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Nursing in Prison

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  • © 2023

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  • Explores the development of the role of the nurse in a prison setting
  • Offers an overview of all the different and unique roles of nursing
  • Shows real experiences

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

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This Textbook addresses a gap in the market, as currently there are no contemporary books exploring nursing within a prison setting. The main focus is the provision of healthcare in the Prison Service of England and Wales, although examples will also be drawn from the United States of America and Australia. Healthcare within prison settings has changed remarkably to address the needs of the changing prison populations. Thus, this text is clearly structured to support student nurses to understand the role of the nurse within prison and how the different specialities of nursing are applied in this unique setting. This textbook provides an overview of the context of prison, prisoners, and healthcare, as well as the experiences of nurse specialists who work in this field, including adult, mental health, and learning disability nurses across primary care, mental health services, substance misuse and end-of-life care. 

This volume is informative for both undergraduate studentnurses and for qualified nurses and dispels many myths regarding working as a nurse in a prison. Each chapter is written by experts within the field, including nurses who have worked or still working within the prison setting. An important objective of this work is to inform student nurses of the possibility and opportunity of a nursing career within a prison setting. 








Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre of Social Care Health and Related Research, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK

    Joanne Brooke

About the editor

 

Professor Joanne Brooke is an adult nurse and a health psychologist, and is Director of the Centre of Social Care, Health, and Related Research, lead of the Person-centred Ageing cluster, as well as the International Dementia and Culture Collaborative. Joanne was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2018, which supported her travels to Australia and the United States of America to explore how prison services in these countries supported older prisoners, specifically exploring different healthcare service models. Joanne has completed a wealth of research and teaching within the prison setting, which has accumulated in a large number of peer reviewed journal articles and a book, Dementia in Prison: An Ethical Framework to Support Research, Practice and Prisoners.

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