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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posttraumatic stress disorder is commonly associated with combat, and men are traditionally the ones to fight a nation's wars. It's only natural to assume that more men than women would experience PTSD, though science tells us the opposite is true. Women are two to three times more likely to have PTSD than men, which leaves nurses particularly vulnerable. Not only do women make up nearly 91 percent of the nursing profession, but also the battles involved in the nursing experience – military or not – increase a person's risk of PTSD.
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Were you last SANE-A® or SANE-P® certified in 2016? This is your year to renew! November 1, 2019 is the last day to accrue CE and file on time. See the renewal page for details and apply online.
It’s time to start planning for Forensic Nurses Week, November 11-15, 2019. Download or order your FREE poster (just pay shipping) and check out our planning guide, filled with links to web banners, flyers, a thank you note, a certificate, and more.
The application period is now open for the IAFN Foundation Conference scholarships. Additionally, the Foundation has launched a new award – the Georgia Pasqualone Camera Award - established to provide camera equipment for those facilities or teams with no existing camera. Want to be part of it all? The Foundation is also looking for new Board Members. Apply by October 7.
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Members – check your email on October 15 for a link to a confidential ballot. To prepare, view the slate and read more about this year’s candidates.
Duquesne University School of Education
The forensic nursing community has long known that the lack of expert Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE) throughout the country has been a major barrier regarding attempts to increase the number of SANEs. Many nurses complete the didactic SANE course, but then find it difficult to identify an expert SANE in their clinical area who can then mentor them through their first exams with a patient who has been sexually assaulted. The mentor would then be available to them to answer their questions as they begin to accumulate their required hours and expertise in order to sit for the certification exam. For those nurses who do not have a SANE mentor where they work, there are clinical courses that are sometimes offered at a site where the nurse can attend a 2-3 day hands on experience in order to learn how to conduct an exam.
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The Conversation via PhysOrg
Crime prevention initiatives targeting sexual violence are by no means new. But as technology advances and costs decrease, we are seeing an abundance of digital and technological strategies emerge. Last month, an invisible anti-groping stamp sold out within an hour of its launch in Japan.
The stamp can be used by victims to mark someone who gropes them on public transport. This mark can only be seen when a black light (that comes with the device) is cast over it.
But we need to ask: are apps, wearables and virtual reality programs really reducing incidents, improving safety or transforming responses to harm?
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City Journal
From inner cities to rural towns, American emergency rooms have become sites of social dysfunction. As Cleveland Clinic CEO Tom Mihaljevic told NPR, “there is a very fundamental problem in U.S. healthcare that very few people speak about, and that’s the violence against healthcare workers. Daily — literally, daily — we are exposed to violent outbursts, in particular in emergency rooms.”
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Neuroscience News
A study by the University of Birmingham has shown that children who have experienced child abuse or neglect are four times more likely to develop serious mental illness such as psychoses, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
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The Verge
Casey Newton writes, "There are internet problems, and there are platform problems. It’s a distinction I wrote about earlier this year, when trying to think through how tech companies should respond to the Christchurch killing. And it’s a distinction I thought about again this weekend, when I read the New York Times’ disturbing investigation into the rapid spread of child sexual abuse imagery on the internet."
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University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston via Medical Xpress
A program developed to encourage healthy relationships and reduce dating violence was effective among early middle school students, according to results of a study published in the American Journal of Public Health by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
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UAB News
Being young is tough.
Adolescence is a time of tremendous change, when young people experience rapid and intense physical, mental and social growth. It is when teenagers begin to establish their identity and independence, and explore and experiment with new places, people and activities. All of this change is important for healthy development, but one possible downside is that it can put some young people at risk of harm.
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Purdue University
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs recently released the 2019 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Report, which showed an increase in the number of veterans who died by suicide in 2017, the latest year with data available.
There were 6,139 veterans who died by suicide in 2017, which was an increase from 6,010 who died in 2016.
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