The Immigration Health Service Corps developed evidence-based clinical nursing guidelines to standardize the evaluation and triage of acute care sick call and urgent/emergent complaints. These guidelines comply with state laws, regulations, and accreditation standards, providing symptom definitions, assessment guidance, nursing diagnoses, patient education, and care plans, as well as red flags requiring immediate referral.

• Review the benefit of having standardized, evidence-based clinical nursing guidelines in correctional health care
• Summarize components of IHSC's clinical nursing guidelines and how to use them to guide nursing practice
• Discuss how nursing guidelines can improve patient care and outcomes

Level: Intermediate