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FORENSIC NURSES UPDATES |
Have you developed a new forensic nursing project? Do you have research in progress? We encourage students at all levels (BSN/MSN/DNP/PhD) to submit poster presentations. This is a great way to share your ideas, present early stage doctoral work, and get feedback from scholars and clinicians.
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What Is the Award?
Registration fee for the International Conference on Forensic Nursing Science and Practice
Plus a $1,000 allowance to be used to offset travel, accommodations, or meals while attending the Conference.
How Do I Apply?
Apply Online or
via Paper. Once download and completed, email it to education@forensicnurses.org or fax it to 410-626-7804 attention Cari.
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Need help deciding which award your nominee qualifies for? Checkout the Association's Awards Purpose and Criteria section on the webpage. To see a listing of previous award winners, please visit the Awards and Recognition webpage.
We are pleased to announce our newest award, the Front Line Forensic Nurses of the Year Award. This award seeks to acknowledge nurses who provide extraordinary care that created significant benefit to the patient/client in the forensic setting.
IAFN is collaborating with the American Nurses Foundation (ANF) again 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.
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INDUSTRY NEWS |
ANCC
 Certified Nurses Day™ honors nurses worldwide who contribute to better patient outcomes through national board certification in their specialty. A registered nurse (RN) license allows nurses to practice. Certification affirms advanced knowledge, skill, and practice to meet the challenges of modern nursing.
Every March 19, employers, certification boards, education facilities, and healthcare providers celebrate and publicly acknowledge nurses who care enough to earn and maintain the highest credentials in their specialty.
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Minority Nurse
Tears build behind your eyes. Your mind plays over and over how much you want to turn and run, but you can’t. No matter what, you have to keep going because you are strong and people are relying on you. How can you endure it, though, when one part of you wants to scream and one part of you wants to break down and sob? You can do neither, and instead, you hold yourself as taut as a wire over the Grand Canyon.
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Marketplace
Dr. A rolled his eyes.
It was last October, and he had just come across a triage note that said, “I have a tracker in me.”
Dr. A — we’re not using his name or identifying his hospital, which is in a major American city, to protect patient safety — is 28 years old, a resident and about as green as they come.
And he’s got a patient who claims she’s got a GPS tracking device implanted in her side.
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By Jessica Taylor
 A recent study published in PLOS One showed that the clinician-patient relationship has an effect on healthcare outcomes. There's no denying that clinicians have a high-stress job atmosphere, but that shouldn't take away from the bedside manner given to patients. Whether you're on the phone or in person, your tone, mannerisms and appearance all take a toll on the patient. That said, it can also take a toll on your professional career.
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CNN
"Never will I stop having flashbacks and nightmares, and never will I be able to have a normal relationship with anyone, because I am too far from being normal again."
Late last year, the Kansas City Star, a newspaper in my home state of Missouri, reported this heartbreaking account of a victim who had been sexually assaulted for years and then publicly shamed and disowned after coming forward to seek justice.
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Domestic Shelters
Much of the attention related to domestic violence focuses on women as victims, perhaps because women are victims more often than men and because men are less likely to report abuse than women. However, men also are victims, sometimes at the hands of a female partner, and at other times a parent or same-sex partner. Below are a number of surprising statistics about the frequency of domestic violence against men.
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Medical Xpress
To hear a patient's heart, doctors used to just put an ear up to a patient's chest and listen. Then, in 1816, things changed. Lore has it that 35-year-old Paris physician Rene Laennec was caring for a young woman who was apparently plump, with a bad heart and large breasts. Dr. George Davis, an obstetrician at East Tennessee State University who collects vintage stethoscopes, said the young Dr. Laennec didn't feel comfortable pressing his ear to the woman's bosom.
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NPR
Less than half of young men have heard of emergency contraception, a recent study found, even though it's available over the counter at drug stores and is effective at preventing pregnancy after sex.
The study, published in the March issue of Journal of Adolescent Health, analyzed survey responses by 93 males between the ages of 13 and 24 who visited the adolescent medicine clinic at Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora for a physical exam, illness or injury between August and October 2014. Most had been sexually active.
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By Joan Spitrey
 If you get a group of nurses together, there is one topic they are all likely to agree on instantly — staffing. With no formal billable services, nurses are often just seen as another business expense that needs to be mitigated in the delivery of patient care. Considering most of the tasks associated with nursing are not easily measured, their value is often misunderstood and undervalued by the business leaders who make the financial decisions in healthcare.
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The Huffington Post
Everything seemed to be done right when American University investigated Faith Ferber's sexual assault report. At a hearing this fall, the male student she accused admitted that he was responsible.
And that's when things fell apart, according to Ferber.
AU, a private university in Washington, D.C., punished him with just a year of probation. The dean of students told Ferber that her attacker would at least be barred from Greek life, she told The Huffington Post. But last week she learned that was not true. He's in a fraternity now.
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