Which nursing intervention will best improve an inmate's likelihood of not re-offending and thus not returning to the correctional system?
a. Frequently screening inmates for mental health disorders
b. Providing mandatory inmate focused anger management workshops
c. Providing as needed (prn) medications for inmates with a history of depression
d. Working with the families to prepare them for the inmates scheduled release
ANS: A
More than 250,000 incarcerated offenders are believed to have been diagnosed with or will develop a major mental illness while in the prison system. Without proper treatment and in-tervention, these offenders are at higher risk for violence recidivism, which is the criminal behavior of an offender after being released from incarceration. Frequent screenings for mental health disorders and the resulting treatment will have the greatest impact on this situ-ation. PRN, as needed, treatment of mental disorders is not within the nurse's scope unless covered by standing orders. Attention to anger management is appropriate but not as im-pactful as the correct option. Working with families is not a typical responsibility of a nurse in the prison environment.
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