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What will 2016 hold for you? Use these cold weather months to get a jump on your Professional Development. Test your knowledge with the newest addition to our Online Learning Center — an Interactive Pediatric SANE Case Review. While you’re there, don’t forget about our other courses including Forensic Nursing in the ER, SANE Sustainability, Strangulation, and more. All are available on-demand at your convenience!
Submit your abstract for the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) annual conference happening Sept. 29 - Oct. 2 in Denver, Colorado! Submit your research on Death Investigation, Intimate Partner Violence, Pediatrics, and more.
Submissions must be completed by the Feb. 9, 2016 deadline for concurrent sessions or May 11, 2016 deadline for poster sessions.
Find out more about the submission guidelines, abstract tracks, and important deadlines in our Online Abstract Submission Center.
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The Association is now accepting applications for the April 2016 SANE-A® and SANE-P® board certification examinations.
To learn more — and to apply, please visit the “Take the Exam” webpage.
Certification is for three (3) years and expires on Dec. 31, regardless of the month in which you attained your initial certification. The Association sends renewal notices to certified nurses six (6) months prior to their renewal application deadline date. Please ensure that the home office has your current mailing and email address. Contact admin@ForensicNurses.org or 410-626-7805 to update your contact information.
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Here you can find out about upcoming forensic events. Some events (sponsored by IAFN) may allow for online registration and the ticket purchase. Click the event name to view more details.
To list your event with us, complete this form.
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ACEs Connection Network
I lived in Kotzebue, AK, for four months. One reason I was attracted to the community was an opportunity to introduce the concept of childhood trauma and ACEs. I did that. The Northwest Arctic School District had a wonderful and compassionate superintendent, Dr. Norm Eck. I had a few conversations with Dr. Eck about ACEs and how it affects children as they become adults. Dr. Eck accepted the information and had plans to examine it more deeply, but eventually retired and the spread of information slowed.
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Science
In 2008, in El Cajon, California, 30-year-old John Nicholas Gunther bludgeoned his mother to death with a metal pipe, and then stole $1378 in cash, her credit cards, a DVD/VCR player, and some prescription painkillers. At trial, Gunther admitted to the killing, but argued that his conviction should be reduced to second-degree murder because he had not acted with premeditation.
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By Jessica Taylor
 The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force recently updated their guidelines for depression screenings. The new guidelines call for screening all adults 18 and older, particularly pregnant and postpartum women. This is an update from their 2009 recommendations, showing more concrete evidence of the importance of screening. Depression leads to more than 8 million hospital visits each year, costing $200 billion annually. This shows why the need for early detection is necessary.
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NSVRC
I spent a lot of time in trial in 2013. Probably more than any other year, in fact. In doing so, there are some issues I have noticed that come up repeatedly. I figured I’d share some of those today, particularly because it’s one of those things I’m asked to discuss pretty frequently when talking with medical folks about testimony.
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By Keith Carlson
 Advanced practice nursing is growing, and nurses are reading the writing on the wall. APRNs can practice autonomously in a growing number of states in the U.S., and the potential for increased earning and job security is attractive. Deciding whether advanced practice is for you is an individual decision that only you can answer.
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WDSU-TV
The region's first sexual assault response team was unveiled after last year's statewide changes in the examination, treatment and billing of sexual assault victims. It happened Wednesday morning at the St. Tammany Parish Coroner's Office. The initiative has two goals: catching the predator and protecting the victim.
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Hospitals & Health Networks
U.S. News and World Report’s annual list of the best jobs in the country is out and, per usual, the nursing profession is well represented.
Five titles with the word “nurse” specifically referenced make the top-100 list, which is based on high salaries, low unemployment rates and a better work-life balance. Healthcare in general seemed to dominate, with the field occupying nine of the top 10 spots. Support roles are especially promising for early careerists.
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Office of Justice Programs
Presents jurisdiction- and facility-level counts of allegations and substantiated incidents of nonconsensual sexual acts, abusive sexual contact, staff sexual misconduct, and staff sexual harassment reported by juvenile correctional authorities from 2007 to 2012. Facilities include state juvenile systems, juvenile facilities in Indian country, and sampled locally and privately operated juvenile correctional facilities.
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The Atlantic
According to some statistics, sexual assault is virtually nonexistent at U.S. colleges and universities. An Inside Higher Ed survey of hundreds of college presidents last year found that only 6 percent of respondents believe it’s prevalent on their respective campuses. And according to a recent American Association of University Women (AAUW) analysis of newly released Education Department data, the vast majority of colleges and universities in the U.S. — 91 percent — reported zero incidents of rape last year.
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ProPublica
No one came to court with her that day, except her public defender.
She was 18 years old, charged with a gross misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail.
Rarely do misdemeanors draw notice. Her case was one of 4,859 filed in 2008 in Lynnwood Municipal Court, a place where the judge says the goal is “to correct behavior — to make Lynnwood a better, safer, healthier place to live, work, shop and visit.”
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By Scott E. Rupp
 The results of the 2016 HIMSS Health Information Technology Value survey show that 88 percent of organizations with advanced electronic health record environments identified at least one positive outcome from their use of an EHR. This is the feedback from 52 senior IT leaders at some of the most technologically advanced hospitals and organizations in the nation — representing the best of the breed, in other words, according to HIMSS.
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The Washington Post
On the phone, the boy was frantic. After traveling hundreds of miles from a village in Guatemala, he had made it across the U.S. border and into a government-funded shelter for unaccompanied minors.
But then something went terribly wrong.
Instead of sending him to his uncle, Carlos Enrique Pascual, a landscape worker in Florida, authorities said the shelter released the teenager to traffickers who took him to central Ohio, held him captive in a roach-infested trailer and threatened to kill him if he tried to leave.
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FierceHealthcare
The management style known as transformational leadership helps nurses provide better care and improves retention of nurses early in their career, according to a study published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing.
Not surprisingly, the study also found that abusive management practices have a negative impact on patient care and prompt young nurses to consider quitting their jobs.
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