Health screening is performed by correctional nurses many times every day. The National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC), the American Correctional Association (ACA), and the American Psychiatric Association (APA) support the use of nonmental health professionals to conduct initial screening. Initial health screening may be the only contact a detainee will have with any health care personnel, or it may be the first of many contacts. Urgent mental health needs can be identified at the time of receiving health screening and so questions related to history as well as signs and symptoms of mental illness and suicidality should be included in the receiving screening tool. The purpose of screening inmates for assignment to the kitchen is to prevent transmission of food-borne illnesses. Nurses use screening techniques and tools in the correctional setting to examine, identify, and act upon clinical conditions that inmates have for health care and safety.