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We are so excited about our integration with CorrectionalNurse.Net and The Correctional Nurse Educator!

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Nursing Behind the Wall

Inspiring Professional Correctional Nursing Practice™

“Correctional nursing is the delivery of evidence-based nursing to protect, promote, and optimize health and abilities; prevent illness and injury; facilitate healing; alleviate suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response with care and respect; and advocate for individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations under the jurisdiction of the justice system~ Correctional Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, 2020

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Professional Correctional Nursing Practice

Nursing and the provision of healthcare in jails and prisons is often a combination of ingenuity, flexibility, persistence and skill. This website is for all who work in correctional healthcare. You are to be applauded for your hard work and dedication to patients who are often from vulnerable and underserved populations.

We initially developed this site so that correctional healthcare professionals would have a place to go to for resources specific to their practice. As time passed, it was clear that we also needed to offer continuing education specifically for Correctional Nurses, and so we began The Correctional Nurse Educator. The enthusiasm for our classes has been overwhelming, and we now offer over fifty classes on our site to groups as well as individuals. We update and add new classes just about every month. At the same time, our friends at CorrectionalNurse.Net saw a need to provide a platform for correctional nurses to communicate with others who understand the special nature of Nursing Behind the Wall. We are now so happy to share that CorrectionalNurse.Net has now become part of The Correctional Nurse Educator and Nursing Behind the Wall family.

With this new integration, CorrectionalNurse.Net will continue to have biweekly posts to include both a monthly clinical component and a monthly correctional nursing professional practice component. At the same time, Nursing Behind the Wall will post a case study about the clinical topic that is intended to reinforce correctional nursing assessment and clinical decision-making. This will be posted for the month. Finally, The Correctional Nurse Educator will offer a class (or classes) that also support the monthly clinical topic at a substantial discount. That offer will also be available throughout the month.

We are really excited to offer this integration of services for Correctional Nursing. Please feel free to contact us with your thoughts.

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Mr. Villegos: Abdominal Pain

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Mr. Villegos is a 46 year old man with no medical history except alcoholism for the past 20+ years. When asked last week during his Receiving Screening by medical staff, he stated that he has been sober for the past two years prior to incarceration, although he did disclose at that time that he drank pretty steadily for about a…
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Ms. Jonas: Blood in Stool

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Ms. Jonas is a 50-year-old woman who was recently arrested by the Federal Marshalls and is housed at your facility.  She initiated a Sick Call Request yesterday complaining of rectal bleeding.  Today you are the nurse triaging sick call slips, and you see Ms. Jonas in a face-to-face encounter.  You learn that she has a history of hypothyroidism and is obese, despite…
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Ms. Bradley: Lightheadedness

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An officer calls down to the medical office stating that Ms. Bradley, a 62-year-old woman, is complaining of feeling lightheaded, tired and weak.   You respond to the unit and find Ms. Bradley sitting in a wheelchair with a cup of water in her hand, given to her by the officer.  Ms. Bradley states that she has been feeling this way for the…
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Mr. Byrd: Fatigue and Joint Aches

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Mr. Byrd, a 55 year old gentleman, submitted a sick call slip yesterday complaining of fatigue, headache, and joint aches.  He states that he was seen in NSC about a month ago before being transferred to this facility, and was diagnosed with a “virus thing.” He was told to follow-up if there was no improvement, and so he submitted the sick…
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Finn: Juvenile with Lump on Neck and Fever

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Finn is a 15-year-old boy who has been at the Sands Juvenile School for the past year.  The school is in a rural area, and has an animal husbandry program, as well as a carpentry program.  Nursing Sick Call Evaluation Finn presents to the medical unit with a complaint of a lump on the left side of his neck, just below…
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