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It’s been a busy week for guidelines and standards. On Tuesday, IAFN released the 2018 Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Education Guidelines. The Guidelines have not substantively changed. A number of additions have been made, including competency checklists, links to planning tables, and clearly stated gap analyses and learning outcomes in keeping with the most recent ANCC requirements for continuing nursing education. The updates are listed in detail on the website.
Additionally, the US DOJ Office on Violence Against Women has released the 2nd edition of the U.S. National Training Standards for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examiners. The National Training Standards (2006) have been updated to include recommendations for training objectives and topics that will provide a blueprint for training examiners to provide specialized care to patients who have experienced sexual violence and abuse using the recommendations of both the Adult SAFE Protocol and Pediatric SAFE Protocol.
The regular registration period for IAFN’s 2018 Conference ends September 21. Don’t miss out on this year’s great keynotes, workshops, sessions, poster presentations, and more. We can’t wait to see you in Reno!
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Expand your knowledge. Build your skills. Refine your technique. The IAFN Pediatric Strangulation Case Review and Assessment program provides resources and tools to ensure you are prepared to provide evidence-based, standardized care for the pediatric patient who has experienced or is suspected of having experienced strangulation. IAFN members receive a $50 discount! Learn More.
The IAFN is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
National Forensic Science Week recognizes the contribution that forensic science makes to the criminal justice system. This year, National Forensic Science Week will be held the September 16-22.
Medscape (free login required)
Going beyond binary thinking changes the brain, akin to finding yourself in the dark; your eyes slowly adjust, and the brain accommodates. The change in the brain allows you to move forward. We do this every day, yet we prefer binary thinking. It lends clarity and comfort to an ever-changing world.
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CBC
Alberta will be providing universal coverage for PrEP — an HIV-prevention drug that is up to 99 per cent effective at stopping the transmission of the disease — beginning Oct. 1.
"It's about public health. It's about promoting health and preventing illness," said Premier Rachel Notley at a surprise announcement during a fundraiser brunch for Camp fYrefly, a leadership retreat for queer and trans youth on Saturday.
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CDC
Oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma is now the most common HPV-associated cancer. During 1999–2015 cervical carcinoma incidence rates decreased 1.6% per year, and oropharyngeal SCC incidence rates increased 2.7% per year among men and 0.8% per year among women.
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Pacific Standard
There's a disturbing pattern of missing and murdered indigenous women throughout North America. In 2015, a quarter of all murdered Canadian women were indigenous, and we're less than 5 percent of the population. It can be difficult to tally the number of missing or assaulted indigenous women in North America, but, in the United States, the National Institute of Justice reports that over half of Native women have experienced sexual violence in their lifetime, and 38 percent were unable to receive victim services.
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The Canadian Press via Richmond News
Federal health researchers are looking to mine social media to more quickly identify suicide-related behaviors, instead of relying on woefully outdated data.
What the Public Health Agency of Canada wants is an artificial intelligence program that combs social media platforms for keywords to give its researchers a better view of trends and risk factors linked to suicide-related behaviors.
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PBS
In 2016, more than 250,000 people worldwide died as a result of firearms, and half of all of those deaths came from six nations, including the U.S.
The new numbers, from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s latest study of Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors, offer several new ways to measure the impact of gun deaths worldwide.
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Science Magazine
Providing "targeted" social support to other people in need activates regions of the brain involved in parental care — which may help researchers understand the positive health effects of social ties, reports a study in Psychosomatic Medicine: Journal of Biobehavioral Medicine. By comparison, providing "untargeted" support such as giving to charity does not have the same neurobiological effects, according to the new research.
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Delta Optimist
The BC Nurses’ Union is calling for security in every unit at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Coquitlam after two nurses were recently assaulted. One was treated for severe facial injuries while the other suffered head injuries after being sucker-punched.
This is not a new request, though, as the nurses’ union has been asking for more help to prevent violence in the workplace for several years.
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CBC
The first long-term shelter for victims of sexual exploitation will open this week in the Montreal region, providing a stepping stone for survivors who are trying to reintegrate into society.
Opening Friday, the new facility will have a full-time counsellor on site and another that will visit on an ad hoc basis, helping victims rebuild their lives.
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The Washington Post
Students accused of sexual misconduct would have greater rights to defend themselves in college disciplinary inquiries under draft regulations circulating within the Education Department, officials familiar with the proposal said.
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CNN
Nearly a quarter of 14-year-old girls in the United Kingdom have self-harmed, with many facing overwhelming pressures over how they should look, their sexuality and how they behave, according to a new report by The Children's Society.
It found that 22% of 14-year-old girls had self-harmed in the course of a year, compared with 9% of boys.
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Greater Good Magazine
I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty crushed by all of the bad news these days. Frightened children separated from parents at the U.S. border; politicians involved in money laundering and sex scandals; gun violence in schools. Reading these stories makes me feel hopeless and helpless, not to mention angry and disconnected from my fellow citizens.
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The Washington Post
The young golden eagle on the operating table showed no outward signs of trauma. An X-ray had revealed no fractures.
But this bird, a protected species, was dead — and that’s why it was here, beak-up in a laboratory. It had been shipped to this picturesque college town by federal agents somewhere in the West who suspected it had been electrocuted by power lines. Now its carcass was evidence in an investigation that could lead to criminal charges against a utility company.
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Tennessean
Nashville now has its first dedicated clinic for sexual assault victims.
The Sexual Assault Forensic Exam center is available to any victim in the immediate aftermath of sexual assault in Middle Tennessee.
Victims have just 96 hours after a rape or sexual assault to get a forensic exam, designed to gather evidence should a victim decide to pursue criminal charges — as well as to provide treatment for pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
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