Personal Statement: HMP Down View Correctional Nursing Placement

This personal statement is tailored for a correctional nursing placement, likely at HMP Down View, a female prison. The student highlights their qualifications, including bachelor's and master's degrees, and extensive experience gained through various placements. They emphasize their clinical and non-pharmacological skills, which are crucial for building therapeutic relationships. The statement showcases the ability to handle diverse patient populations, including those with mental health issues and a potential for aggression. The student also underlines their cross-cultural communication skills, conflict management abilities, and the skills needed for problem-solving, effective communication, and sound judgment. The student aims to use these skills to excel in the challenging environment of correctional nursing, contributing to their professional development and success within the healthcare field. The assignment brief outlines the learning opportunities at HMP Down View, including primary care, multidisciplinary team collaboration, sexual health, offender management, risk assessment, substance misuse, social care services, complex case meetings, and resettlement support.

Running head: PERSONAL STATEMENT
PERSONAL STATEMENT
Name of the student:
Name of the university:
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Correctional nursing practices require the healthcare professionals to require knowledge
and experience with a huge array of conditions and presenting problems. Therefore, it is
important for the nurses to ensure that they can make good clinical judgments about the nature of
the problem of the offenders along with the actions that need to be taken with the urgency of
response. I have completed my bachelors’ degree and master’s degree from elite colleges along
with good grades in each of the institutions. I have developed huge knowledge and skills during
my learning years that had made me capable of managing critical cases of patients with
expertise. I have good working experiences as I have participated in a number of working
placements. These experiences had helped me to develop not only my clinical skills but also non-
pharmacological skills that help in developing therapeutic relationship with patients. Hence, I
believe that my experiences would help me to tackle each critical case in the correctional home
successfully. In addition, I would able to develop new knowledge and skill sets by working in the
challenging situations in the correctional home that would help me to enrich my skill sets.
In correction homes, nurses are usually the first health care professionals who assess the
health concern or the complaints. Patients in the correctional homes present with virtually every
form of health problems and might have occurring conditions that can complicate the diagnosis
and plan of care. Therefore, working in the correctional homes would be indeed a challenging
place where I will be able to encounter people with wide range of disorder – not only physical
but also mental disorders. Moreover, many of the patients often pose a risk to the professionals,
as they tend to become violent and aggressive. Handling such cases would be helpful for me to
develop different types of skills that would help me in my future career as well.
I am overseas-trained adult nurses and are well aware of the cultural preferences,
traditions and inhibitions of people from different diverse backgrounds. Moreover, through

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attending various workshops, I have developed good communication as well as interpersonal
skills required by every healthcare professional to provide person-centered care. Researchers are
of the opinion that personality and communication skills are crucial components for being a
prison nurse. Therefore, my skills would be helpful for me in handling complex cases
successfully. Researchers are of the opinion that conflict management skills are also important
for a job in the prison nursing because there often remain risks of verbal abuse and violence. As I
have participated in many workshop placements, I have gone through various positive and
negative experiences that had helped me to develop conflict resolution skills. Therefore, I believe
that I would be able to work efficiently in the correctional homes. I believe that on a daily basis,
I will need to use broad range of skills like problem solving skills, effective listening and
communication, offering advices as well as good judgment. This would help me to prepare
myself in ways by which I can become an expert nursing professional and reach the zenith of
success in whichever domain of healthcare I join.