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Rewire News
Trying to understand the systems in place intended to protect immigrants in federal custody from sexual abuse is like navigating a maze, and Laura Monterrosa’s story is one example of how complicated it can get.
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If you’re looking to recognize SA Awareness month in your workplace, check out the toolkits available from the National Sexual Violence Resource Center and RAINN. Your state sexual assault coalition or local advocacy program may also have info and materials.
The Physical Exam & Utilizing the Istanbul Protocol, the third webinar in our five part, Members-Only series Medical-Forensic Evaluation of Asylum Seekers will be held on April 17, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern. Register today! This session is free and Nursing Contact Hours will be available.
IAFN’s SAFEta project will host DNA evidence in groping sexual assault cases on April 11 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern. This webinar will review basics of touch DNA, provide evidence collection guidelines, and propose programs for multidisciplinary education. This session is free and Nursing Contact Hours will be available for IAFN members only.
Join IAFN’s research committee on April 18, 2019 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern for Research 101: Stories from the experts to learn how other forensic nurse researchers started their programs of research, what they are doing, and lessons learned along the way. This session is free for IAFN members and Nursing Contact Hours will be available.
IAFN is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
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The Journal of Forensic Nursing is seeking original articles, review papers, and case reports for
a special issue to be published in 2019 highlighting research and scholarship related to trauma-informed
care relevant to forensic nursing. The deadline for submission has been extended to May 1, 2019.
Are you looking for clinical skills training or a preceptorship site? A variety of upcoming opportunities are listed on IAFN’s website.
Each year, the Association seeks to identify and recognize those individuals who have contributed significantly to the advancement of forensic nursing and to the growth and success of International Association of Forensic Nurses. Please consider nominating individuals you know who deserve recognition.
Were you last SANE-A® or SANE-P® certified in 2016? This is your year to renew! Your CE accrual start date is now tailored to YOU - based on the date you last certified. See the renewal page for details and apply online. Save $100 when your applications is received by April 30, 2019.
The Southern California chapter’s spring training will be held on April 27, 2019 in Escondido.
The Wisconsin chapter’s annual conference will be held May 13-15, 2019 in La Crosse.
The Virginia chapter is hosting their annual conference May 15-17, 2019 in Bedford.
Idaho governor signs “test all kits” bill
Illinois to launch online kit tracking
New Jersey victim’s bill of rights clears legislature
UN News
Describing how he was “frequently horrified” by the first-hand accounts of survivors in his previous role as head of the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, UN Chief António Guterres said that only last year, Rohingya refugees who had fled into Bangladesh spoke of the mass gang-rape of women and girls in their homes before they fled northern Myanamar.
“The world is growing ever more aware of the ubiquity of conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence,” he said. “We must do everything in our power to end the horror and stigma that affects hundreds of thousands of women and girls, as well as men and boys, worldwide.”
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The Conversation
One night, a woman I’ll call Tonya got a compliment from a guy when she was out with her boyfriend. Tonya’s boyfriend cursed her because another man had complimented her. He said: “You give it to everybody, I want it too.” In anticipation of his physical abuse, she reasoned, “I could go off to Wonder World.” She then injected heroin, to be “in her own world,” she later told me.
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The New Yorker
As a child growing up in Pueblo, Colorado, Jeremy Laintz travelled widely with his father, an aeronautics engineer at Lockheed Martin, who sometimes took his four kids along on business trips. Family vacations included tours of aerospace facilities and, on one occasion, a trip to watch a space-shuttle launch at Cape Canaveral. Laintz’s mother managed a bakery, and Laintz, the youngest child in the family, recalled enjoying a warm home life. He played soccer and football, and spent summers hunting and fishing on a ranch that his family owned in North Dakota. As a teenager, though, he slipped into trouble — he was arrested first for driving under the influence, and then, in his late teens, for felony car theft.
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University of Manitoba
Assessments of the number of disruptive and abusive behaviors occurring in operating rooms in the USA, Canada and elsewhere is reported in two studies in the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, which is published by Springer. Efforts are needed to eliminate these behaviors, as they may pose risks to clinician well-being and patient safety, suggests a research team from the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, University of Manitoba Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Winnipeg, Canada.
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Politico
Thousands of women were raped in Kosovo as Serb and ethnic Albanian forces fought for control of the territory two decades ago. Serb leader Slobodan Milošević's forces used rape as a tool of war — their goal was to destroy Albanians' honor and identity, according to researchers and activists. It’s a strategy that worked. Even though Kosovo eventually declared independence from Serbia, the war is not over for these survivors, who still suffer in silence.
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Associated Press
Migrants trying to reach Europe face routine rape and sexual torture throughout their journey and especially in Libya, with men facing abuse nearly as routinely as women, according to a study based on dozens of interviews with aid workers and migrants.
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ABC News
Recently it was revealed that a New South Wales hospital that does not administer rape tests was sending victims an hour away in a taxi.
A 25-year-old woman told the ABC that, after being assaulted in Port Lincoln on South Australia's west coast, she was taken on a six-hour round trip to access a forensic examination in Whyalla.
There is only one GP in Port Lincoln who provides the service for police, but she was away at the time.
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Friedrich Miescher Institute via PhysOrg
Puberty is a period of extensive changes of body morphology and function. Relatively little is known about what sets the whole process in motion. Thanks to studies in the tiny worm C. elegans, the group of Helge Großhans is getting closer to understanding how the onset of puberty is genetically controlled. Recently, they uncovered a mechanism that initiates sexual organ maturation.
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The Guardian
Rape and sexual abuse support services across England and Wales are to receive £24m in government funding over the next three years, it has been announced.
Seventy-nine rape support centres are to be awarded grants, meaning there will be government-funded services in all 42 of the country’s police and crime commissioner areas.
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New Zealand Herald
Police have charged almost five people a day with strangling or suffocating their partners since a new family violence law came into force criminalizing such acts in December 2018.
And a woman who survived a horror strangling incident, and years of other abuse at the hands of her partner, has spoken out about her ordeal to help people understand how serious the problem really is.
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Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences via Medical Xpress
There are currently more than three million people in the United States with hepatitis C, a condition that can lead to serious and even deadly liver complications. In the U.S. prison system, the prevalence of hepatitis C virus infection is currently 10 times higher than the national average. And while new HCV treatment drugs are very effective, their high cost along with very limited healthcare budget in prisons impedes universal treatment in prisons. However, new research in the INFORMS journal Operations Research has identified new protocols that could substantially decrease HCV infection in the U.S. prison system.
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ABC News
Hundreds of doctors across the country have banded together in a bid to win government support for Australia's first domestic violence trauma recovery centre to be established in New South Wales. The group, Doctors Against Violence Towards Women, have informally collaborated through social media and have argued that while crisis support was prevalent, ongoing care for victims who had suffered trauma did not exist.
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