmates. There is much in the news about treating Hepatitis C now that some effective agents […]