title: When Caring for Perpetrators Becomes a Sentence: Recognizing Vicarious Trauma.
abstract: Correctional health nurses are not exempt from vicarious traumatization, but this concept has yet to be explored. Correctional health nurses practice in environments that come with significant risk for traumatic exposure from inmates and coworkers. The Professional Quality of Life Scale was used as a proxy to measure vicarious trauma. Surveys were mailed to 2,000 correctional health nurses that were on the mailing list of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care, with a total response rate of 10.1%. Respondents were asked to complete the Professional Quality of Life Scale and a short demographic survey. Findings reveal that vicarious traumatization does exist among correctional health nurses.
authors.affiliation: OSF Saint Anthony Medical Group-Roxbury Medical Group, Rockford, IL, USA tanyaj917@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Tanya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Munger
authors.affiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing, Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Savage
authors.affiliation: University of Connecticut College of Nursing, Storrs, CT, USA.
authors.forename: Denise M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Panosky
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000068376:Compassion Fatigue / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016272:Occupational Health; D011330:Prisons; D011788:Quality of Life; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
keywords: Professional Quality of Life Scale; compassion fatigue; corrections nursing; vicarious trauma