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Nursing in Justice and Forensic Health Care Forum
Our members work in all places of nursing associated with the justice system, including prisons, police custody, street triage, secure mental health and forensic examination settings.
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Deadline to apply: 4.30pm on Friday 21 June 2024
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Library subject guide
Discover key nursing in justice and forensic health care information resources including books, reports and journal articles
Further resources
RCN resources
- Dementia Care Principles for People in Prison. This document sets out the five principles, based on evidence gathered from people living with dementia, carers and practitioners.
- RCN advice guide. Violence in the workplace
- Independent Advisory Panel for Deaths in Custody & RCN. Avoidable natural deaths in prison custody: putting things right
- Nursing in justice and forensic health care clinical topic. This specialist area contains information and resources relevant to those working in the field of nursing in justice and forensic health care.
- Time and space: mindfulness based videos for nursing staff. Six videos covering different stages of your day. See also: Time and space: enabling diffusing activities (2019)
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation guidance (2016). To support the decision making process of when not to perform CPR in prisons and immigration removal centres.
- Migrant health. Information for nursing and midwifery staff to help signpost them to useful resources and where they can direct people to access health care.
Further resources
- HM Inspectorate of Prisons (2024) The long wait: A thematic review of delays in the transfer of mentally unwell prisoners
- National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) (2024) Prison healthcare
- NHS England. A review of health and social care in women’s prisons
- NHS England. Combatting racial discrimination against minority ethnic nurses, midwives and nursing associates
- Nuffield Trust. Inequality on the inside: Using hospital data to understand the key health care issues for women in prison
- RCPCH. Healthcare standards for children and young people in secure settings
- RCPsych. Standards for Prison Mental Health Services – Fifth Edition
- University of Surrey. How is cancer care best provided to patients in English prisons?
Latest RCN bulletin news
- 'Nursing within prisons is varied and complex' - Maggie Wood talks about the challenges and rewards of working in this unique environment (Mar 2021)
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