Clinician Experiences of Care Provision in the Correctional Setting: A Scoping Review

Simon, Lisa; Beckmann, David; Stone, Martha E.; Williams, Rachael; Cohen, Marya J.; Tobey, Matthew

doi:10.1177/1078345820953154

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“…While mistrust between incarcerated patients and correctional health care professionals may be common, we do not intend to discount the efforts of correctional health care professionals, who often are disempowered, practicing in a setting that undermines patient trust, and whose recommendations for patient care may be stymied by forces out of their control. 10 …”

Section: Community Clinicians Should Re-address Incarcerated Patient’s Goals Of Carementioning

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Providing Ethical and Humane Care to Hospitalized, Incarcerated Patients With COVID-19

Rorvig

Williams

2021

Am J Hosp Palliat Care

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The COVID-19 pandemic is devastating the health of hundreds of thousands of people who live and work in U.S. jails and prisons. Due to dozens of large outbreaks in correctional facilities, tens of thousands of seriously ill incarcerated people are receiving medical care in the community hospital setting. Yet community clinicians often have little knowledge of the basic rights and ethical principles governing care of seriously ill incarcerated patients. Such patients are legally entitled to make their own medical decisions just like non-incarcerated patients, and retain rights to appoint surrogate decision makers and make advance care plans. Wardens, correctional officers, and prison health care professionals should not make medical decisions for incarcerated patients and should not be asked to do so. Dying incarcerated patients should be offered goodbye visits with their loved ones, and patients from federal prisons are legally entitled to them. Community health care professionals may need to advocate for this medically vulnerable hospitalized patient population to receive ethically appropriate, humane care when under their care in community hospitals. If ethical care is being obstructed, community health care professionals should contact the prison’s warden and medical director to explain their concerns and ask questions. If necessary, community clinicians should involve a hospital’s ethics committee, leadership, and legal counsel. Correctional medicine experts and legal advocates for incarcerated people can also help community clinicians safeguard the rights of incarcerated patients.

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Section: Community Clinicians Should Re-address Incarcerated Patient’s Goals Of Carementioning

confidence: 99%

Providing Ethical and Humane Care to Hospitalized, Incarcerated Patients With COVID-19

Rorvig

Williams

2021

Am J Hosp Palliat Care

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“…Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, published reviews related to nurses and other health professionals working in correctional facilities identified occupational stressors including security prioritization, conflicts, fear, job demands [ 11 ], burnout, stress [ 12 ], and secondary trauma [ 13 ]. Within North America, older U.S. studies have demonstrated moderate [ 14 ] and high [ 15 ] work-related mean stress levels among correctional nurses.…”

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Working Conditions and Wellbeing among Prison Nurses during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Comparison to Community Nurses

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Shapirshteyn³

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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The psychological health and work challenges of nurses working in prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic are understudied. We evaluated the work and wellbeing characteristics of a California prison nurse group, with a comparison to those of a community nurse group. From May to November 2020, an online survey measured psychosocial and organizational work factors, sleep habits, psychological characteristics, COVID-19 impacts, and pre-pandemic recall among 62 prison nurses and 47 community nurses. Prison nurses had significantly longer work hours (54.73 ± 14.52, p < 0.0001), higher pandemic-related work demands, and less sleep hours (5.36 ± 1.30, p < 0.0001) than community nurses. Community nurses had significantly higher pandemic-related fear levels (work infection: p = 0.0115, general: p = 0.0025) and lower perceived personal protective equipment (PPE) supply (p = 0.0103). Between pre-pandemic and pandemic periods, both groups had significantly increased night shift assignments and decreased sleep hours, but the prison group had increased work hours. Although not statistically significant, both groups had high occupational stress and prevalence of post-traumatic stress symptoms. Our results indicate that prison nurses experienced work and wellbeing challenges during the pandemic. Future research and practice ought to address nurses’ workload, PPE, and psychological resources in correctional facilities and healthcare organizations.

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The Effects of Correctional Environments on Correctional Mental Health Professionals: A Phenomenological Qualitative Study

Gangemi

2024

Corrections

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Clinician Experiences of Care Provision in the Correctional Setting: A Scoping Review

Cited by 5 publications

References 40 publications

Providing Ethical and Humane Care to Hospitalized, Incarcerated Patients With COVID-19

Providing Ethical and Humane Care to Hospitalized, Incarcerated Patients With COVID-19

Working Conditions and Wellbeing among Prison Nurses during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Comparison to Community Nurses

The Effects of Correctional Environments on Correctional Mental Health Professionals: A Phenomenological Qualitative Study

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