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RegisteredNursing.org
If you are unfamiliar with forensic nursing, Jennifer Pierce-Weeks wants to change that. With a background in registered nursing, most of which dealt with sexual assault and victims of violent crimes, Pierce-Weeks developed a passion for this crucial nursing specialty. As CEO of the International Association for Forensic Nurses, she now leads a team of members and staff to serve the compassionate nurses in this niche field. Read on to learn more about forensic nursing, and to hear more about Pierce-Weeks' take on this fascinating and in-demand nursing role.
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As issues arise, the International Association of Forensic Nurses takes an official position on issues that impact forensic nursing practice and/or the patients or clients of forensic nurses. In 2018, IAFN has released statements on Corporal Punishment, Human Trafficking Awareness in the Emergency Care Setting, and Gun Violence.
On September 5, 2018 at 1:00pm Eastern, join presenters from the National TeleNursing Center (NTC) to learn how they piloted the use of Video Conferencing Technology (VCT) to support SANE/SAFE and emergency department clinicians caring for sexual assault patients across 3 states with diverse communities (tribal, rural, military). Free for IAFN Members. Register.
Nearly fifteen years have passed since landmark legislation for the prevention, detection and response to rape in prisons was signed into law by then President George W. Bush. The final Department of Justice PREA Standards became effective eight years later on August 20, 2012. In 2010, the National PREA Resource Center was established as a single-stop resource for leading research and tools related to PREA, including archived webinars, curricula, a resource library, and a newsfeed.
Interested in learning more about caring for incarcerated victims? Check out the archived webinar on Sexual Abuse Behind Bars provided through IAFN’s SAFEta project.
Bloomberg
Industry M&A may be no savior as the pace of hospital closures, particularly in hard-to-reach rural areas, seems poised to accelerate.
Hospitals have been closing at a rate of about 30 a year, according to the American Hospital Association, and patients living far from major cities may be left with even fewer hospital choices as insurers push them toward online providers like Teladoc Inc. and clinics such as CVS Health Corp’s MinuteClinic.
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The Durango Herald
New Mexico’s most populous city has made some progress to clear its backlog of untested rape kits as state public safety officials are close to erasing their own backlog.
An update from a Legislative Finance Committee shows the city of Albuquerque had tested 1,050 of 4,543 unprocessed sexual assault evidence kits as of the end of July.
The city has plans to clear the backlog by 2020.
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U.S. News & World Report
Many people think that human trafficking means kidnapping and moving victims across state or national borders.
After working with human trafficking victims as a forensic nurse and now while teaching at Texas A&M University's College of Nursing, I know that this often is not the case.
I have found that many perpetrators find, entice and sell their victims right in their own backyards.
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The New York Times (opinion)
At the start of my shift, at 7 a.m., my patient, newly admitted a few days before for a blood cancer, was talking and acting normally. By the end of my shift, 12 hours later, she had grown confused and her speech was garbled. A CT scan revealed bleeding in her brain. She was sent to intensive care and died the next day.
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KING-TV
There are few things that can make a person feel more alone and scared than being the victim of sexual assault. But there is a special team of nurses trained to make sure victims are not alone. They are Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner or SANE nurses.
The SANE program at CHI Franciscian Health was founded in 1997 and focuses on assuring compassionate care for sexual assault victims as well as assisting law enforcement in the prosecution of the crimes. It also provides education about sexual assault for the community.
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Marine Corps Times
Veterans Affairs officials may have improperly denied benefits to thousands of military sexual assault victims in recent years due to paperwork and procedural mistakes, according to a department inspector general report released.
Investigators estimate that during a six-month stretch in 2017, VA officials may have wrongly refused benefits in more than 1,300 cases, potentially traumatizing victims seeking help that previous administrators had promised.
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Four States Homepage
It's estimated that more than 321 thousand victims are sexually assaulted every year in the U.S.
”It's the sane part, S.A.N.E., the program is a comp services for patients who have been sexually assaulted. We offer comp services in that we make sure they have someplace safe to stay when they leave the hospital that they get any medical treatment that they need,” says Karen Scott, Sexual assault nurse examiner.
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Vox
One of the most extraordinary films of the year is Minding the Gap, which opens in limited theaters and on Hulu on Aug. 17. It starts out as an engrossing documentary about a group of young people in Rockford, Illinois, who skateboard together and grow up together. But as the film unfolds, it expands from being a skate movie to something much bigger.
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CNN
It was meant to be a quick run to the local village shop. Instead, it marked the beginning of a terrifying ordeal.
It was a spring afternoon when 15-year-old Maya walked into the shop in her village in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan to buy some onions for her mother.
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