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FORENSIC NURSES UPDATES |
IAFN is once again collaborating with the American Nurses Foundation (ANF) to offer a $10,000 research grant to a forensic nurse researcher. The grant application is open to all of IAFN's members. (Preference will be given to applicants who are members of the International Association of Forensic Nurses.)
This award is part of the 2016 Nursing Research Grants which offers nursing research awards to beginner and experienced nurse researchers. Information about all of the awards is available at: GIVETONURSING.ORG.
The online application is available now. All applications must be completed by 11:59 p.m. on May 1.
The Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE-A and SANE-P) Examination Preparation Guide
This comprehensive guide covers:
- exam essentials
- exam content
- study strategies and tips
- resources
- practice items, answer keys, references, and rationales
PLUS two bonus online practice tests (a SANE-A and a SANE-P exam).
Member and non-member pricing is available.
Check your email soon for the BIG ANNOUNCEMENT.
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The Association is STILL accepting applications for the April 2016 SANE-A® and SANE-P® board certification examinations.
Late Filing Window Closes FEB. 26 at 11:59 p.m. ET
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Whom do you admire for his or her contribution to forensic nursing? Help the International Association of Forensic Nurses recognize those who are doing outstanding work in the field of forensic nursing in the community, classroom, or worldwide.
Award winners will be recognized during the 2016 International Conference on Forensic Nursing Science and Practice in Denver, Colorado, Sept. 29-Oct. 2, 2016. Submit your nomination no later than April 26, 2016. Nominate someone today!
The Foundation Scholarship Program provides financial assistance for members and other forensic nurses around the world who might otherwise be unable to attend the organization’s annual International Conference on Forensic Nursing Science and Practice.
This year's Annual Conference will be held in Denver, Colorado, Sept. 29-Oct. 2, 2016 at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel.
Apply online or via paper — download and fill out the PDF fillable application then email it to education@forensicnurses.org or fax it to 410-626-7804 attention Cari.
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INDUSTRY NEWS |
VAWA
The 2013 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) included many new provisions, but two focused specifically on the topic of forensic compliance. One clarified that victims cannot be required to pay any out-of-pocket costs to obtain a medical forensic exam. The second requires public outreach to ensure that community members know sexual assault victims can obtain a medical forensic exam free of charge and regardless of whether or not they participate in the criminal justice process.
The deadline for compliance with these two new provisions is March 7, 2016.
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AdvanceWeb
We see it in emergency rooms everywhere, as I saw again this week. I was amused, thinking of sharing the story with colleagues, as inwardly, I rolled my eyes and sighed. Here was yet another "frequent flyer", one of the patients for which healthcare has identified no solution. She had just been discharged, but here she was, suitcase packed, ready for another stay.
Soon enough, she begged her husband to remove the oxygen for a cigarette break, even though the windchill was subzero in the designated smoking zone.
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The Huffington Post
Every six months, Amanda Nguyen has to play a twisted and exhausting game to find her rape kit and make sure that no one destroys it.
Nguyen, 24, was sexually assaulted in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in October 2014. Within 24 hours of her attack, Nguyen went to the hospital and asked for a rape kit examination. "At the hospital," Nguyen told The Huffington Post, "they gave me a bunch of pamphlets and one of the pamphlets said kits will be stored at the Massachusetts police lab for six months, and quote, 'At the end of six months it will be destroyed.'"
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Slate
CSI:Dixie, a beautifully conceived and profoundly mournful new digital history site, holds 1,582 digitized coroner's reports from six counties in 19th-century South Carolina. You can search by keyword, or read lists that organize inquest files by the act that killed the person (homicide; suicide; infanticide; accident; natural causes), clicking through to individual cases that fit that description. Three "Chronicles" tell deeper stories of individual inquests. Historian Stephen Berry, who created the site, offers extensive commentary and context throughout.
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HCP Live
Monitoring the health of patients around the clock is a challenging job. From the physician’s standpoint, that is just one aspect of what happens during the day. It’s even more challenging to meet the many other needs that patients have, such as answering questions and keeping them happy and comfortable. Good nurses know how to juggle all these jobs, and many more.
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NPR
In a relatively rare victory for abused workers, Vail Run Resort in Colorado recently agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle a sexual harassment case. The case was brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of members of the hotel's housekeeping employees.
The company failed to address attempted rapes of its housekeeping staff. As part of the settlement, the company will have a monitor for five years and will be required to do extensive sexual-harassment training of its managers.
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The Reflector
Social workers, educators and community leaders from around Clark County gathered in Battle Ground last week to hear a talk on building resiliency in children and mitigating the effects of adverse childhood experiences in local youth.
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) is a psychological term that describes a traumatic event or stressor which affects the growth and development — and often the behavioral trajectory — of a child.
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Battered Women's Justice Project
Sherry Hamby will explore ways in which the measurement of IPV has systematically mis-represented gender patterns. More particularly, she will discuss how assessing physical assault in ways that capture too many incidents of horseplay and joking around renders sexual victimization invisible. Even research surveillance of homicide systematically under-represents male IPV, because current homicide databases categorize “collateral” IPV victims, such as children, family members, or women’s new partners without contextualizing their killings.
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By Joan Spitrey
 According to a recent report, nurses occupied only 2 percent of institution and hospital board positions. This is in stark comparison to the 22.6 percent of physicians who occupy board positions, clearly demonstrating a growing need for a diverse perspective. The Nurses on Boards Coalition is setting aside the week of Feb. 29 to March 4 for a "Leap into Leadership" initiative and a call to action for all nurses to meet the goal of 10,000 nurses on boards by 2020.
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