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Abstract: 

Our regular survey of important research findings reviews papers dealing with the greater use of nurse practitioners (NPs) in custodial settings; and the basic conflict faced by health professionals in confinement facilities as they weigh their primary duty to their patients against “a secondary duty to follow the rules of prison management, whereby prisoners are not primarily patients but rather objects of surveillance, punishment, or rehabilitation.” Reviewed are “Implementing Two Nurse Practitioner Models of Service at an Australian Male Prison: A Quality Assurance Study” by Ides Wong, Eryn Wright, Damian Santomauro, Raquel How, Christopher Leary, and Meredith Harris, published in Journal of Clinical Nursing e287 (2018); and “Prison Health Care Governance: Guaranteeing Clinical Independence” by Jorg Pont, Stefan Enggist, Heino Stover, Brie Williams, Robert Greifinger, and Hans Wolff, published in American Journal of Public Health 472 (2018).

Keywords: Nurse Practitioners; Prison Health Care Governance

Affiliations:  1: Pace University Law School.