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The IAFN's Spotlight-on-a-Member Project provides a befitting recognition to some of our forensic nursing colleagues and what motivates their dedication and commitment to forensic nursing.
 Please join the Membership Committee in recognizing Andrew Mahoney, RN, SANE-A
- Location: New Orleans, LA, USA
- Work setting: New Orleans Family Justice Center
- Forensic nurse experience: 12 years
- Years of IAFN membership: 10 years
Do you know another IAFN member who is extraordinary? A member who makes a difference in their patients’ lives? Go ahead and nominate them for IAFN’s Spotlight-on-a-Member Project.
Our conference is an opportunity for forensic nursing clinicians and researchers to exchange knowledge and discuss new approaches to practice. Who Should Submit?
- Forensic Nurses and Students
- Nurse Administrators
- Nurse Researchers
- Nurse Educators
- Professionals in disciplines related to forensic nursing
- Law Enforcement
- Corrections
- Legal Professionals
- Program Administrators
Submissions must be completed by the Feb. 12, 2018 deadline for concurrent sessions or May 7, 2018 deadline for poster sessions.
Submit an abstract today!
IAFN is, once again, collaborating with the American Nurses Foundation (ANF) to offer a $10,000 research grant to a forensic nurse researcher. The focus of this grant is restricted to research focused on forensic nursing science.
This award is part of the 2018 Nursing Research Grants which offers nursing research awards to beginner and experienced nurse researchers. Information about all of the awards is available here.
The online application is available now. All applications must be completed by 11:59 p.m. on May 1.
Preference will be given to applicants who are members of the International Association of Forensic Nurses. If there are no member applications, or no high-quality proposals from association members, non-member applicants will be considered, with the selected grantee required to become a member of IAFN in order to receive funding.
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 April 16-17, 2018 in Washington, D.C.
An exclusive invitation for IAFN members*
Please join us for two-days of education and lobbying in Washington, D.C., as we amplify the voices of forensic nurses on the Hill. Registration DEADLINE March 16.
Earn up to 8.5 contact hours. All experience levels are welcome.
Our goal is to have #100ForensicRNs on the Hill.
IAFN is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Each year, the International Association of Forensic Nurses seeks to honor those who have advanced forensic nursing and enhanced the growth and success of the Association. Help us recognize those who are doing outstanding work in the field of forensic nursing — in the community, classroom, or worldwide. Nominate someone today!
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NPR
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IndyStar
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Many people want to understand these behaviors and work to prevent them. It helps if we are consistent and as precise as possible when we use these terms.
But what does each term mean?
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MassLive
In Massachusetts, there are no laws that require law enforcement agencies to count, track or test rape kits.
That leaves the potential for DNA evidence — which could lead to convictions or the identification of serial rapists — sitting in a backlog.
Advocacy groups have been working nationwide to identify just how many rape kits are sitting untested on crime lab shelves and meeting with legislators to help pass laws that will ensure rape kits are tested promptly and tracked.
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Dodge City Daily Globe
People who regularly work with sexual assault victims have long recognized that victims are often re-traumatized when they come to emergency rooms for medical care and evidence collection.
Victims have not only had to endure long waits and road trips to be examined, but those performing the exams often lack the advanced training in working with sexual assault victims and evidence gathering protocol.
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The Missourian
If you had the misfortune to be sexually assaulted in Gasconade County, a rural area of mid-Missouri, the Hermann Area District Hospital might be the first place you would go for medical attention and an examination to gather evidence.
But there are no trained forensic examiners at Hermann Area District Hospital. If you don't want to transfer to another hospital, they'll still collect the evidence — fingernail scrapings, blood samples, hair and internal cavity swabs — that can help link a perpetrator to a crime.
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