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 This year, Forensic Nurses Week will take place Nov. 9-13. We hope that you will share your passion of forensic nursing with your communities.
Visit the IAFN Marketplace to order your complimentary Forensic Nurses Week Poster before we run out.
Don't forget about IAFN's Online Learning Center. Archived webinars are available 365 days a year, 24 hours a day so you can enhance your education when it’s convenient for you.
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Lead your forensic program into the future! Join nurses, researchers, educators, legal professionals, and multidisciplinary partners as you gain knowledge, are exposed to new perspectives, and learn about the latest evidence in practice. The registration rate is $630 USD for Members and $759 USD for Nonmembers. Online registration ends Oct. 21. This is a four-day conference and registration includes continental breakfast and three lunches.
Failure to properly recognize fetal compromise; failure to recognize hyper stimulation; failure to discontinue oxytocin; failure to notify the physician of the baby’s condition; failure to contact a physician or charge nurse at an earlier time and go up the chain of command. Click here to read NSO’s new RN Case Study!
BCMJ
When loved ones die or are seriously injured in workplace incidents, families often turn to their physicians. They look for answers surrounding such deaths and life-altering injuries, and it’s sometimes up to their doctors to help them put things in perspective. The better a workplace incident is understood, the better the opportunity to prevent a similar occurrence in the future. That’s where WorkSafeBC’s Fatal and Serious Injury (FSI) Investigations Section comes in.
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Los Angeles Times
Two drugs that help suppress the immune system in organ transplant patients may have a future as the long-sought birth control "pill" for men, new research suggests.
The drugs — cyclosporine A (also known as CsA) and FK506 (also known as tacrolimus) — are given to transplant recipients to reduce the risk that the patient’s body will reject its new organ.
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KPRC-TV
Forensic labs are already backed up with tons of work and now prosecutors say they will have to go back and retest a lot of old cases.
This afternoon the Texas Forensic Science Commission held a tense meeting discussing misinterpretations with DNA analysis.
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The Baltimore Sun
As some on TV talk shows wonder aloud, humorously or otherwise, what nurses really do, it's important to understand the role they have played in changing health care. This is especially true in how the entire medical sector looks at and responds to domestic violence.
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Pacific Standard
This year's preliminary federal report on crime in the United States, drawn from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting system, is full of good news. Violent crimes decreased by 0.2 percent compared to 2013, continuing a steady decline in nationwide crime rates since a peak in the 1970s and '80s.
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The Charlotte Observer
Prosecutors have agreed to retry a man who was sentenced to life in prison for a 1991 Charlotte rape but whose case was later shown to involve flawed testimony by an elite FBI forensic unit.
The Washington Post reported in April that flawed testimony by the unit affected at least 2,500 cases nationwide, including that of Timothy Scott Bridges. He was convicted of raping an 83-year-old disabled woman in her Charlotte home in May 1989. The woman has since died.
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Forensic Magazine
The forest in eastern Poland appears peaceful, normal, serene. But what lies beneath, in the soil, are bones, fragments of buildings, personal belongings from a long time ago — a chaotic assortment wildly scattered in fields and among trees.
For Caroline Sturdy Colls, a British archaeologist, what lies in that soil at Treblinka tells the story of perhaps the greatest crime of the 20th century.
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ACEs Connection Network
Please join us on our upcoming webinar, "Achieving Access for Parents and Children", which is brought to you by Defending Childhood in partnership with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention and Futures Without Violence. This webinar will take place on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015. This will be an exciting and important discussion that you don't want to miss!
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Scrubbed In
We recently highlighted just a few of the many innovations that have changed nursing over the last century. But in real time, right now, healthcare innovations are arising that will further alter the course of nursing’s future.
Some of these innovations are already changing how nurses do their jobs. And for some, the full potential of impact is still on the horizon.
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USA Today
The American Civil Liberties Union is suing a Catholic health system for refusing to provide emergency abortions to women whose incomplete miscarriages put them at high risk of serious complications.
In a federal lawsuit filed Thursday, the ACLU said that Michigan-based Trinity Health Corporation, one of the USA's largest Catholic health systems, refused to provide the standard of care to at least five women who miscarried at one of the company's hospitals.
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The Boston Globe
A disproportionate number of racial minorities are in jail as they await trial, and those who are granted bail face amounts up to four times higher than white defendants in some Massachusetts counties, according to a study on pretrial detention.
The report released by MassINC, an independent Boston think tank, looked at pretrial detention in 10 counties and found the most striking disparities in Barnstable, Franklin, Berkshire, and Norfolk.
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Department of Justice
The Department of Justice today filed a statement of interest in S.R. & L.G. v. Kenton County, et al, in federal court in the Eastern District of Kentucky. The plaintiffs in the case are two elementary school children – named in the complaint as eight-year-old third grader S.R. and nine-year-old fourth grader L.G. – who allege that a school resource officer (SRO) violated their rights under the Fourth and 14th Amendment and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when the SRO handcuffed them in school, behind their backs, above their elbows, and at their biceps, after the children exhibited conduct arising out of their disabilities.
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The New Yorker
On a Saturday night in late May, I sat in the back seat of a taxi as it drove through a shantytown in Baghdad. We were not far from Firdos Square, where, in April of 2003, invading American troops famously toppled a large statue of Saddam Hussein. A highway passed overhead, its traffic thudding, and Baghdad’s tallest building, the Cristal Grand Ishtar Hotel — still widely known as the Sheraton, although the hotel chain withdrew from Iraq in 1990 — rose in the distance.
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KELO-TV
After something like the recent school shooting, there's one thing on everyone's mind — how did this happen? As students and parents try to cope, we sit down with a mental health expert to find out what triggers young people to act out in such violent ways.
Many people in the Harrisburg community, and across the state right now, are asking 'how can something like this happen here?'
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The White House
All our Nation's children deserve the chance to fulfill their greatest potential, and nothing should limit the scope of their futures. But all too often, our juvenile and criminal justice systems weigh our young people down so heavily that they cannot reach their piece of the American dream. When that happens, America is deprived of immeasurable possibility.
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Broadly Vice
In the early 1990s, when serial killer and sex criminal Karla Homolka received a mere 12-year prison sentence for the kidnapping, torture, rape, and murder of three teenage girls (including her own younger sister), her plea to guilt of manslaughter was instantly dubbed "the deal with the devil." Homolka became one of the most hated young blondes in North America; she and her husband, Paul Bernardo, who also participated, came to be known as the "Ken and Barbie killers."
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