Forensic/Correctional Nursing

Forensic/Correctional Nursing

The role of nursing is an integral one in any community setting. Nursing staff ensures that the right medical treatment and healthcare services are provided to those in need of them, at the right time and place. Within a community, the professional development of nurses should be directed in such a way that it helps to develop nurse practices based on a conceptual framework. This helps describing, explaining, predicting and prescribing nursing care, grounded in critical thinking and research that fits into daily practices of the community. Such an approach to nursing is essential for the purpose of gaining a deeper understanding of the healthcare services required by the general population and establishing a tight relationship.

From the point of view of the community, it is also essential that nursing staff provides and manages its services based on preventive, curative, and rehabilitative care. This is important mainly because it supports groups as well as individuals by encouraging greater efficiency. Another reason why nursing constitutes an integral part of a thriving community is that it enhances health education to patients, both individually and in groups, and therefore ensures the maintenance and restoration of health, enabling them to develop their own life projects.

Training is needed for professionals well planned as community nurses, aware of mental illness that should be integrated into health services in the community. Nursing requires continuous training in time, which lasts at least that hard working life, adapted to the changing situation of the society in which it is located. We know how to identify and accept the specific characteristics of the population we serve, we must be cognizant of the multicultural reality, we must analyze the health problems for which we have to step in and set the supply of nursing services, developing protocols and procedures that take ...