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New Joint Commission 'Quick Safety' advisory addresses intimate partner violence
HealthLeaders Media
The Joint Commission has released a new Quick Safety advisory to address intimate partner violence, which has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to healthcare providers.
The new advisory, titled "Addressing intimate partner violence and helping protect patients," provides Joint Commission requirements and national recommendations to identify and help patients who have experienced IPV.
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NEW! A Tale of Two Cases
This webinar will compare and contrast the experiences of two sexual assault patients, one who had the benefit of a trained forensic nurse examiner and one who did not. The differences in options for care of each patient will be discussed and how their experiences impacted their overall outcomes. Learn More.
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State laws about prescribing may limit access to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis
Wolters Kluwer Health via Medical Xpress
State laws in the U.S. that require medical doctors to determine which medications a nurse practitioner or physician assistant can prescribe, and under what conditions, may limit the number of patients who use HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, reports a study in The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.
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Stressors from time in prison speed up aging process for incarcerated individuals, research finds
USA Today
A University of Iowa researcher and his colleagues have found that stress responses triggered by circumstances in America's prisons can cause people who have been incarcerated to age faster.
"Thank God evolution gave us the tendency to be aroused and to flee," University of Iowa professor Mark Berg said. "We still possess that, and we use it occasionally. But if it happens too much, it's very, very unhealthy.
That's what we think is happening in prison."
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Opioid overdoses linked to child abuse at neighborhood level
OSU News
Neighborhoods with more opioid overdoses have higher rates of child welfare investigations and confirmed cases of child maltreatment, a new study in Ohio finds.
While other research has found this link at the county level, this study is one of the few to look at the crisis at the neighborhood level, said Bridget Freisthler, lead author of the study and professor of social work at The Ohio State University.
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Brain injury overlooked danger of domestic violence: Waterloo researcher
The Record
Brain injury is a common but often overlooked complication of domestic violence and the risk of this damage that can cause significant impairment has been heightened during the pandemic, a new Wilfrid Laurier University study found.
The scope of the issue is staggering: at least one in eight Canadian women have a brain injury from violence at the hands of an intimate partner that is undiagnosed or unrecognized.
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State laws aim to regulate 'troubled teen industry,' but loopholes remain
Kaiser Health News
Five days after Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed a law meant to provide stronger oversight of the more than 100 residential youth treatment programs operating in the state, a 12-year-old boy arrived at one of them, Provo Canyon School. Before long, he was forced into seclusion, denied communication with his family and given antipsychotic medication without parental permission, according to relatives.
Trish Leon, aunt of the 12-year-old, Logan, contacted various state agencies, the Utah governor’s office, elected officials and youth rights nonprofits — but soon discovered the law’s limits. Secluding a student from others is still allowed under the new rules, for example, but program operators must now report to regulators when they do so. Leon’s complaints about what happened to her nephew while he was at Provo Canyon School were dismissed as unsubstantiated or hit dead ends.
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Canadian Centre for Child Protection calls out big tech
Strategy Online
The Canadian Centre for Child Protection has developed a new video as part of a campaign to shock tech companies into being more proactive when it comes to removing the millions of images and videos of child sexual abuse material.
The spot depicts a predator and a young victim in a family room, but the story continues from there, showing her through her teen years and into adulthood, showing how the presence of images of her abuse online have followed her throughout her life.
The ad is appearing on YouTube, and is being shared through channels like Instagram and LinkedIn.
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Forensic documentation of sexual violence: MediCapt vs. paper forms
ReliefWeb
With the support of Elrha's Humanitarian Innovation Fund, Physicians for Human Rights is scaling its mobile application, MediCapt, to new sites in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya. Collaboratively designed with medical partners in the DRC and Kenya, MediCapt strengthens clinicians' capacity to document forensic evidence of sexual and gender-based violence and safely store and securely transmit that evidence to the justice sector, guaranteeing that many more survivors have a meaningful chance to secure justice for the harms they have suffered. Recently, PHR finalized an independent evaluation of MediCapt, which has reinforced the application's effectiveness over the commonly used paper forensic documentation forms.
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Conditions that are causing burnout among nurses were a problem before the pandemic
NPR
From COVID surges to staffing challenges, it's no surprise many nurses are saying they're burned out right now. But a foremost researcher in the field of nursing points to a another reason - the 12-hour shift. Stacey Vanek Smith and Adrian Ma from daily economics podcast The Indicator take a look at the unintended consequences of this industry standard.
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