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The Joint Commission
“I’ve been bitten, kicked, punched, pushed, pinched, shoved, scratched, and spat
upon,” says Lisa Tenney, RN, of the
Maryland Emergency Nurses Association. “I
have been bullied and called very ugly names. I’ve had my life, the life of my
unborn child, and of my other family members threatened, requiring security
escort to my car.”
Situations such as these describe some of the types of violence
directed
toward
healthcare workers. Workplace violence is not merely the heinous, violent events
that make the news; it is also the everyday occurrences, such as verbal abuse,
that are often overlooked.
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Renewal Certificant News for 2018: Starting this year, your CE accrual start date will be individualized based on the date you last certified. See the renewal page for more details.
Check out our SANE 365 materials including a SANE Program Development Guide and resources for SANE Program Management.
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The Hill
Delaware has become the first state to ban child marriage.
Gov. John Carney (D) signed the measure into law, setting the minimum age for marriage in the state at 18, WDEL reported.
The law went into effect immediately. Under past law, minors in the state could be married at any age with the approval of a judge.
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CNN
An ancient virus infecting residents across Australia's Northern Territory is leaving death and despair in its path, and doctors are now calling for greater efforts to stop the spread of infections. The rates of human T-cell leukemia virus type 1, or HTLV-1, infection are exceeding 40 percent among adults in remote regions of central Australia, with indigenous communities being the hardest hit, especially in the town of Alice Springs.
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ScienceDaily
An international team has developed a novel tool to accurately predict eye, hair and skin color from human biological material — even a small DNA sample — left, for example, at a crime scene or obtained from archeological remains. This all-in-one pigmentation profile tool provides a physical description of the person in a way that has not previously been possible by generating all three pigment traits together using a freely available webtool.
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Times Live
At the age of three‚ forensic nurse Cecilia Lamola displayed traits that would see her gravitate towards a career in nursing.
Lamola’s compassion for her sick siblings and other relatives made a career in nursing a natural choice. And with brutal cases of violence against women occurring daily‚ there’s an increasing need for her skills.
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TIME
The men file in, a few wearing pressed button-down shirts, others jeans caked in mud from work on a construction site. They meet in the living room of an old taupe bungalow on a leafy street in a small Southern city.
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