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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA |
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Arthur M. Brewer, MD, Assistant Professor, UMass Medical School, Medical Director, UMass Correctional Health Program, One Research Drive, Westboro, MA 01851, (508) 475-3235, janet.hale@umassmed.edu, Janet Fraser Hale, PhD, APRN, BC, NP, Professor, Graduate School of Nursing, UMass Correctional Health Program, One Research Drive, Westboro, MA 01581, and Jill M. Terrien, PhD@, APRN, BC, NP, Coordinator of Clinical Contracts and Instructor, Graduate School of Nursing, S1-853 55 Lake Ave. North, Worcester, MA 01655.
Nationally, 95 % of offenders eventually re-enter their communities - approximately 12 million are released annually. One in 32 of U.S. adults is under some form of correctional supervision. Correctional health care professionals must seize upon the many “teachable moments” available while offenders are behind bars. In the early stages of a partnership between a Department of Correction and an academic health science center that educates physicians, nurse practitioners, and nurses toward careers in the Massachusetts public sector; a first step was to call upon the expertise among correctional health care professionals and faculty members who practice within the Medical School. the Graduate School of Nursing and the Department of Correction to strengthen correctional health academic programs. This presentation presents the analysis of data and recommendations from discipline specific focus groups (physician, midlevel providers (nurse practitioner and physician assistants), and nurses). Developed by an interdisciplinary academic and correctional health leadership team represented by the three professional levels of care, questions were designed to elicit perspectives, expertise, and experiences from both corrections and community health practice that would contribute to the design, structure, and implementation of quality, evidence-based and appropriate educational experiences for medical, RN, NP students and medical residents. Content was analyzed for competency themes, knowledge and clinical experiences recommended for educating and recruiting future correctional health professionals who seek a personally and professionally rewarding career that impacts on the greater public health of all the communities to which offenders are released.
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Keywords: Partnerships, Correctional Health Care
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA