Accreditation and Certification

Improvements in the delivery of care have been achieved by the establishment of standards and accreditation offered by the American Corrections Association (ACA) and the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC). Both the ACA and NCCHC offer certification exams for nurses to demonstrate their expertise in correctional health care. The Essentials of Correctional Nursing was written to provide the content and structure to support nurses in studying for these certification examinations.

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