Correctional Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice

Correctional Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, Third Edition, provides a resource for a better understanding of the expectations for a correctional nurse and how a correctional nurse leads in the healthcare community.
Nursing is centered on caring for and respecting human beings, including those who are detained or incarcerated and those who are under legal supervision in the community. Correctional registered nurses provide evidence-based nursing care, as well as advocacy, health education, and prevention this diverse and often underserved practice population. Correctional nurses face complex demographics and unique health, ethical, legal, and social challenges.

In 2018, the American Nurses Association (ANA) convened a volunteer work group of correctional nurses to review and revise the 2013 Correctional Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, Second Edition. This new edition’s scope of practice addresses what is expected of all correctional nurses, specifying the who, what, where, when, why, and how of their practice. The detailed discussion of that scope of practice provides the context needed to understand and use the standards, presenting the underlying assumptions, characteristics,

Platform:

OvidSP

Publisher:

American Nurses Association, Inc

Product Type:

Book

Author:

American Nuses Association

ISBN:

978-1-94-780077-9

Specialty:

• General Interest Nursing

Language:

English

Edition:

3rd Ed.

Pages:

0

Publication Year:

2020

Doody Core Title Score:

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• American Nurses Association Book Collection

• Gerontological Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice (Revised)