The Correctional Nurse Manifesto: Seven Affirmations to Guide Your Correctional Practice

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).