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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 Audrey “Dawn” Proctor, RN SANE-A
LOCATION: Winston-Salem, NC, USA
WORK SETTING: Hospital
FORENSIC NURSING EXPERIENCE: Dawn has been a forensic nurse for 9 years
YEARS OF IAFN MEMBERSHIP: 5 years
Learn more about Dawn
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.
This month, we encourage you to wear your Forensic Nursing apparel to help start important conversations about Sexual Assault Awareness in your workplace and community.
In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, use promo code SAAWARE2018 to receive 15% off your entire store order through April 20.
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Honor your Forensic Nursing hero, mentor, or colleague. Consider nominating a colleague for one of IAFN's award. Community Partners (non-nurses) can be nominated for our Patron Award.
Honorees will be recognized during the 2018 International Conference on Forensic Nursing Science and Practice in Reno, Nevada, Oct. 24-27, 2018.
Deadline is April 13, 2018 Nominate today!
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Were you last certified in 2015? If so, you are due to renew this year. We began accepting applications for certification renewal by CE on Feb. 1, 2018; the deadline is Nov. 1 (to accrue CE and file on time).
Renewal Certificant News for 2018: Starting this year, your CE accrual start date will be individualized based on the date you last certified. See the renewal page for more details.
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Deadline for submission: May 7
Have you developed a new forensic nursing project?
Do you have research in progress?
Do you want to share your ideas with colleagues?
Poster sessions allow presenters to network with peers one-on-one, exchanging ideas and learning from one another outside the traditional conference sessions. We also 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.
Submissions must be completed by May 7, 2018
IAFN is once again collaborating with the American Nurses Foundation (ANF) to offer a $10,000 research grant to a forensic nurse researcher. 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. 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.
Efficient Gov
The most common date rape drug is legal, and sexual assault that involves it varies under individual state consent laws.
While government health and sexual violence awareness websites all tend to address Rohypnol, GHB and ketamine as the most common drugs behind sexual assault, many experts point to alcohol as the most common date rape drug.
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Chicago Tribune
Attorney General Lisa Madigan called on legislators to require that state hospitals have a trained medical provider available to treat sexual assault patients.
“After years of unwillingness and delay, this bill, if it becomes law, will finally require Illinois hospitals to do what they should have been doing all along,” she said. “I think it should be a moral obligation, but because it hasn’t worked that way, we’ll make it a legal obligation.”
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OJJDP
Applicants for competitive discretionary grants must apply through Grants.gov. Grants.gov requires applicants to complete a three step registration process which can take up to 5 days to complete. Additional information regarding the registration process can be found at www.grants.gov.
Existing or continuing discretionary grantees will continue to use the Office of Justice Program's Grants Management System (GMS) to apply, as will applicants for formula grants.
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NWI Times
Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter, the Fair Haven rape crisis center, the county's Sexual Assault Response Team and others announced a series of reforms aimed at ending the local backlog of untested rape kits.
The policy changes were sparked by the results released in December of a state survey of law enforcement agencies and health care providers that found 2,560 completed sexual assault examination kits — that potentially could be used at a criminal trial — were never submitted for laboratory testing.
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CNA, NSO
Patient non-adherence can come in many forms: unwillingness to follow a course of therapy, repeated missed appointments, rejecting treatment recommendations, reluctance to take medications, refusal to provide information or chronic late payments. If left unchecked, such conduct may result in litigation. The objective of this presentation is to empower nurses with strategies to not only recognize these patient behaviors but also take steps to reduce the likelihood of malpractice claims. Using selected claim scenarios, RNs and LPNs/LVNs can examine their own current risk control practices in relation to the claims and losses experienced by their peers.
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KXAS-TV
Sexual assault victims in rural areas now have more help in their corner.
Texas Health Resources has placed special forensic nurses as part of its sexual assault nurse examiners program, or SANE program, at several of its rural hospitals.
The SANE launch at Texas Health Azle is part of region-wide expansion effort.
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The Journal.ie
The repeal of the Eighth Amendment would ensure equal access to abortions for abuse and rape victims.
That is the contention of the Together For Yes campaign which today launched its position paper on the proposed legislation in the result of a Yes vote next month.
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Del Rio News-Herald
A member of a local coalition that aims to treat and support victims of sexual assault recently presented information to the City Council to make their need for financial support known.
Adrienna Gonzalez, Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Coordinator for Val Verde Regional Medical Center, in February addressed the Del Rio City Council to explain the community’s need for the SANE program, which operates in unison with the county’s Sexual Assault Response Team (SART), in addition to SART’s other needs.
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WDIO-TV
When someone is sexually assaulted having access to resources for help can many times save their life, and now, there's a new resource for victims in the Twin Ports.
It's called SANE or the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner program. It's a partnership between Essentia Health — Superior and local advocacy groups aimed at making getting support for victims much easier.
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