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Gaps in previous International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification codes failing to “capture the profoundly exploitive nature of [human] trafficking” have led to the inclusion of trafficking-specific codes in the 2019 ICD-10-CM update.
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"Advocacy Day is about connection- whether it’s speaking to your legislators, meeting other IAFN members, or catching up with old friends. It’s a great opportunity to be able to unite and connect for a common cause.”
- Erin Pollitt , 2019 Advocacy Day attendee
Advocacy Day 2019 began with a training on communication, leadership and current policy issues related to Forensic Nursing. We were joined by IAFN’s Public Policy representative, Patrick Cooney and Ingrida Lusis, Vice President Policy and Government Affairs for the American Nurses Association who provided information on the Survivors' Access to Supportive Care Act (SASCA), the re-authorization of the violence Against Women Act (VAWA), and providing funding to address the needs of the nursing community to assist assault survivors. You can read more about these in IAFN's Current Issue Briefs.
In the afternoon, members partnered up to visit their legislators or joined another member between appointments.
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What happens if a victim doesn’t have transportation to the post assault healthcare services they need? What if the crime occurs in a rural area and the only clinic with trained SANEs is located hours away? Affordable, safe, discrete, and reliable transportation is key to ensuring that victims of sexual assault have access to medical-forensic exams.
Join IAFN’s SAFEta project and EVAWI on Thursday March 7, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern for a discussion with guests from organizations around the country that are providing a range of transportation options for sexual assault survivors.
Nursing Contact Hours will be available for IAFN Members.
IAFN is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Each year, the Association seeks to identify and recognize those individuals who have contributed significantly to the advancement of forensic nursing and to the growth and success of International Association of Forensic Nurses. Please consider nominating individuals you know who deserve recognition.
Were you last SANE-A® or SANE-P® certified in 2016? This is your year to renew! Your CE accrual start date is now tailored to YOU - based on the date you last certified. See the renewal page for details and apply online. Save $100 when your applications is received by April 30, 2019.
Our members are our best ambassadors! Starting March 1, when you recruit a new IAFN member, you are eligible for great prizes! Full details are coming soon – watch your email.
The 2019 International Conference on Forensic Nursing Science and Practice is an opportunity for forensic nursing clinicians and researchers to exchange knowledge and discuss new approaches to practice. Be part of this important conversation! Submit a proposal to speak or present your poster.
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Iowa State University via PhysOrg
Images of extensive flooding or fire-ravaged communities help us see how climate change is accelerating the severity of natural disasters. The devastation is obvious, but what is not as clear is the indirect effect of these disasters, or more generally of rapid climate change, on violence and aggression.
That is what Craig Anderson sees. The Iowa State University Distinguished Professor of psychology and Andreas Miles-Novelo, an ISU graduate student and lead author, identified three ways climate change will increase the likelihood of violence, based on established models of aggression and violence. Their research is published in the journal Current Climate Change Reports.
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New York University via Medical Xpress
New nurses are predominantly working 12-hour shifts and nearly half work overtime, trends that have remained relatively stable over the past decade, finds a new study by researchers at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. In addition, 13 percent hold a second job, according to the study published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing.
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NPR
One of the goals President Trump announced in his State of the Union address was to stop the spread of HIV in the U.S. within 10 years.
In addition to sending extra money to 48 mainly urban counties, Washington, D.C., and San Juan, Puerto Rico, Trump's plan targets seven states where rural transmission of HIV is especially high.
Health officials and doctors treating patients with HIV in those states say any extra funding would be welcome. But they say that strategies that work in progressive cities like Seattle won't necessarily work in rural areas of Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma and South Carolina.
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Express & Star
Improvements to forensic examinations for victims of rape and sexual assault in Scotland are being considered.
Proposals to strengthen the medical treatment of victims are being consulted on by the Scottish Government, including provision for people who have not reported an incident to police.
The 12-week consultation is seeking views from health and justice organizations, medical professionals, charities and victims of sexual assault.
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NPR
Psychologist John Van Dreal has spent almost 30 years working with troubled kids. Still, it's always unsettling to get the kind of phone call he received one morning eight years ago as he was on his way to a meeting.
"I got a call from the assistant principal at North [Salem] High, reporting that a student had made some threats on the Internet," remembers Van Dreal, the director of safety and risk management for Salem-Keizer Public Schools in Salem, OR.
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Elsevier via Medical Xpress
Age and post-traumatic stress disorder are key factors that affect how coherently sexually abused children are able to recount traumatic events, according to a new study published in the journal Heliyon. The findings show that children with post-traumatic profiles are more likely than those without PTSD to provide disjointed, inconsistent narrative testimony that is marked by distinctive linguistic indicators of unprocessed trauma cognition. However, this testimony may be credible.
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Elsevier via Medical Xpress
Lifetime adversity and increased neural processing during a traumatic event combine to increase the frequency of intrusive traumatic memories and the distress they cause, according to a new study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. The increased neural processing was found in brain regions important for emotion and memory. The involuntary recollection of traumatic events is a core symptom of posttraumatic stress disorder, and the findings could help explain why some people are susceptible to the effects of traumatic experiences and others are resilient.
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The Conversation
Syphilis is a sexually transmissible infectious disease that has plagued humankind for centuries. Today, syphilis is diagnosed rapidly by a simple blood test, and easily treated with an inexpensive antibiotic. However, the disease may masquerade as other medical conditions, confusing even healthcare professionals. A delay in diagnosis and treatment may have serious medical consequences.
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University of North Carolina Health Care via Medical Xpress
Training community health workers to perform verbal autopsy interviews captured more accurate and complete data about the number and causes of deaths in a rural sub-county of Uganda than current health facility-dependent surveillance methods, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and their in-country partners. These results were published in PLOS ONE.
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The Atlantic
In February 2017, a school nurse in Plano, TX began counting women murdered by men.
Seated at her desk, beside shelves of cookbooks, novels, and books on violence against women, Dawn Wilcox, 54, scours the internet for news stories of women killed by men in the United States.
For dozens of hours each week, she digs through online news reports and obituaries to tell the stories of women killed by lovers, strangers, fathers, sons, stepbrothers, neighbors, and tenants.
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University of Southern California via Medical Xpress
An estimated 10 percent of older adults experience some form of abuse each year. However, the link between injuries and possible elder abuse may take months or years to establish and is often difficult to investigate due to poor documentation during prior medical visits.
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University of Warwick via Medical Xpress
Sibling bullying does have an effect on mental health later in life for both the victims and the bullies, and it needs to be taken more seriously by parents and healthcare professionals. There are families where sibling bullying is more likely and can be prevented, say researchers in the Department of Psychology at the University of Warwick.
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