title: Initiating a long-term care nursing service for aging inmates.
abstract: In establishing a new long-term care nursing service in a correctional health care setting, the director of nursing (DON) sets the organizational milieu with a holistic humanistic perspective. She is expected to demonstrate the leadership attributes of vision, creativity, and accountability as manifested through outcomes. Based on her 6-year experience, the author delineates the DON's role in collaboratively initiating a program at a new facility, devising a method to identify geriatric inmates in need, and establishing a hospice program in a federal medical center where security takes precedence.
authors.affiliation: National Interfaith Coalition on Aging, Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: Rita K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Chow
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011329:Prisoners; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000458:organization & administration