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2020 will be a big year for nursing. It's the goalpost date that was set for the recommendations to come to fruition in the National Academy of Medicine's landmark report, "The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health," and 2020 has also been designated as the Year of the Nurse and Midwife by the World Health Organization.
So, what issues will rise to the top this year for nurse leaders?
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Members – Apply TODAY to assist in reviewing abstracts for the 2020 Conference or share your talents on an IAFN Committee. Deadlines are in less than one week!
We need YOU to join us for our free, members-only Forensic Nursing Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C.
Meet with Members of Congress to advocate for issues that impact forensic nursing. Training is provided and 2 CE are offered. IAFN is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
2020 is the year of the nurse. Make it your year to become certified! Display your expertise. Grow your career potential. Boost your CV/resume. Fortify your credibility when testifying. Apply by Feb. 6 to sit for the April exam.
Be part of this important event and share your experience with your colleagues! Abstracts will be accepted for three categories: 30-minute research/evidence-based practice sessions, 90-minute concurrent sessions, and poster sessions. Due Feb. 12, 2020. Conference tracks, session lengths, and additional details are online.
Applications are currently being accepted for the IAFN Research Awards for FY 2020. IAFN members are eligible and the deadline is February 15, 2020. Key research focus areas include research exploring health outcomes, including cost of care, of victims of violence when forensic nurses are involved in their care and research to guide clinical care of patients affected by violence.
American College of Neuropsychopharmacology via EurekAlert!
Childhood adversity is a significant problem in the U.S., particularly for children growing up in poverty. Those who experience poverty have a much higher risk of being exposed to violence and suffering from a lack of social support, which can have long-term consequences including higher rates of diabetes, cancer, and other diseases.
People exposed to childhood adversity may also be more likely to have brain changes in adolescence that indicate an altered response to threat, according to a new study by University of Michigan's Christopher Monk and Leigh Goetschius and others. However, social supports may act as a buffer and reduce the negative effects of early-life stress.
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Harvard Medical School
In 2017, for every person who died of a firearm injury in the U.S., three survived. But the burden of firearm injuries is not limited to death.
A new study led by investigators from Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital finds that six to 12 months after traumatic injury the rates of chronic pain, post-traumatic stress disorder and other poor physical and mental health outcomes were alarmingly high among survivors of firearm violence—higher than among those who had sustained similar injuries in motor vehicle crashes.
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CBC
"Oh my God, this is the craziest thing I've ever seen."
That was a video game streamer's first thought on Dec. 16, when he spotted a video on social media — the disturbing video that would lead the Canadian to spend the next 24 hours tracking down evidence and providing it to police.
It resulted in a Calgary woman being charged for allegedly assaulting a child.
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The Conversation via Medical Xpress
How similar do you think you are to your second cousin? Or your estranged great aunt?
Would you like to have people assess your behavior from what your great aunt has done? How would you feel if courts used data gained from them to decide how you are likely to behave in the future?
Scientists are making connections between a person's DNA and their tendencies for certain kinds of behavior. At the same time, commercial DNA databases are becoming more common and police are gaining access to them.
When these trends combine, genetic data inferred about offenders from their relatives might one day be used by courts to determine sentences. In the future, the data from your great aunt could be used by a court to determine how severely you are punished for a crime.
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University of Arizona via EurekAlert!
Early morning blue light exposure therapy can aid the healing process of people impact by mild traumatic brain injury, according to new research from the University of Arizona.
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Boston University School of Medicine via Medical Xpress
Virginity testing is a complex, culturally mediated practice that is poorly understood by Western clinicians. Although there is published literature on the ethics of "virginity" testing and on the lack of reliability of a hymen examination to determine "virginity," little practical guidance has been published for clinicians who may encounter requests for virginity testing in the clinical setting.
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University of Manitoba
University of Manitoba researchers have found that disruptive behaviors are happening all too often in the operating room – and many clinicians who see the behavior are not reporting it to management.
A new study, published in the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, found that almost all clinicians (97 percent) did not report all of the disruptive behavior they observed, and three out of every 10 clinicians never reported the behavior at all. Clinicians who were young, female or not in management were more likely to never report the behavior.
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Wired
Unfolding right now across swaths of Australia is an ecological catastrophe, as massive, turbo-charged fires reduce whole landscapes to nothingness. Tens of thousands of koalas had no way of escaping. Livestock lie dead in fields. Innumerable animals have perished, with many species likely pushed to extinction. The few survivors could well starve or fall victim to predators.
We’ll never know the true toll of this mass mortality event, or MME as scientists call it, but we know this: The cadavers that litter the Australian landscape are now rotting, kicking off a cascade of ecological consequences and potentially imperiling human health.
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