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Liz Louden RN, BN, MSN, SANE -A
As I connect with and meet so many of you, I am reminded of the strength in partnership when we work to achieve common goals. This year it is more important than ever that we be able to articulate our message: all patients deserve access to forensic nurses.
Let me encourage and welcome you to our upcoming Leadership and Lobby Days this April. Learn how to craft your message. Learn how to use your voice. Read more.
Patient-centered Reforms Should Ensure Patients Access to Provider of Choice
America's leading nursing organizations and the over 3.5 million nurses they represent, called on the Trump Administration and Congress to prioritize patient health and the patient-provider relationship in any health reform proposals. Read more.
IAFN is once again collaborating with the American Nurses Foundation (ANF) to offer a $10,000 research grant to a forensic nurse researcher. Preference will be given to applicants who are members of the International Association of Forensic Nurses. If there are no member applications, or no high-quality proposals from association members, non-member applicants will be considered, with the selected grantee required to become a member of IAFN in order to receive funding. The focus of this grant is restricted to research focused on forensic nursing science.
This award is part of the 2017 Nursing Research Grants which offers nursing research awards to beginner and experienced nurse researchers. Information about all of the awards is available here.
The online application is available now.
All applications must be completed by 11:59 p.m. on May 1.
The March 2017 issue of Journal of Forensic Nursing® will not be published in app format and on May 1, the app itself will be removed from the app store.
So that we can continue to provide our readers with an optimum digital experience, we have implemented “Responsive Design” of the Journal of Forensic Nursing® website. This new design is essentially a way to ensure that the website are usable on various devices, providing a consistent and pleasant reading experience. With the roll out of Responsive Design, we are beginning to discontinue the app for the Journal of Forensic Nursing®. You can continue to view the online version of the journal at www.ForensicNurses.org.
National Institute of Justice
Teen dating violence, also called adolescent relationship abuse, is a serious public health problem. There is still much we do not understand about the nature and scope of this problem. Results of an NIJ-funded study can help change that. The study — the National Survey of Teen Relationships and Intimate Violence (abbreviated “STRiV”) — is the first to provide a comprehensive national portrait of teen dating violence with detailed measurements of both who perpetrates such violence and who has been victimized.
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NPR
After a newspaper investigation concluded that one-fifth of all sexual assault complaints in Canada were dismissed as "unfounded," or baseless — a far higher percentage than for other types of crime — police forces across the country are revisiting old cases.
In total, police forces are reviewing more than 10,000 rape and assault allegations that were dismissed as "unfounded," The Globe and Mail reports.
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BuzzFeed
Maryland lawmakers Pamela Queen and Delores Kelley, who have both proposed changes to the state’s rape laws.
The rules for how Maryland handles rape allegations may soon undergo important changes. Three bills being considered by the state’s legislature all seek to make it easier for people who have been raped to get their case investigated and prosecuted. The proposed legislation comes in response to a BuzzFeed News investigation into one of the state’s largest police departments, which routinely dismissed rape allegations as “unfounded” without thoroughly investigating them.
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The Pryor Daily Times
Legislation that seeks to consider all rape by instrumentation as rape in the first degree is one step closer to becoming a law after the House of Representatives unanimously voted to approve the measure 95-0.
Rep. Scott Biggs has now passed two laws through the House that attempt to strengthen Oklahoma’s rape laws. The first, HB2398, was passed during the 55th Oklahoma Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Mary Fallin last June.
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KXAN-TV
The same group that helped shut down Austin’s crime lab last summer is answering a big question. The Texas Forensic Science Commission wants to know how the lab’s technicians were able to examine a large number of cases if there were so many glaring problems?
However, there is another issue on the commission’s agenda. The commission is considering a proposal to standardize the way rape kits are collected in Texas.
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