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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Tara Taylor, BSN, RN, CCHP, Regional Director of Nursing, and Mariann Burnetti-Atwell, PsyD, Director of Operations, Behavior Health Services, for the Missouri State Department of Corrections through Corizon Health, join Lorry to discuss lateral violence and bullying in nursing. They are presenting the session Lateral Violence in Nursing: How to Prevent Bullying and Create a […]

Todd Wilcox, MD, MBA, CCHP-A, Medical Director of the Salt Lake County Jail System, joins Lorry to discuss managing some difficult correctional patient situations. He is presenting the session Intensive Medical Management: How to Handle Prisoners Who Self-Mutilate, Slime, Starve, Spit and Scratch at the National Conference on Correctional Health Care in Dallas, TX, October […]

Tracey Titus, RN, CCHP-RN, Manager of Accreditation Services for the National Commission on Correctional Health Care joins Lorry to discuss common pitfalls in interpreting the National Commission’s Accreditation Standards. She is presenting the session Tips, Tricks and Troubleshooting: Common Pitfalls in Interpreting NCCHC Standards at the National Conference on Correctional Health Care in Dallas, TX, […]

Jamie Davis, a registered nurse and paramedic, discusses medication math and the help provided by his book – Med Math Simplified: Dosing Math Tricks for Students, Nurses and Paramedics. Jaime podcasts on the ProMed Network hosting shows like the Medicast podcast and the Nursing Show podcast. Jaime is open about his own struggles with math […]

Gail Normandin-Carpio and Denise Rahaman join Lorry to talk about top correctional health care news items for July, 2015. Callous and Cruel: Use of Force against Inmates with Mental Disabilities in US Jails and Prisons Our first story is a report out of Human Rights Watch about the use of force against inmates with mental disabilities […]

Erica Gerrity, Director and Founder of the Minnesota Prison Doula Project and Raelene Baker, a Certified Birth Doula and their Project Coordinator join Lorry to talk about the Minnesota Prison Doula Project, a prison‐based pregnancy, birth, and parenting program. They currently have 8 doulas in 3 facilities. Read more about their program on their blog. […]

Lorry is joined by Mari Knight and Catherine Knox to discuss the latest correctional health care news items. New study examines health factors influence on ex-prisoners’ chances of returning to jail The first news item is a study out of Australia that links health factors to recidivism. In this exploratory study of prisoners from seven […]