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Chicago Tribune
The fatal shooting recently at Mercy Hospital & Medical Center in Chicago highlights a sobering reality about workplace violence: women who are killed at work are commonly targeted by intimate partners.
40 percent of women who died as a result of workplace violence in 2016 did so at the hands of domestic partners or relatives, compared with two percent of men, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Men, who represented 82 percent of the 500 workplace homicide victims last year, are most commonly killed by robbers.
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Make your plans now to join us for our free, members-only Forensic Nursing Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C. Meet with Members of Congress to advocate for issues that impact forensic nursing. Training is provided.
IAFN Members are invited to join us on Dec. 11, 2018 at 1:00 PM for the second webinar in the five part series on the Medical-Forensic Evaluation of Asylum Seekers. Register now for part two - The Clinical Interview & Considerations for Vulnerable Populations.
The editors of the Journal of Forensic Nursing invite interested colleagues to consider a volunteer position on the Journal's Editorial Board. Vacancies include one member position and one international member position (i.e. outside of Canada and the United States).
The Journal of Forensic Nursing is currently seeking original articles, review papers, and case reports for a special issue dedicated to trauma informed care, to be published in 2019. Researchers, clinicians, educators, and others whose work interfaces social justice, violence, issues in criminal justice, health care systems and forensic nursing, are invited to submit articles. All submissions must explicitly address trauma-informed policies and/or practices.
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Nurse.org
For those who don’t work in the nursing profession, it can come as a surprise to learn that healthcare and social services workers experience a greater rate of on-the-job violence than police officers or prison guards. According to statistics from 2016, healthcare workers were the victims of 70 percent of all violent workplace incidents. In addition, those who work directly with patients are 12 times more likely to experience violence than employees in other fields. Nurses, in particular, are often assaulted by patients and have to deal with subsequent injuries without the support of their employers.
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UnDark
This past January, a woman was walking along a road in Tumwater, Washington when a man pulled her into the woods and raped her. This rape might not have happened had police quickly processed evidence from the sexual assault exam — or “rape kit”— from another Tumwater rape the previous summer. But because it took nearly six months for experts to analyze and match the DNA, the suspect had the opportunity to attack again.
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University of Manchester via Medical Xpress
University students who are lesbian, gay and bisexual are at higher risk of self-harm and attempting suicide than their heterosexual counterparts, finds new research.
The study also shows that low self-esteem may explain the increased risk of self-harm in LGB students. Low self-esteem may result in LGB students who have faced discrimination or have struggled to accept or share their sexuality with others.
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CNN
The most dangerous place for women is the home, according to a new UN study.
Out of an estimated 87,000 women killed last year, some 50,000 — or 58 percent — were killed by partners or family members, according to the 2018 report on gender-related killing of women and girls by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
More than a third of the women intentionally killed in 2017 were killed by a current or former partner, and 137 women are killed by family members every day, it said.
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BreakingNews.ie
Staffing levels at Ireland's six Sexual Assault Treatment Units are “scandalous” according to the CEO of Dublin’s Rape Crisis Centre.
Noeline Blackwell told Newstalk Breakfast that frequently the largest unit at Dublin’s Rotunda Hospital, which covers one third of the country, cannot operate at weekends because of a lack of staff.
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BBC News
It started when one family decided not to circumcise its women 30 years ago. That idea spread and now an entire village in Sudan has eradicated female genital mutilation; they don't even talk about it anymore.
Elsewhere in the country, the majority of girls and women are cut. Now, Sudan's government, with help from international aid, is hoping to put an end to FGM nationwide, by 2030.
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Magnetic Media
Nearly 15 percent of all women in Jamaica, aged 15 to 49, who have ever married or partnered have experienced physical or sexual violence from a male partner in the previous 12 months. This was revealed by Health Minister, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton, as he addressed a public forum on gender-based violence on Nov. 21 at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in St. Andrew.
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NPR
Doctors across the U.S. have become increasingly vocal in addressing gun violence as a public health crisis, a posture that recently has drawn the wrath of the National Rifle Association.
Yet, in Colorado, a diverse group that includes doctors, public health researchers and gun shop owners has come together to bridge this divide. The Colorado Firearm Safety Coalition has found common ground on at least one issue: preventing firearm suicide.
The group's motto: "Fighting suicide together."
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