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| UConn Introduces Nation’s First Correctional Nursing Training Van |
| By today.uconn.edu - Stephanie Reitz |
| Published: 09/24/2012 |
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A state-of-the-art vehicle that will provide on-site professional training for Connecticut’s correctional facility nurses is about to hit the road through an initiative led by the UConn School of Nursing. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at the School of Nursing today to place the 40-foot vehicle into service. It is the only such correctional nursing simulation van operating in the U.S., and UConn hopes to make it a nationwide model. The van and the UConn-led training sessions for the prison nurses are fully funded with a $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration. It was awarded to UConn through the work of Deborah Shelton, a former UConn nursing professor, who proposed the partnership with the Department of Correction (DOC) and the Correctional Managed Health Care (CMHC) Division of the UConn Health Center. The vehicle includes a multitude of simulation features to let UConn faculty provide on-site training for prison nurses at their correctional facilities, resolving limits on time, space, and staffing that can complicate those professional development efforts. “When nurses go inside, the van’s features simulate what they would find in a health unit in a prison,” says Shelton, who was also previously director for research and evaluation for Correctional Managed Health Care. She is now an endowed professor and associate dean for research and nursing Ph.D. programs at West Virginia University. “The goal is to increase the quality of care,” she says. “The retention of correctional facility nurses should increase, costs should decrease, and the whole system will continue to improve.” The correctional nurses provide services at 16 Department of Corrections facilities statewide through Correctional Managed Health Care, which provides all medical, mental health, pharmacy, and dental services for the approximately 18,700 people who are incarcerated or in halfway houses in Connecticut. Read More. |
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