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    Correctional Nurse Legal Briefs: Important Information to Keep You Out of Court!
    Correctional Nurse Legal Briefs: Important Information to Keep You Out of Court!
    Correctional Nurse Legal Briefs: Important Information to Keep You Out of Court!
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    Correctional Nurse Legal Briefs: Important Information to Keep You Out of Court!

    By Lorry Schoenly

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    Possibly more than any other nursing specialty, correctional nursing practice is lawsuit-prone. Our patient population, already in the criminal justice system, frequently seeks legal action when they feel they have not received rightful healthcare. Nurses working in the correctional setting have all the same accountability for delivering and documenting care as those working in traditional settings, along with some unique risks and liabilities that need attention. Correctional nurses must be acutely aware of malpractice and negligence concerns along with specific constitutional and civil rights issues related to the incarcerated patient.

    By reading this book you will be able to
    *List common areas of nursing malpractice as they relate to the correctional nursing specialty.
    *Differentiate malpractice legal claims from constitutional and civil rights claims in correctional health care.
    *Outline methods for delivering quality nursing care to avoid legal challenges to practice.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLorry Schoenly
    Release dateFeb 19, 2015
    ISBN9780991294244
    Correctional Nurse Legal Briefs: Important Information to Keep You Out of Court!
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    Lorry Schoenly

    Lorry Schoenly, PhD, RN, CCHP-RN, is a nurse author and educator specializing in the field of correctional health care. She provides consulting services to jails and prisons across the country on projects to improve professional nursing practice and patient safety. She began her corrections experience in the New Jersey Prison System where she created and implemented education for nurses, physicians, dentists, and site managers. Before “accidentally” finding correctional healthcare, she practiced in critical care and orthopaedic specialties.Dr. Schoenly actively promotes correctional nursing through social media outlets and increases the visibility of the specialty through her popular blog – correctionalnurse.net. Her podcast, Correctional Nursing Today, reviews correctional healthcare news and interviews correctional health care leaders. She writes a regular column for the CorrectionsOne.com website where she translates health care issues for the custody officer readers.Lorry is co-editor and chapter author of Essentials of Correctional Nursing, the first primary practice text for the correctional nursing specialty, published in 2012. She is the creator of the Correctional Nurse Manifesto: Seven Affirmations to Guide Your Correctional Practice. This short book is used to orient new nurses in many correctional settings. Her book The Correctional Health Care Patient Safety Handbook is an evidence-based guide to implement patient safety practices in the correctional setting.For the past four years she has helped other nurses become nurse educators as a visiting professor in the graduate program of Chamberlain College of Nursing where she teaches in the nurse educator track.When not writing, speaking, and consulting on correctional nursing practice, Lorry can be found reading Jane Austen, exploring civil war battlefields, or building Lego towers with her toddler grandson.

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      Correctional Nurse Legal Briefs - Lorry Schoenly

      Correctional Nurse Legal Briefs

      Important Information to Keep You Out of Court!

      Lorry Schoenly, PhD, RN, CCHP-RN

      Correctional Health Care Risk Consultant

      Copyright © 2015 Lorry Schoenly

      Smashwords Edition

      CorrectionalNurse.Net

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission of the copyright holder. Please contact lorry@correctionalnurse.net for permission or special discounts on bulk quantities.

      Published in the United States by Enchanted Mountain Press

      E-book ISBN: 978-0-9912942-4-4

      Every effort has been made to use sources believed to be reliable to provide this information. The author and publisher shall not be liable for any special, consequential, or exemplary damages resulting, in whole or in part, from the readers’ use of, or reliance on, the information contained in this book.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Professional Liability Issues

      Constitutional and Civil Rights Issues

      Confidentiality, HIPAA and the Correctional Nurse

      Ten Ways Correctional Nurses Can Land in Court

      Summary

      Questions to Consider

      References

      Introduction

      Possibly more than any other nursing specialty, correctional nursing practice is lawsuit-prone. Our patient population, already in the criminal justice system, frequently seeks legal action when they feel they have not received rightful healthcare. Nurses working in the correctional setting have all the same accountability for delivering and documenting care as those working in traditional settings, along with some unique risks and liabilities that need attention. Correctional nurses must be acutely aware of malpractice and negligence concerns along with specific constitutional and civil rights issues related to the incarcerated patient.

      By reading this book you will be able to

      • List common areas of nursing malpractice as they relate to the correctional nursing specialty.

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