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FORENSIC NURSES UPDATES |
Check out the latest addition to IAFN's Online Learning Center: HIV PEP in Pre Pubertal Patients with Dr. Dana Kaplan M.D., FAAP
Members: Take advantage of our Members-Only "10 days for $10" promotion. Purchase in the first 10 days (before June 30, 2016), and this one-hour session will cost only $10 for members. That includes 1.0 Nursing CE! Purchase now and you can view HIV PEP in Pre Pubertal Patients anytime, as often as you like for the next year!
IAFN is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Apply to sit for the September 2016 SANE-A® and/or SANE-P® certification exam.
To learn more, download the 2016 Certification Examination Handbook or visit the “Take the Exam” page at www.ForensicNurses.org. Apply by mail, fax, email, or online by July 22, 2016.
Your exam results have been mailed! Please contact us if you have not received your packet by June 30, 2016. If you have any questions, please email certification@ForensicNurses.org Best wishes!
To learn more about SANE certification and/or Advanced Forensic Nursing certification, please visit our site to access our helpful video tutorials, handbooks, and eligibility requirements.
Thursday, Sept. 29 - Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016
Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel | Denver, CO USA
Click here to download the Registration Brochure
Register before the Early Discount deadline of July 31, 2016. Plus, don't forget to begin or renew your IAFN membership BEFORE registering for the conference to take advantage of the member rate. Many sessions are first-come, first-served with limited seating available. Register early to get the best rate and lock in the sessions you want.
Click here for more information and to register.
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INDUSTRY NEWS |
International Association of Coroners & Medical Examiners
Registration is now open for the IAC&ME Annual Training Conference, which will be held July 23 – 29, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Advanced Medicolegal General Conference will be the main conference session.
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Office on Women's Health
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Office of Women's Health (OWH) funded the development of this e-learning course in response to the need for accessible, innovative training of healthcare providers on how to respond to intimate partner violence (IPV), commonly known as domestic violence. The primary goal of this e-learning course is to train healthcare providers on how to screen, assess, treat, and refer female patients that may be victims of domestic violence and/or sexual assault.
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Office of Justice Programs
The 2017 National Crime Victims' Service Awards nomination period is now open. View past recipients and, if you know a similarly deserving individual, group, team, or program, watch the video above for instructions on how to submit a nomination. Nominations are due by July 31, 2016.
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NIWRC
In recognition of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, June 15, 2016, NIWRC is pleased to present this webinar. World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) began ten years ago in 2006 by the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse and the World Health Organization at the United Nations to provide an opportunity for people and communities around the world “to promote a better understanding of abuse and neglect of older persons by raising awareness of the cultural, social, economic and demographic processes affecting elder abuse and neglect.”
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National Institute of Justice
An NIJ-funded study shows that American Indian and Alaska Native women and men suffer violence at alarmingly high rates.
More than four in five American Indian and Alaska Native women and men have experienced violence in their lifetime, and more than one in three experienced violence in the past year, according to a new report from an NIJ-funded study.
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By Jessica Taylor
Stop what you're doing.
Read this entire article.
Share it with your friends.
Some of you may be doing this, while others are probably just ignoring it. But if I was Kilgrave, the villain in the Marvel Netflix series "Jessica Jones," you would do anything I say.
Mind control. Is it fact or fiction? Whether you want to believe it or not, mind control is a real thing in nature. But I'm not here to talk about nature. I'm here to discuss another form of mind control that you may not see every day: emotional abuse.
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The Cut
As the Stanford rape case has sparked a flurry of debate over the way U.S. courts fail to punish rapists, in Germany, another case is igniting a movement to reform Germany’s retrograde sexual-assault laws.
German model and reality-TV star Gina-Lisa Lohfink claimed that two men drugged and raped her after a night out at a German nightclub back in 2012. According to German media, the men then posted a video of the assault online (which has since been removed), in which Lohfink can be heard saying “stop it, stop it” and “no.”
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The Washington Times
In 2014, 4,964 sexual assaults were reported at four-year U.S. colleges and universities, as campuses have become plagued by an epidemic — a group of individuals who think it is OK to sexually assault others.
The Department of Education numbers are staggering regardless of what geographic region is analyzed.
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The Associated Press via Gawker
An internal review of sexual abuse at New York City’s Rikers Island jail obtained by the Associated Press, reveals systemic problems in handling complaints, including investigations that blatantly ignored video evidence, failed to keep complainants confidential, and neglected to interview accused attackers.
The federally-funded report, conducted by the Washington, D.C.-based Moss Group, reviewed all 46 sexual abuse or harassment cases closed by jail investigators in 2014.
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By Keith Carlson
 In the 21st century, increasing acceptance of transgender lifestyles is allowing many transgender individuals to more readily interface with health care providers and institutions. However, transgender individuals still face humiliation, judgment, intimidation and gross maltreatment within the health care industry, and recent lawsuits corroborate that fact. Nurses can be at the forefront of providing the transgender community with comprehensive, sensitive and compassionate care.
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The New York Times
One of the first things we learned about Omar Mateen, the gunman in the nightclub massacre in Orlando, Fla., was that his ex-wife said he had beaten her severely until she left him in 2009.
If it sounds familiar that a gunman in a mass shooting would have a history of domestic violence, it should.
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National Institute of Justice
As Director of NIJ, it is my responsibility to ensure we use science to address the multitude of complex criminal justice challenges we face today. Over the past year, the increase in homicides in several American cities has captured the attention of this Administration, respective federal agencies, local police departments, and media outlets.
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