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IAFN
I am pleased to announce that the Association's Board of Directors has approved recent updates to the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Education Guidelines. The Guidelines have not substantively changed, but rather, certain sections have been clarified regarding course hours, and didactic versus clinical content.
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Friday, Aug. 14, 2015
1:00 PM EDT
1 hour in duration
This webinar will review the newly updated IAFN SANE Education Guidelines (2015). Following review of the Guidelines, representatives from Education and Certification will be on hand to address any questions participants may have. This webinar will be recorded and available for future viewing on the IAFN and SAFEta websites. No continuing education credit will be offered. Register today!
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Do you provide care for American Indian or Alaska Native patients in the US? Join the Tribal Forensic Healthcare Project for an upcoming Webinar or Training. Access the list of topics, dates, and locations at http://www.tribalforensichealthcare.org
Registration is free to healthcare providers from Indian Health Service (IHS), Tribal, and Urban Indian health care facilities and to providers from other facilities that serve American Indian or Alaska Native victims of sexual assault. All providers must serve American Indians/Alaska Natives in the US and must include the name of the tribes, pueblos, or villages they serve on their registration forms.
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Take advantage of the Regular Registration rate of $550 USD for Members and $679 USD for Nonmembers. Regular Registration ends Sept. 25, 2015. Earn up to 19.5 nursing contact hours by attending.
New this year is a full multidisciplinary track that includes sessions on "Evidence-Based Use of Alternate Light Sources in Forensic Medical Practice", "Development of a Campus Sexual Assault Response Team", "The Mystique of GHB: Death, Addiction, Suicide, Rape, Overdose, and Even Murder", "Behind Closed Doors--Commercial Sex Trafficking of Children", "Y Change? Forensic Nursing Practice Implications of Touch DNA and Y-STR DNA Analysis Methods", and "Organizing and Transferring SANE/SAFE/SART Knowledge and Best Practices: Stepping into the Future". These specific sessions are designed to be applicable to all sexual assault response/multidisciplinary team members. The Saturday closing keynote is a screening of the highly anticipated film “The Hunting Ground.” Register early before the workshops are full!
PM 360
The clinical tool Predicting Abusive Head Trauma (PredAHT) can support medical professionals in determining the likelihood that a pediatric head trauma case is abusive given its validation in a recent study.
“Given the rarity of abusive head trauma for clinicians who are not child abuse specialists, it is important to be able to explicitly define which combination of clinical features carries a high probability of abuse when a clinical work-up has been conducted,” wrote Laura Elizabeth Cowley of Cardiff (Wales) University and her associates.
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ANA
What is care coordination? According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), care coordination involves deliberately organizing patient care activities and sharing information among all of the participants concerned with a patient's care to achieve safer and more effective care. What does that mean to you as a nurse?
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Office of Justice Programs
Many factors can influence study design, particularly when evaluating an intervention in the field. Although randomized controlled trials are considered the gold standard of evaluations, there are practical and ethical considerations that may exclude their use. This case study looks at those factors and their impact on an evaluation of an intimate partner violence intervention.
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Health Leaders Media
When Kathleen Turner, RN, BSN, enrolled in nursing school, she intended on becoming a hospice nurse.
"My mother had worked for hospice for a long time, and she and I had cared for my grandmother in the last six months of her life," says Turner. "And seeing how those hospice nurses were with my family, that's what I wanted to do."
But for her final clinical rotation, Turner's instructor threw her a curveball and assigned her to, of all places, an intensive care unit.
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WTOP-TV
In April, a former Montgomery County substitute teacher pleaded guilty to groping two middle school girls. A month later, a county music teacher pleaded guilty to abusing 15 minors. Many of the incidents took place in classrooms during school hours.
While there seems to be a spike in these occurrences, there’s no data to confirm that.
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WBUR-FM
More than 70,000 untested rape kits in more than 1,000 police departments across the country. We’ll ask why. he experience of rape is harrowing enough. Then, after the sexual assault, comes the collection of physical evidence. From, most often, a woman’s body. Another trauma, in its way. The “rape kit.” Women do it because it gathers DNA evidence and more.
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News-Medical
The drive to improve quality in the education sector is similar to that in health care, and lessons from the schools system are relevant to nursing leadership.
Nurse leaders in the can learn management and leadership lessons from school head teachers, according to an article in July's Nursing Management journal.
The article suggests that there are relevant and transferable lessons the health service can learn from the education sector for managers at all levels, including heads of nursing, matrons, and executive directors of nursing.
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By Keith Carlson
Nursing teams have the potential to be dynamic and powerful entities, and creating and maintaining them is a process worthy of considerable attention. Cultivating team spirit and camaraderie among nurses is not something to be left to chance. Having said that, many managers who lack the savvy or willingness to manifest a winning team will often leave the group to its own devices. Work and determination are essential for a team's success, and leadership is a key ingredient.
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RevCycle Intelligence
ICD-10 implementation will begin on Oct. 1, 2015, and as such, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the American Medical Association (AMA) announced that, in order to ease the transition, they will be flexible when filing claims that do not use specific enough codes. On July 27, the organizations released a frequently asked questions list regarding the guidance.
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