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American Nurse Today
In the current era of the #MeToo movement and prominent sexual assault disclosures, these types of crimes are finally receiving the attention they deserve. Our society is acknowledging what research has been telling us for years about the high incidence of sexual violence in the United States. A benefit of the increased media and cultural attention on sexual assault crimes is that in many areas of the United States more victims are reporting the crimes to receive forensic medical examinations by sexual assault nurse examiners.
Many healthcare personnel and nurses are familiar with SANEs but may not realize that forensic nursing is a much broader nursing specialty that encompasses caring for patients who’ve experienced all kinds of violence and trauma.
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IAFN and ENA (Emergency Nurses Association) are pleased to announce the release of our joint position statement on Intimate Partner Violence.
Make a Change. Empower Yourself.
- Display your expertise to your patients and colleagues
- Grow your career potential
- Receive external validation of your expertise
- Boost your CV/resume
- Fortify your credibility when testifying
- Master a professional challenge
Apply by Feb. 14, 2019 to sit for the April 2019 SANE-A® and/or SANE-P® certification exam.
The International Association of Forensic Nursing is now soliciting applications for the IAFN Research Awards for FY 2019. Applications will be peer-reviewed by an internal review panel through the IAFN Research Committee. Eligibility is limited to IAFN members. Applications are due Feb. 15! Learn more.
Join us for our free, members-only Forensic Nursing Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C. Learn about the impact of healthcare policy on your forensic practice and meet with members of Congress to advocate for issues that impact forensic nursing. Training is provided. If you are interested in attending and belong to an IAFN chapter, please reach out to your chapter leadership to see how they might support you.
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Join us on Jan. 22, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern to learn how the National TeleNursing Center piloted the use of Video Conferencing Technology to support SANE/SAFE and emergency department clinicians caring for sexual assault patients across three states with diverse communities (tribal, rural, military). Free for members. Register today.
Duke University via Medical Xpress
Young people who self-harm are three times more likely to commit violent crime than those who do not, according to new research from the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University.
The study also found young people who harm themselves and commit violent crime — "dual harmers" — are more likely to have a history of childhood maltreatment and lower self-control than those who only self-harm. Thus, programs aimed at preventing childhood maltreatment or improving self-control among self-harmers could help prevent violent crime, the authors state.
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Brigham and Women's Hospital via Medical Xpress
Trauma is a leading cause of disability in the world, resulting in more disability-adjusted life years than any other disease. While in-hospital, trauma-related mortality has decreased to just four percent in the U.S., little is known about what happens to the 96 percent of patients who survive their trauma injuries but may suffer debilitating long-term effects.
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Science Magazine
In a recent study exploring the feasibility of introducing gun safety discussions and interventions into routine healthcare settings, investigators suggest that there is some support for promoting firearm safety in pediatric primary care as a universal suicide prevention strategy for adolescents.
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Thomas Reuters Foundation
Up to three in 10 women seeking family planning healthcare in the United States have suffered coercive control over their reproductive choices, researchers said recently.
Women experienced abuse ranging from pressure over reproductive choices to deliberate sabotage of contraception to threats of violence if they did not comply, a review of studies in the journal BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health found.
“It’s something that I think is still a bit unrecognized,” lead author Professor Sam Rowlands told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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MD Magazine
Black and Hispanic men who have sex with men tend to have higher rates — sometimes much higher rates — of HIV and syphilis than their white counterparts, but a new analysis found that the size of the disparity varies considerably from one state to the next.
First author Patrick Sullivan, DVM, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, told MD Magazine that several key factors can vary from state to state, leading to the high disparities.
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ABC News
Attempts to reduce the spread of a disease that can kill newborn children have been labelled a "total failure" by an expert medical group.
Federal health data shows 896 Indigenous men and women have been infected with syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection, since it spread from north Queensland in 2013, now reaching three states and the Northern Territory.
That includes around 30 new cases in the NT per month — a far higher rate than in other jurisdictions.
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Vanity Fair
On the morning of May 11, 2008, a U.S. Army private second class named Matthew Warren Brown died of a single gunshot wound to the head while manning a watchtower at a forward operating base in Afghanistan. Brown was 20 years old. He was a skinny, all-American kid, a bit aimless but affable and unassuming. He was a good guy. You could see it in his face. At his funeral back home in Pennsylvania, some 200 people showed up.
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Birmingham Mail
Cases of super-gonorrhoea are going up amid an increase in antibiotic resistance, it has been warned.
The superbug is untreatable and spreads through sex — and in 2018 at least three people in the world were infected with it.
A report by PHE has warned that resistance to three of the key drugs used to treat the infection has grown, which in turn limits the options to treat the disease.
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