Nursing Practice
Professional Development Center 4 Correctional Nursing
Center 4 Correctional Nursing offers a wide range of professional development programs for correctional nurses.Our programs are designed to smooth transition into correctional healthcare and provide in-depth knowledge designed for correctional nurses.
What is Correctional Nursing?
“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.”
-Scope and Standards of Correctional Nursing Practice (3rd Ed., p. 1)
Care Setting
Nurses care at one time or another for the nearly 1.5 million persons under the jurisdiction of the criminal justice system (The Sentencing Project, 2024).
In addition to a community health service system, there are over 6,000 prisons, jails, detention centers and specialty hospitals in the U.S. (Prison Policy Initiative, 2024).
This is a large system and offers many opportunities and challenges for professional nurses at all levels of licensure.
-Scope and Standards of Correctional Nursing Practice (3rd Ed., p. 1)
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