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Nursing Behind Bars: My Experience As a Corrections Nurse

Nurse.com

“I just want to thank you,” he told me one day when I was checking his vital signs. ” Opportunities to widen and deepen my empathy presented themselves during my time as a corrections nurse at the jail. He wore diapers and couldn’t consistently feed himself. “You have helped me so much.

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S3 Ep.1 : How Training Has Changed Over the Last 20 Years, With New Hosts Linda Leekley and Amanda Sternklar

Home Care Pulse

Mm-hmm just one example from sort of ancient history though, did you know that most nurses were not allowed to touch a stethoscope or a blood pressure cuff until the 1960s physicians didn’t think that nurses had the skills necessary to take vital signs? But not exclusively during, you know, COVID 19 and the pandemic.