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ContagionLive
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued new guidelines to help primary care providers treat patients with sexually transmitted diseases.
The recommendations are a response to a shift in how Americans access health care for STDs.
They come amid increasing rates of STDs across the country.
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Space is still available! 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.
Be part of this important event and share your experience with your colleagues! Abstracts will be accepted for three categories: 30-minute research/evidence-based practice sessions, 90-minute concurrent sessions, and poster sessions. Due Feb. 12, 2020. Conference tracks, session lengths, and additional details are online.
2020 is the year of the nurse. Make it your year to become certified! Display your expertise. Grow your career potential. Boost your CV/resume. Fortify your credibility when testifying. Apply by Feb. 6 to sit for the April exam.
Are you interested in helping to shape our September Conference? The Conference Planning Committee is seeking IAFN members to assist in reviewing abstracts. Reviews start Feb. 19 and finish by March 5.
Applications are currently being accepted for the IAFN Research Awards for FY 2020. IAFN members are eligible and the deadline is February 15, 2020. Key research focus areas include research exploring health outcomes, including cost of care, of victims of violence when forensic nurses are involved in their care and research to guide clinical care of patients affected by violence.
CA: SDPD Crime Lab Manager Is Officially Out Following Rape Kit Testing Scandal
MA: Massachusetts begins rollout of rape kit tracking system
MD: AG report finds some police departments destroying rape kits despite state law
OK: State adopts rape kit tracking system
WA: WA Bill Would Reform Sexual Assault Kit Handling
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Innerbody
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released its latest Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance Report along with new data on the number of reported sexually transmitted disease cases across U.S. counties and metro areas.
Innerbody.com’s research team analyzed the latest statistics on a city-by-city basis and developed our list of the top 100 cities with the highest STD rates along with key trends.
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Fox News
It was a secret that Jason, a Mississippi state inmate, couldn’t keep locked up in his mind any longer.
“I was in protective custody, and he was a general population inmate. He told me he was going to get me,” the inmate documented in written testimony, viewed by Fox News. “I came out of my cell for a shower when he called me to his cell. Then he pulled a knife on me.”
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UN News
Each year, at least 55 million children in Europe suffer some form of physical, sexual, emotional or psychological violence, the UN health agency said.
And despite the magnitude of this figure, “it is well established that incidents of interpersonal violence are widely underreported,” according to the World Health Organization’s European Region office.
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Anglia Ruskin University via PhysOrg
New research has found that two factors—an outdoor location and the presence of a weapon—have a significant bearing on the verdict of juries in cases of child stranger rape.
The study, the first of its kind to focus on real jury verdicts in cases of child stranger rape in England and Wales, was led by Criminal Psychologist Dr. Samantha Lundrigan, of Anglia Ruskin University, and the findings have been published in the journal Child Abuse and Neglect.
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University of Pittsburgh via Medical Xpress
Coaching Boys Into Men, a program that seeks to prevent dating violence and sexual assault, reduces abusive behaviors among middle school male athletes toward their female peers, according to clinical trial results published in JAMA Pediatrics.
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Horizon
Facing the death of a loved one, being given a life-threatening diagnosis, or living through a natural disaster is difficult enough. But those who get through these traumatic life events often face further ill effects.
Someone’s chances of developing post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety all increase after being exposed to significant stressors. And it’s not just mental health that takes a hit: recent research by Professor Unnur Valdimarsdóttir, at the University of Iceland, shows that stress is linked to an increased risk of poor heart health, severe infections like sepsis, and some autoimmune diseases, too.
So far, we have some clues about how stress might lead to someone’s health deteriorating.
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The New Yorker
Snow was falling in Stevenson, Alabama, when Brittany Smith and her brother, Chris McCallie, stopped at a McDonald’s. It was January, 2018, and Brittany felt happier than she had in a long time. After years of working low-paying, menial jobs, she was coming from an interview at a flooring company. She’d been hired on the spot, at a wage that would more than cover her expenses, including rent for her four-bedroom red brick house. Brittany, who is now thirty-two, has four children. In 2013, after she struggled with substance abuse, the state removed the eldest three, who eventually went to live with her uncle. But a long period of good behavior meant that she’d soon get increased visitations, and then, she hoped, full custody. “I was just uplifted,” she told me recently. “Like, everything is going right. I have a job now, I’m going to get my babies back, and I have a home.”
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WHO
Nurses and midwives play a vital role in providing health services. These are the people who devote their lives to caring for mothers and children; giving lifesaving immunizations and health advice; looking after older people and generally meeting everyday essential health needs. They are often the first and only point of care in their communities. The world needs 9 million more nurses and midwives if it is to achieve universal health coverage by 2030.
That’s why the World Health Assembly has designated 2020 the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife.
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