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The application window for the April 2016 SANE-A® and SANE-P® certification exams is closing soon.
To learn more, download the 2016 Certification Examination Handbook or visit the “Take the Exam” page at www.ForensicNurses.org. Apply by mail, fax, email, or online by Feb. 19, 2016, to receive preferential pricing.
IAFN's online pediatric/adolescent Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) didactic training program is available. This course is geared toward the Registered Nurse or Advanced Practice Registered Nurse planning on practicing as a Pediatric SANE. This course meets the IAFN SANE Education Guidelines and provides 43 contact hours in nursing upon completion. Learn more and register today!
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Poster sessions allow presenters to network with peers one-on-one, exchanging ideas and learning from one another outside the traditional conference sessions. Submit a poster session abstract for 2016! Poster Abstract Submission Deadline: 12 Midnight Eastern Time on May 11, 2016.
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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!
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Acclaimed singer / songwriter Hozier is making his song "Cherry Wine" a clarion call to highlight the issue of domestic violence. The premiere of his powerful new video will address the issue head on while proceeds from downloads of this special iTunes single release will be donated by Hozier to a series of international domestic abuse charities — organizations which provide support to victims and survivors of domestic abuse while also engaging in advocacy and community outreach.
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The Globe and Mail
Natalie just wanted to belong. Her home life was troubled — parents who drank too much, an abusive boyfriend and a sense she didn’t fit in. So, although just 14, she moved in with members of a street gang.
They were her family, her protectors, at least in the beginning. She began to sell crack for them. Then she started using as well, which cost money that she didn’t have.
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FierceHealthcare
"Nurse intuition" doesn't sound scientific, but it could play a key role in critical-care outcomes, according to a small study published in DovePress
Nurses have incorporated the idea of basing care decisions on their intuition into nursing discipline for decades, according to the authors, but educational institutions have largely ignored the concept in recent years.
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The Washington Post via MSN
In Palo Alto, Calif., the shrill horn of incoming trains bring a constant reminder of young lives lost too soon. For the last seven years, Caltrains have been the suicide technique of choice among teenagers in the Silicon Valley town, where the adolescent suicide rate has soared to five times the national average.
It was in this way that a bright, popular, goofy kid named Cameron Lee ended his life in November 2014. By then, his classmates at Henry M. Gunn High School were all too accustomed to this sort of inexplicable tragedy.
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Advance Healthcare Network
A new report published by the Nurses Service Organization, a division of Aon Affinity and CNA, finds that malpractice claims against nurses are on the rise.
The report, "Nurse Professional Liability Exposures: 2015 Claim Report Update," said that more than $90 million was paid in nurses' malpractice claims over a five-year period. The nurses included registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and licensed vocational nurses.
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The Atlantic
Here’s a thought experiment: You’re walking down the street with a friend when your companion falls and gashes her leg on the concrete. It’s bleeding; she’s in pain. It’s clear she’s going to need stitches. What do you do?
This one isn’t exactly a head-scratcher. You'd probably attempt to offer some sort of first-aid assistance until the bleeding stopped, or until she could get to medical help. Maybe you happen to have a Band-Aid on you, or a tissue to help her clean the wound, or a water bottle she can use to rinse it off.
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The Clinical Advisor
Jillian Knowles, MMS, PA-C, writes: I recently had a patient who presented to the emergency department with the chief complaint of a head injury. The patient explained that she had bruising to her face and a bad headache after she was hit in the eye by a dog bone. This was an unusual story, but she went into vivid detail about how the dog bone hit her, what time it happened, and where the event occurred. She said that the injury was three hours old.
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Nurse.com
While nurse residency programs increasingly are becoming the norm in hospitals throughout the country, the pioneers of the first program had no idea they had tapped into a need that would soon be elevated to national attention.
In 2000, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and University HealthSystem Consortium partnered to design a standardized nurse residency program aimed at training baccalaureate-prepared nurses to enter the workforce. "Prior to this, there weren't any formal residency programs with a defined curriculum," said JoAnn DelMonte, MSN, RN-BC, senior director of professional development at University of Colorado Health.
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HealthDay News
Child abuse costs nations worldwide billions of dollars a year, experts report.
In high-income nations, the median cost of child abuse equals a loss of 1.2 percent of per capita income, or $150 billion a year in the United States. The estimated cost in China — a middle-income country — is $50 billion a year, the experts added.
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AJMC Managed Markets Network
Although the U.S. is often viewed as having some of the best healthcare in the world, the validity of this assertion has been called into question for a number of years. A 2009 analysis from the Urban Institute found that the quality of healthcare in America at that time was a bit of a "mixed bag" — faring relatively well in areas such as cancer care, but lagging in mortality rates from treatable and preventable diseases.
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The New York Times via MSN
When doctors and nurses arrived at Room 834 just after 11 a.m., a college student admitted to the hospital hours earlier lay motionless on the floor, breathing shallowly, a sheet draped over his body. A Houston police officer with a cut on his head was being helped onto a stretcher, while another hovered over the student.
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Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
Levi Bridges felt a strong pull to a medical career, but he didn't want to be a doctor.
"I was interested in science and the medical field, but I didn't want to take the time needed to go to med school and wanted more to be part of the bedside care for patients," Bridges said.
So, he went into nursing.
It's not a career choice many men make, at least since the 19th century, when nursing was associated with military personnel and, to a degree, the clergy.
Nursing remains a predominantly female profession, but men are making inroads in the field, according to recent statistics.
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By Keith Carlson
 As an intrinsically collaborative profession, nursing lends itself naturally to multidisciplinary cooperation and the recognition of multiple voices and opinions. Even nurses who practice autonomously will find themselves leaning on colleagues for support, ideas or professional camaraderie. The collectivity of nursing is natural, and is thus encouraged in most milieus. The nursing process encourages ongoing assessment of outcomes and the periodic retooling of the care plan.
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