PROJECT: CASE STUDY: WHAT CONSTITUTES APPROPRIATE CARE? Assignment Introduction Read the following description of an actual event involving a correctional nurse and the delivery of medical services in a state prison.As you read, take notes, identifying what the medical staff in the situation did properly, and where they made mistakes that denied the prisoners their constitutional right to appropriate medical care. When you are finished, write a report to the director of corrections of the state, explaining what corrective action – if any – he or she should take at the prison. Meadowbrooke is a medium security women’s prison near the Canadian border. The nearest regional trauma center is located more than 200 miles south. Six correctional nurses have been hired to manage the medical care for all 1,200 prisoners. Many of the inmates have sexually transmitted diseases; some are HIV-positive and a smaller number have full-blown AIDS. The nurses’ supervisor is a registered nurse with more than 20 years’ experience in a small community hospital; she retired three years ago from the hospital. She requested and was given this position essentially because she had been active in the campaign of the newly elected governor, who viewed this as a patronage job with little, if any, real responsibility or authority. Meadowbrooke is one of the state’s oldest prisons, built in 1934 as a maximum security facility to house up to 1,000 male prisoners. When mandatory sentencing laws passed in the 1960s and significantly increased the number of inmates, a new men’s prison was built on nearby property. After the new maximum security facility opened, limited improvements were made to Meadowbrooke before it reopened as a women’s medium security prison. Providing the men with appropriate medical care had never been a priority at Meadowbrooke. While complaints about poor care were frequent, there had never been a formal lawsuit brought against the state – in large measure because the plans for the new prison had already been approved and