Correctional Nursing Research Articles

Professional education for correctional nurses. A community-based partnership model.

Advanced, professional education is the key to shift the correctional health nursing role from isolated practice behind bars to a seamless community-based, managed-care approach. From a public health perspective, the state of health or illness of the correctional population reflects the state of health or illness of the community of which they are a part. The aim of correctional health is to close the health-trauma cycle and to restore the inmate's health to a state and a process of being, and the inmate to an integrated and whole person within the community.

Editor’s Comments

Journal of Correctional Health CareVol. 4, No. 1 ArticlesEditor’s CommentsB. Jaye AnnoB. Jaye AnnoSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:1 Apr 1997https://doi.org/10.1177/107834589700400101AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsPermissionsDownload CitationsTrack CitationsAdd to favorites Back To Publication ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail "Editor’s Comments." Journal of Correctional Health Care, 4(1), pp. 3–4FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited byProfessional Education for Correctional Nurses: A Community-Based Partnership ModelJournal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, Vol. 37, No. 9 Volume 4Issue 1Apr 1997 Information© 1997 National Commission on Correctional Health CareTo cite this article:B. Jaye Anno.Editor’s Comments.Journal of Correctional Health Care.Apr 1997.3-4.http://doi.org/10.1177/107834589700400101Published in Volume: 4 Issue 1: April 1, 1997PDF download

Serving time: psychiatric mental health nursing in corrections.

1. The opposing philosophies of custody and caring result in direct implications for nurses working in the correctional environment. Nurses constantly "walk in line" between the requirement of security, health care, and client advocacy. 2. Deinstitutionalization, increased rates of incarceration for interpersonal violence, and substance abuse related crimes have resulted in a rapidly expanding prison population. Of all offenders, 10% to 15% have a major mental illness, leading to many treatment challenges for the nurse. 3. Therapy issues with this population are complicated. Correctional nurses must have a good understanding of the therapeutic nurse-client relationship, with particular attention to therapeutic impasses, transference, and countertransference. 4. Historically, role development for nurses working in corrections has been particularly difficult. Correctional nurses must grapple with issues surrounding professional identity, professional isolation, and territoriality.

Correctional nursing practice.

This study explored the nature and problems of nursing practice in correctional settings using qualitative field research methodology. Data were collected through participant observation at three men's state prisons and one city jail and included informal interviews and conversations of varying length and depth with 40 nursing staff members. Data analysis was accomplished through the constant comparative methodology and dimension analysis of grounded theory. Custody personnel's recognition, evaluation, and acceptance of judicially mandated health care varied across settings and formed a toleration continuum with two types (contentious and considered) located at polar ends and a third (acknowledged) in a central position. Correctional nurses' conceptions of nursing were categorized as limited, expanded, or other-directed. The three types of toleration provided differing contexts for correctional nursing practice. Interactions between custody and health care staff occurring within each toleration scene differentially influenced the degree to which the three conceptions of nursing prevailed.

Vistas in correctional nursing.

Vistas in correctional nursing.