The new healthcare model in prison nursing

The model of Institut Català de Salut for Prison Healthcare.

Prison nursing and its training.

The main task of nurses is to take care of sick and healthy people and evaluate changes in their health conditions. The goal is to take the appropriate measures to help their recovery or guarantee a dignified death, and if possible, help them regain autonomy and independence. Nursing is present in different areas: primary health, mental health, accident and emergencies, intensive and coronary c...

[Advanced practice in nursing and new organisational healthcare models].

En los últimos años, hemos asistido en nuestro país a una eclosión de la Enfermería sin precedentes, tanto en el terreno de la formación ----universitaria y clínica---como en el terreno de la práctica, con la aparición de nuevos roles y reivindicación de nuevas competencias. En este contexto, se ha ido introduciendo en nuestro discurso el concepto de «rol avanzado» o de «Práctica Avanzada en En...

Prison nursing: legal framework and care reality.

INTRODUCTION Penitentiary Nursing has experienced during the last decades a deep transformation similar to that experienced by the rest of the Nursing. However, there is a great distance from the protective legislation. OBJECTIVE To analyze the main legal documents which regulate the functions of Penitentiary Nursing and to compare it with the health care reality of nurses in Spanish prisons....

Toward a new future for healthcare and nursing practice.

The healthcare trends described in this article will eventually lead to transformation of healthcare delivery and nursing practice. The nursing profession needs to be proactive in creating new models of care delivery and in redefining the work of nursing. The authors describe 2 examples of emerging models and principles for the creation of future models, related leadership challenges for nurse ...