Publication Date

1-1-2017

Document Type

Dissertation/Thesis

First Advisor

Hickey, Kari

Degree Name

B.S. (Bachelor of Science)

Legacy Department

School of Nursing and Health Studies

Abstract

An estimated forty percent of jail inmates suffer from chronic health problems. It is important to know what kinds of issues the corrections population faces most commonly. My project looks at the perceptions of nurses who work at a county jail in rural Indiana to see what they view as the most common inmate health problems. It also looks at literature relating to the topic, and compares the results of the two sources of information. I used a seven-question qualitative survey to ask the nurses about what they viewed as the most common problems they saw. I found that both sources mentioned chronic illness and substance use as important issues, but only the literature mentioned serious mental illness and sexually transmitted infections, while only the survey mentioned seizures, insomnia, headaches, toothaches, and urinary tract infections.

Extent

14 pages

Language

eng

Publisher

Northern Illinois University

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In Copyright

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NIU theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from Huskie Commons for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without the written permission of the authors.

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