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The International Association of Forensic Nurses is delighted to invite you to register for the 2015 International Conference on Forensic Nursing Science and Practice, to be held Oct. 28-31, 2015, in Orlando, Florida.
Take advantage of the Early Registration rate of $525 USD for Members and $654 USD for Nonmembers. Early Registration ends July 31, 2015. This is a four day conference and registration includes continental breakfast and three lunches. Register Now
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Forensic Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice (forthcoming)
Please visit: http://www.forensicnurses.org/?page=ScopeAndStandards
Deadline is June 28, 2015.
The now newspaper
Lynn Gifford leads a team of 20 forensic nurses at Surrey Memorial Hospital. Forensic nurses play a vital role in helping victims of violence find the courage to make changes in their lives. The patients come from across the Lower Mainland.
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Renton Reporter
Starting this summer, highly trained nurses will come to Valley Medical Center to administer sexual-assault exams that can provide the critical evidence needed to send a rapist to prison. The exams, also known as “rape kits,” have always been available at Valley; but about a year ago Valley administrators reached out to UW Medicine after hospital nurses expressed concern about the exacting demands, both medical and legal, of their administration.
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Arca Max
Instructor SLUH Nurse Kathy Howard reminds students to properly label each item of clothing in a separate paper bag at a Sexual Assault Nurse Examine (SANE) certification workshop at the YWCA in Clayton, Missouri. Police, prosecutors and victims' advocates from the YWCA are getting together to train nurses to become forensic nurses and help collect evidence from patients who are crime victims. (Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS)
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National Forensic Nursing Forum
Due to the event's success in previous years, Informa Australia will be running the 3rd Annual National Forensic Nursing Forum on the 26th of August, at the Rendezvous Grand Hotel in Melbourne.
Proudly endorsed by the International Association of Forensic Nurses & FAMSACA, this event will provide a national forum focusing on policy and practice, research & collaboration across the primary forensic nursing roles — including Forensic Psychiatric Nurses, Clinical Forensic Nurses, Forensic Nurse Examiners, Forensic Correctional Nurses, Legal Nurse Consultants & Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners, together with the key stakeholders including prisons, police, academia & the healthcare system as a whole.
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Salon
As the Independent reports, Survivors UK — the largest and one of only a handful of its kind — received £70,000 a year for the past four years from the Ministry of Justice victims’ fund for its services for survivors of both “childhood sexual abuse and adult sexual assault/rape.” The charity has now launched a Change.org petition asking to “to recognize and support male victims of rape and sexual abuse,” and notes that in London alone, there’s been an increase of 120 percent increase in male rape reporting over just a two-year period.
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Huffington Post
An investigative report by NARAL Pro-Choice California found that 91 percent of crisis pregnancy centers told women that abortion was linked to breast cancer, infertility, miscarriage or suicide. These centers often push resources for pre-natal care or adoption services, but refuse to inform women of alternate options such as contraception or abortion. AB 775, the Reproductive FACT Act, by Assembly member David Chiu (D-San Francisco) and Assembly member Autumn Burke (D-Inglewood), would compel crisis pregnancy centers to offer factual information about all options available to pregnant women and also to disclose if a facility is unlicensed.
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Upworthy
The elementary school kids in this video by Wavecrest Films are unexpectedly articulate about their emotions. These kids benefitted from social-emotional learning and coaching in mindfulness at a charter school in Mar Vista, California.
It's obvious that they have a grasp on understanding feelings that eludes most adults, and, frankly, it's a life skill that all of us could stand to learn regardless of age.
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Time.com
A California bill would impose a mandatory minimum punishment of two years suspension for students found responsible for rape by colleges, signaling a new phase in the fight against campus sexual assault that even some reformers worry could go too far. The legislation, part of a package of bills that would also change community college sexual assault policies and colleges’ reporting of rape data, passed overwhelmingly in the California Assembly soon. It next heads to the state Senate.
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Business Insider
Sudan confiscated issues of 10 major newspapers in response to reports they carried on sexual assaults on children in Sudan, newspaper editors and a security source said.
The newspapers had published a story recently based on a speech by an activist who said rape and sexual harassment were common on vehicles taking children to school. According to a source at the National Intelligence and Security Service, four of the newspapers would be prevented from publishing for several more days, and the state may pursue charges against some of the newspapers.
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Hospitals & Health Networks
Advocates of healthcare reform often talk about the Triple Aim. However, there is a key component missing from that model: restoring joy to the practice of medicine.
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Time.com
Sexual violence against children is a global problem — and few receive supportive services exist for its victims, according to recent data released from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The study authors report that high levels of sexual violence experienced in children — and low levels of support afterward — can cause a cascade of lifelong struggles, including unwanted pregnancy, depression and disease. Still, the researchers note that understanding the prevalence of sexual violence can help in the formation of interventions for various countries.
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By Keith Carlson
The Atlantic recently published an article entitled, "The Problem With Satisfied Patients." The subtitle of the article — "A misguided attempt to improve healthcare has led some hospitals to focus on making people happy, rather than making them well" — makes the focus of the piece quite clear. This piece underscores the reality that hospital reimbursements are now being linked to patient satisfaction scores. But what would happen if we focused on nurse satisfaction?
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HealthLeaders Media
Concern for the hospital's bottom line has traditionally been outside the realm of RNs, but understanding healthcare costs gives them an advantage in improving patient care and insight into leadership challenges.
From the time we enter school, nurses are taught to be advocates who champion our patients' needs regardless of their diagnosis, social standing, or access to resources.
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Center for Disease Control and Prevention
These guidelines for the treatment of persons who have or are at risk for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) were updated by CDC after consultation with a group of professionals knowledgeable in the field of STDs who met in Atlanta on April 30–May 2, 2013. The information in this report updates the Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines, 2010 (MMWR Recomm Rep 2010;59 [No. RR–12]). Physicians and other health-care providers can use these guidelines to assist in the prevention and treatment of STDs.
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