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Palliative care within secure forensic environments
Author(s) -
FOWLERKERRY S.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.69
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1365-2850
pISSN - 1351-0126
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2850.2003.00621.x
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , palliative care , limiting , nursing , medicine , psychology , computer science , engineering , mechanical engineering , artificial intelligence
The principles and philosophy of palliative care can be implemented successfully in secure forensic environments. While incarcerated, many inmates will suffer from a variety of life‐limiting illnesses requiring palliative care. There are a number of resources available for the development and implementation of programs within secure forensic environments.