The Correctional Nurse Manifesto

This 30-page ebook describes the 7 affirmations of a correctional nursing manifesto to live by. Correctional nurses have the challenging job of providing nursing care to vulnerable, marginalized patients in the low-resourced, ethically challenging criminal justice system - jails, prisons, or juvenile detention centers. It can be easy to lose your bearings in these dangerous waters.

Correctional Nurse Manifesto

As a correctional nurse, I will
•Treat inmates with the dignity and respect deserving of any patient
•Work within my scope of practice at all times
•Not become cynical to the health requests of my patient population
•Hold myself and my peers to the professional boundaries of practice
•Continually guard my own and other’s physical and mental safety
•Speak up when I see ill treatment of my patient population
•Be a force for good in the community in which I work

By reading this ebook you will be able to:
•Describe key threats to professional correctional nursing practice
•Identify ways to practice safe, effective, and compassionate nursing in the criminal justice system
•Outline methods to avoid becoming a jaded, cynical, and dissatisfied correctional nurse

Continuing Education Credit (1.0) available for an additional processing fee (explained in the text).