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 I am pleased to announce the selection of Donna Sabella, MEd, MSN, PhD, CRNP, PMHNP-BC as the chair of IAFN's new Social Justice Committee. Donna holds the Seedworks Endowed Associate Professorship in Nursing and Social Justice at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's College of Nursing. Donna is an internationally recognized expert in the area of human trafficking. She has been a member of IAFN since 2010. We feel she has the knowledge and passion to help fulfill the objectives set forth in the Social Justice Pillar of the IAFN 2018-2022 Strategic Plan. We look forward to working with her to make IAFN an organization that is responsive to the Social Justice needs of our members and the patients and communities that benefit from forensic nursing care.
Help us recognize those who are doing outstanding work in the field of forensic nursing - caring for patients, working in the community, teaching in the classroom, or publishing research.
This weeks highlighted award: IAFN Front Line Forensic Nurse of the Year Award
Who is a candidate?
Anyone who:
- Provides exceptional direct patient/client care in a forensic setting
- Exhibits compassion and personal sacrifice on behalf of their patients/clients
- Demonstrates extraordinary care that creates significant benefit to their patients/clients
Honorees will be recognized during the 2018 International Conference on Forensic Nursing Science and Practice in Reno, Nevada, Oct. 24-27, 2018.
Award Nominations Close April 13, 2018. Nominate today!
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IAFN is working on a lot of great educational offerings and resources. Our preferred method of communicating these benefits to you is through email, weekly-newsletter, and website. Please login today. If you don’t know your username and password, please email Marisa at mraso@forensicnurses.org.
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These courses are offered FREE to registered nurses, advanced practice nurses, physicians, and physician assistants who are caring for American Indian/Alaska Native patients in the USA. Registration is now open for the trainings listed below. Register at: www.tribalforensichealthcare.org No additional trainings will be added to the schedule until late August 2018.
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Ruidoso News
Victims of sexual assaults and domestic violence in Lincoln County no longer must drive 70 miles to Otero County to see a nurse specifically trained to evaluate such cases and preserve evidence.
Specialized Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner programs have provided free medical and forensic services to victims of sexual assault for many years nationally, and in Otero County since 2003, but until late 2017, victims in Lincoln County had to travel more than an hour to be seen by a trained specialized SANE nurse.
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WMAR-TV
The GBMC Sexual Assault Forensic Examination (SAFE) program offers quality care to victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.
The 17 SAFE nurses and 5 advocates are specially trained in forensics and the program provides examinations, resources, care, and comfort to patients free of charge. “We see patients in trauma and it can be hard to separate” says Valerie Weir, a nurse with the program.
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The Heights
“That’s her,” said Holden Ford, FBI special agent, to Bill Tench as a yellow taxi pulled up.
Out steps the professor, Wendy Carr, to consult on Ford’s project and help with the classification of subjects in the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit. Her introduction comes after Ford states she “has something,” prompting the gruff Tench to comment on Carr’s beauty only to be refuted by Ford’s excitement at her interest in the project.
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The Interpreter
The brutalisation of women in India has increased alarmingly in recent times. Rape, molestation, and abuse have spiralled out of control, with the incidents of violence becoming uglier and more frightening.
Violence against women happens everywhere. While its causes vary in different settings, in India the root of sexual violence is largely seeped in cultural factors and values that have continued in perpetuity.
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KING-TV
Not all hospitals in Washington state provide the same level of care for victims of sexual assault, but a bill passed during this past legislative session aims to change that.
“My story begins when after my assault, I went to the closest emergency room and was turned away because they didn't do rape kits there,” said Griffin, who since her attack, has fought for federal and state legislation to help other survivors.
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Inlander
Under a new law, Washington state will look at what it would take to get more nurses trained in collecting evidence from victims of sex crimes into hospitals around the state.
The law doesn't yet call for specific changes in the way hospitals or communities utilize sexual assault nurse examiners (also known as SANEs), who are nurses that have received specific training on how to collect evidence while minimizing further trauma to victims.
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