Nursing roles in health and justice services
Find out more about the specialist nursing staff working in each of the forensic and justice services, including prisons, police custody, immigration centre nurses and other secure justice settings.
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Who is this resource for?
This resource is aimed at nurses and nursing support workers across all settings and levels of practice, including students of health, social work and care professions.
What will this resource give me?
- information on what custody nurses do and what they are responsible for
- the work custody nurse practitioners do with detainees in custody
- understanding the role of prison nurses across UK prison settings, including more specific specialist roles
- the role of immigration centre nurses to people detained under the Immigration Act
- how health care assistants work within criminal justice settings.
Resource last reviewed
7 Aug 2019
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