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 Forensic Nurses Week: Nov. 9-13
New this year, the 2015 Forensic Nurse Week Planning Guide.
Check out all of the AWESOME resources available to help you celebrate. Download one of our colorful banners to post on your website. Send a thank-you note to a forensic nurse or how about a certificate of appreciation for sharing their compassion. You can contact the media with our great press release (Coming Soon) or email your local representative to bring awareness to the specialty.
All of these and more are now available in the 2015 Planning Guide.
Each year, the International Association of Forensic Nurses seeks to identify and recognize those individuals who have contributed significantly to the advancement of forensic nursing and to the growth and success of IAFN. Learn More.
The following people were honored this week at the 2015 International Conference on Forensic Nursing Science and Practice in Orlando, Florida.
Virginia A. Lynch Pioneer Award: Stacey Mitchell
Vision Award: Winston Sayson and Carey Goryl
Distinguished Fellow Award: Pamela Tabor
Ann Burgess Research Award: Patricia Speck
Patron Award: David Bernard
These individuals were selected through a rigorous application process that included a written essay and documented active participation in the Association. Please help us in congratulating them: (Pictured left to right) Sinegugu Duma, South Africa, Michelle Gorman, Scotland, Hope Miller, USA.
Now open to ALL US-based nurses caring for American Indian/Alaska Native patients! Spend 3 days gaining hands on experience with pediatric patients at Our Kids in Nashville, Tennessee or Driscoll Children's Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas.
This training is limited to healthcare providers who have already completed their 40 hour Pediatric SANE Classroom course. If you are not employed by an IHS or Tribal facility, you must have your own malpractice insurance to attend.
Click here for more information.
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The Associated Press
The federal Indian Health Service has finalized a policy that makes emergency contraception more accessible to American Indian and Alaska Native women.
The written policy released this week requires the morning-after pill to be available to women of any age over the counter at IHS-run facilities, no questions asked. That's in line with a 2013 U.S. Food and Drug Administration decision to lift age limits and make the medication available without a prescription.
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Mirage News
Australian scientists have created a new method of uncovering invisible fingerprints, in a find that could make forensic analysis a quicker and easier process, according to a media release by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO).
By adding a drop of liquid containing crystals to surfaces, investigators using a UV light are able to see invisible fingerprints “glow” in about 30 seconds.
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CALiO
The NCAC Professional Bibliographies series provides guides to the literature for practitioners working with children and adolescents who have been sexually, emotionally or physically abused.
These bibliographies provide citations with abstracts to selected publications on selected topics. Journal articles, books, chapters, and other publications that are reasonably available appear in the bibliographies.
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Sexual Violence Research Initiative
Sexual, intimate partner and other forms of gender-based violence (SIGBV)
are a violation of human rights and a cause of morbidity and mortality in conflict settings.
Faith based organisations often have access and influence in communities that few other
s
have and may be in a unique position to respond to SIGBV.
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Violence Against Women
Programs aimed at preventing violence against women have increasingly adopted bystander approaches, yet large gaps remain in our knowledge about what drives bystanders to act or not, particularly in settings where there is an increased risk of violence against women occurring. This article contributes to this gap by examining data from research with professional male athletes from the Australian Football League.
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The Associated Press via Health News Florida
In a basement classroom on the University of South Florida campus, Joe Mullins is bringing the dead back to life.
He's doing it with clay, scalpels and 3D printing technology in hopes of reviving a cold case out of Alachua County, Florida. In 1987, a teenager was driving a stolen Corvette when he struck a tractor-trailer head-on. The teen was burned beyond recognition.
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SafetyLit
Sexual victimization is prevalent on U.S. college campuses. Some women experience multiple sexual victimizations with heightened risk among those with prior victimization histories. One risk factor for sexual revictimization is alcohol use. Most research has focused on associations between alcohol consumption and revictimization.
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The Huffington Post
There's a miraculous new treatment for schizophrenia that could transform the way we treat mental illness. And then there are the terrible reasons why most medical professionals have never heard of it.
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WHAG-TV
In her time as forensic nurse program coordinator at Frederick Memorial Hospital, Pamela Holtzinger has learned that many cases of sexual abuse are quickly identified, but some can be easy to miss.
Holtizinger has seen the most glaring cases of abuse, to instances that required attention to details as subtle as observing a victim’s scalp for burst capillaries.
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The World Bank
The World Bank Group and nonprofit Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) announced an open call for funding proposals for work aimed at preventing gender-based violence in low- and middle-income countries.
SVRI and the World Bank Group will provide grants of up to U.S. $150,000 for innovations to prevent gender-based violence (GBV) — a severe and neglected problem affecting more than one in three women worldwide and a major challenge for global development.
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SafetyLit
This study explored the socialization of Lebanese men's attitudes toward gender equality to understand violence against women in Middle Eastern countries. Two hundred seventy-three men completed a survey, and 73 participated in seven focus groups.
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HealthDay News via Medline Plus
The Ebola virus is capable of hiding out in the semen of male survivors for up to nine months after symptoms appear, a new study suggests.
And a related case report illustrates why this latest discovery is so concerning: Scientists from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases in Maryland found evidence in blood and semen samples that a male Ebola survivor from Liberia infected his female partner a full six months after his blood tested negative for the deadly virus. His semen sample tested positive.
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The Atlantic
Guillermo’s family home sat on a hill in San Salvador. The houses there stood crowded, stacked one upon another with rusted metal roofs, and some nights Guillermo could stand atop the hill and look across the valley of dark buildings to the bright incandescence of Estadio Custcatlán, Central America’s largest soccer stadium. Between him and the stadium ran a busy street.
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MCN
Female genital cutting/mutilation (FGC/M) is a procedure that involves physically altering a woman's/girl's genitals for no health benefits. This is a practice that is deeply rooted in culture, religion, and social tradition primarily in some African and Middle East countries. It is performed by a midwife, barber, traditional healer with no surgical training, or a physician.
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Sexual Violence Research Initiative
How is it that, despite of the enormous resources expended on the criminal justice system in South Africa, violence is increasing? The answer lies in the fact that while a strong criminal justice system is essential, it can do little to prevent violence in the first place. To prevent violence, we need, amongst other things, to support with parents and children.
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The Associated Press via WAAY-TV
The Center for Forensic Science Research and Education at the Fredric Rieders Family Foundation has received notice from the National Institute of Justice that it has been awarded funding to support continued research into the use of designer drugs, also known as “bath salts” and synthetic marijuana, at electronic dance music events where use of recreational drugs is widespread.
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