prison nurse
Jail healthcare worker
A prison nurse is a registered nurse who provides healthcare to incarcerated individuals within correctional facilities.
The role combines standard nursing duties—administering medications, treating injuries, managing chronic conditions—with the unique challenges of a custodial environment: security protocols, limited resources, and patients who may be distrustful or manipulative.
She worked as a prison nurse for fifteen years before transferring to a hospital.
- infirmaryFacility for treating illness
- correctionsAdjustments to fix errors
- correctional officerPenitentiary staff supervising inmates
- inmateConfined facility resident
- medicalOf healthcare practice
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- nursingRN, LPN, LPNs, CNAs, CNA
- Prison Healthcareinfirmary, medical staff, sick call, health screening, medical screening
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