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FORENSIC NURSES UPDATES |
Check out The Associations recent press releases and help us bring awareness to the issues.
Click here for our Position Papers and all of our Press Releases.
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.
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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Last two weeks to comment on joint ENA/IAFN position statement for 30 day member comment period. Please visit the Forensic Nurses Open Community (make sure you are signed in) to read and comment on changes or suggestions directly in the discussion thread. Comment period closes on May 11.
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INDUSTRY NEWS |
CNN
In a bathroom, the predator has placed a child on the counter to photograph his evil acts.
In the background of the photo, which was posted online, are products including prescription medication.
But zooming in on that pill bottle makes the details unreadable.
In a small, dark lab Jim Cole, special agent and supervisor of Victim Identification at the Homeland Security Investigations Cyber Crimes Center gets to work using the latest technology available.
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Health Leaders Media
Have you ever found yourself poring over stacks of data, feeling more like a statistician than a nurse? If you have, welcome to the world of big data. "You have all of these different data sources coming at you on a weekly, monthly, quarterly basis. The CFO has a stack of data for you, your productivity-management engineer people have a stack of data for you, HR has a stack of data for you, and then your quality director, your clinical folks, have a stack of data for you," says Jane Englebright, RN, PhD, CEBP, FAAN, chief nursing executive and senior vice president at Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA.
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The Washington Post
There's something about Atlanta, Chicago and Detroit that traps children in poverty. Poor kids who grow up there are less likely to reach the middle class as adults than poor kids who grow up in, say, Salt Lake City, according to a now-famous study released three years ago that found wide geographic variation in economic mobility across the country.
Precisely what that something is, though, the authors couldn't say.
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Hospitals & Health Networks
We all know that nursing can be one of the most stressful professions, and there are lots of studies to prove so. Often, the knee-jerk reaction can be to just hire more nurses to try to lighten the workload, but some believe that’s a bad idea if they’re being brought into a disorganized hospital, NPR’s Shots blog reports.
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InForum
For children, the wounds of a traumatic experience can run deep, and the scars can linger for years. This has long been intuitive to people who work with traumatized kids.
Now there's a growing body of research that shows how these experiences can derail a child's normal brain development, increasing the chance of mental health problems like depression, anxiety, eating disorders and substance abuse.
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Nurse.com
Recently, the nursing profession has emphasized the role of the nurse as leader. It is critical to keep in mind, however, that leadership is not a new role for nurses. Nurses have undertaken this obligation and duty for many years.
A 2016 released e-book by the American Nurses Association, “Nightingale’s Legacy: The Evolution of American Nurse Leaders,” affirms the “historical achievements of 20 prominent nurse leaders from Florence Nightingale’s time to the present,” according to Nursebooks.
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Slate
Almost a year after the graduation of Emma Sulkowicz — the Columbia student who protested her alleged rape by carrying a mattress around campus for two semesters — and Paul Nungesser — her accused rapist — a New York judge has dismissed Nungesser’s lawsuit against their alma mater.
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By Keith Carlson
In an era of nursing faculty shortages and a highly competitive job market, supporting prenursing students is crucial. We've all heard stories abound about individuals who are lucky enough to get accepted into nursing school, graduate in good standing and then can't find a job. Many of those newly minted nurses can't find the med-surg jobs everyone says they need in order to succeed. Meanwhile, other employers refuse to hire them until they have med-surg experience.
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Battered Women's Justice Project
Dr. Temple will discuss sexting (a combination of the words sex and texting), the practice of electronically sending sexually explicit images or messages from one person to another. Sexting has received an abundance of attention in the popular press. Much of this attention has been limited to (1) legal cases in which teens who create, send, receive, store, and/or disseminate nude pictures of themselves or another teen face criminal charges including child pornography, and (2) cases in which teens are harassed and bullied as a result of the nude picture being distributed beyond the intended audience.
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Advance Healthcare Network
Nurse mangers, charge nurses, and team leaders are responsible for promoting safe and effective patient care while maintaining the highest clinical standards in that setting. Not only must the team leader be an expert clinician, but they must also be skilled in delegation, supervision and the evaluation of subordinate staff's activities. Nurse mangers are accountable not only to the patients whom they care for but also to those whom they supervise. The three most essential concepts for the nurse manager, supervisor, or team leader to concentrate on to prevent being found liable for negligence are delegation; appropriate nursing supervision; and scope and standards of practice.
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