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NPR
Domestic violence is common among adults, and women are most frequently the victims. In fact, nearly half of women killed by homicide in the United States are killed by their former or current intimate partners.
Now a new study finds that this kind of violence also poses a risk to the lives of adolescent girls.
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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.
Demystifying Care of Patients with Mental Illness Following a Sexual Assault
June 10, 2019; 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Eastern
Recent research suggests that up to 40 percent of patients who present for care following a sexual assault have some history of mental illness. But there has been limited academic work that examines unique considerations that may arise when caring for this patient population. How do we best provide medical care and forensic services for patients with mental illness in the acute setting following a reported sexual assault? How do we determine when it is, and is not, appropriate to offer a sexual assault medical forensic exam (SAMFE)? In this webinar, an interdisciplinary panel of SANEs and psychiatrists will highlight some of the challenges faced and questions that may arise. Register.
Identifying and Protecting Campus Survivors' Privacy Rights: Schools, SANEs and Student Survivors
May 16, 2019; 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Eastern
Students who are sexually assaulted face some unique issues in terms of privacy. Healthcare providers should recognize those privacy issues and the applicability to the care they provide to the patient at the time of the exam and in any proceedings that follow in criminal, civil or administrative hearings. The SANE should be aware of the relevant laws that impact patient privacy and campus laws. During this webinar we will discuss common privacy issues for campus survivors and the potential impact this can have when care is delivered in different settings. Register.
IAFN is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Join IAFN in Cleveland, OH on May 10, 2019 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for this course which includes full access to the new online IAFN Pediatric Strangulation Case Review and Assessment Program.
This course will offer Nursing Contact Hours and CME AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.
The Postgraduate Institute for Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ and the enduring activity for 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The Southern California chapter’s spring training will be held on April 27, 2019 in Escondido.
The New York chapter’s 2019 conference will be held May 9-10, 2019 in Saratoga Springs.
The Wisconsin chapter’s annual conference will be held May 13-15, 2019 in La Crosse.
The Virginia chapter is hosting their annual conference May 15-17, 2019 in Bedford.
The North Carolina chapter is hosting a conference on May 20, 2019 in Raleigh.
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The Canadian Press via 660 CityNews
The national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women is fighting in court for access to two RCMP files the national police force is refusing to hand over.
The inquiry is set to issue its long-awaited report in June, but says it wants the contested Mountie files to complete its work on one of the saddest chapters in Canada’s recent history.
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Texas A&M University via Medical Xpress
Stephen Maren, University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, recently published significant research on the psychological and neural basis of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, one of the most-cited scientific journals in the world, the study looked at the areas of the brain that regulate emotion, including ceasing fear once danger has passed. Other factors, such as stress, can cause extinguished emotions of fear to relapse, which poses an issue for those with PTSD.
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Brown University via Medical Xpress
Across cultures and geographic locations, the teen years are a time of growth, development and exploration into adult interactions—and romantic and sexual relationships are often some of the most critical interactions that many teenagers navigate.
A series of new studies by researchers at Brown University examines how teenagers in the United States and South Africa work through these challenges, in the hope that the findings will inform new, targeted educational programs and interventions to prevent sexual violence among teenagers locally and globally.
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Health-E News
Medical and legal experts have welcomed updates to the J88 form – the official form used by health workers to document injuries of victims of violence in preparation for a legal case.
State Advocate Pule Mathaha, who took part in recent training on the form organized by the Foundation for Human Rights, said the changes will make the form easier to prosecute attackers.
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CNN
The UK government and Nigeria's anti-trafficking agency launched a new media campaign to prevent women and girls from being exploited and sold into modern-day slavery.
The Department for International Development said the 'NotForSale' campaign aims to encourage Nigerians to find jobs at home instead of risking their lives to travel to foreign countries in search of work.
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The Moscow Times
Russia has breached the rights of a Chechen domestic abuse victim, a United Nations women’s rights panel ruled, in what has been called the UN’s first decision on domestic violence in the country.
Domestic violence complaints have skyrocketed since President Vladimir Putin passed a 2017 law decriminalizing first-time abuse where beatings resulted in “minor harm.” Each year, 12,000 women are killed in Russia as a result of domestic violence, according to official numbers.
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NPR
Empathy seems like a good quality in human beings. Pure and simple.
It allows us to consider the perspective of others — to put ourselves in their shoes and imagine their experiences. From that empathetic vantage point, only good things can come, right?
Not necessarily, according to author Fritz Breithaupt. "Sometimes we commit atrocities not out of a failure of empathy but rather as a direct consequence of successful, even overly successful, empathy," he writes in his forthcoming book The Dark Sides of Empathy.
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Reuters
Mexico’s few shelters for victims of human trafficking are under threat — one has recently closed and another is on the brink — following a government crackdown on funding for non-profits that campaigners say could leave vulnerable women in fresh danger.
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U.S. Department of Justice
The Justice Department presented Diana Faugno, a forensics nurse at the Eisenhower Medical Center and Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center in Rancho Mirage, California, with the Allied Professional Award during the annual National Crime Victims’ Service Awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. This award recognizes individuals from a specific discipline outside the victim assistance field for their service to victims and/or contributions to the victim assistance field.
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Temple University Health System via EurekAlert!
A research team led by Jessica H. Beard, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Trauma & Surgical Critical Care at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, set out to calculate the number and analyze trends in the rates of FIPs transported at clustered time intervals to Philadelphia-area hospitals over an 11-year period.
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Times Now News
When we talk about traumatic brain injuries, we often think of car accidents, dreadful falls, sports injuries, or a violent blow — especially to the head. But research suggests that there is an invisible and unrecognized global public health epidemic — intimate partner violence — which is spreading at an alarming rate.
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Medpage Today
The country has reached an important tipping point, and it's important for physicians to speak about moral issues that affect their patients, former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, said at the annual meeting of the American College of Physicians.
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Reuters
Chile will soon start punishing rampant street sexual harassment against women and girls with fines and prison terms, but getting victims to speak up will be a significant challenge, experts said.
A law passed this month and expected to come into force within weeks aims to curb street harassment ranging from lewd comments, groping and stalking to men masturbating in public.
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Reuters Health
About seven in 10 young female surgeons say they have experienced at least one form of sexual harassment during their training, according to a new survey.
That was true for nearly half of surgery trainees of both genders, researchers found.
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Medpage Today
The coming retirement of baby boomer nurses will include the majority of current nurse managers and lead to a significant knowledge and skills gap. Healthcare administrators and nursing leaders will look to younger nurses to fill this void — generation X (born roughly from 1965–1980), and millennials (roughly 1981–2000).
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