title: Professional education for correctional nurses. A community-based partnership model.
abstract: Advanced, professional education is the key to shift the correctional health nursing role from isolated practice behind bars to a seamless community-based, managed-care approach. From a public health perspective, the state of health or illness of the correctional population reflects the state of health or illness of the community of which they are a part. The aim of correctional health is to close the health-trauma cycle and to restore the inmate's health to a state and a process of being, and the inmate to an integrated and whole person within the community.
authors.affiliation: University of Hawaii at Manoa, School of Nursing, Honolulu 96822, USA.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Goldkuhle
mesh_terms: D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D011330:Prisons; D000078329:Workforce