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Bruise detection and diagnosis is currently conducted by sight, under regular light, and bruises are often difficult to see on victims of violence depending on their skin color and the age of their injury.
As a result, individuals with dark skin tones are at a significant disadvantage in having their injuries properly identified and documented. This can have a significant impact on both medical and legal outcomes for victims of violence. For example, strangulation, a violent act often perpetrated during intimate partner violence, is now charged by many states as a felony. Detecting bruises associated with these dangerous offenses can provide important evidence towards prosecution.
To address the challenges of detecting bruises, researchers conducted a randomized control trial with 157 participants to test the effectiveness of an alternate light source at detecting bruises compared to commonly used white light.
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Members are invited to join IAFN at our weekly office hours to discuss forensic nursing practice, policy, and procedure impacted by COVID-19. Register to join us for an upcoming session on May 15, 20, or 28.
Nursing Contact Hours are available for IAFN Members.
- May 8: Interpreting Toxicology and Alcohol/Drug Facilitated Sexual Assault
- May 11: Privacy and the Medical Forensic Exam: FAQs for SANEs Serving Patients on Campus
The International Association of Forensic Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
ReliefWeb
The restrictive measures designed to limit the spread of COVID-19 around the world, increase the risk of domestic violence, including intimate partner violence. As health and social protection as well as legal systems that protect all women and girls under normal circumstances are weakened or under pressure by the COVID-19, specific measures should be implemented to prevent violence against women and girls. The emergency responses should ensure that all women and girls who are refugees, migrants or internally displaced are protected. Sexual and reproductive health needs, including psychosocial support services, and protection from gender-based violence, must be prioritized to ensure continuity. We must also assume responsibility for social protection and ensure adolescent health, rights and wellbeing during schools close-down. Any restrictions to the enjoyment of human rights should be prescribed by law, and in accordance with international law and rigorously assessed.
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Nursing World
During this unprecedented time of fear and stress, nurses are at high risk for mental health issues like anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress. Help is available, and you are not alone.
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Vanderbilt University via Medical Xpress
The stresses placed on families, combined with the closure of classrooms and child care during the COVID-19 outbreak, heightens the risks of domestic abuse and neglect, according to a new Vanderbilt University report published online in Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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University of Surrey via PhysOrg
The Video Enabled Justice Independent Evaluation was led by academics from the University of Surrey's Department of Sociology and the Centre for Translation Studies in the School of Literature and Languages. Sponsored by the Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner Katy Bourne, the report investigated the impact of a new booking tool used in the organization of first appearance remand hearings in video court.
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The Atlantic
Figures from New American Economy, a research and advocacy organization, show that 16.5 percent of all healthcare workers in the United States are immigrants, with even greater representation in specific fields such as home health aid, where nearly 37 percent of workers are immigrants. And perhaps no place has played as large a role in this as the Philippines, which for decades has provided the nurses, porters, and aides who have formed the crucial infrastructure of hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare facilities in wealthier parts of the world. Overseas, Filipino nurses have found themselves thrust into medical systems—even those in more developed, and theoretically more capable, countries—that have proved ill-prepared to handle a public-health crisis on the scale of what the coronavirus has brought.
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The New York Times
New legislation would try to curb illegal imagery with record levels of funding for law enforcement. The bill, coming in response to a Times investigation, also calls for a new oversight position in the White House.
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CTV News
A massive research project that involved more than 1,000 survivors of sexual violence has now been published.
The report, titled "Sexual Violence in Saskatchewan: Voices, Stories, Insights, and Actions from the Front Lines" was spearheaded by the University of Saskatchewan's Community-University Institute for Social Research and has the backing of the federal government, Sexual Assault Services of Saskatchewan, the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations and more.
It brings details to light on the state of sexual violence in Saskatchewan.
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Engage
Domestic violence affects more than one-third of the women population in India, causing physical, mental, and psychological trauma to the survivors. While there have been specific interventions in urban India to combat gender violence, rural India is still in want of such initiatives. Against such a backdrop, the Society for Women’s Action and Training Initiatives has devised a novel initiative to tackle domestic violence in rural Patan district of Gujarat by collaborating with the existing healthcare system. Since 2012, it has been able to offer counselling, mediation, relief, and legal recourse to the victims of violence.
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Science Magazine
Researchers at Nagoya University have discovered a neural circuit that drives physical responses to emotional stress. The circuit begins in deep brain areas, called the dorsal peduncular cortex and the dorsal tenia tecta, that send stress signals to the hypothalamus, a small region in the brain that controls the body’s vital functions. The findings were recently published in the journal Science.
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Haaretz
The Labor, Social Affairs and Social Welfare Ministry reported to the Knesset on May 3 that, since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in Israel, which placed a large portion of the population in lockdown at home, four people have committed suicide in cases related to domestic violence.
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University of Queensland via Medical Xpress
Fear is an important survival mechanism, and so too is the ability to inhibit fear when it's no longer needed. In order to counter-balance fear, the brain engages in fear extinction. In this process, memories are formed during non-fearful experiences with similar environmental elements. These non-fearful memories then compete with the original fear memory.
Now, in a new paper published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, the University of Queensland's Professor Tim Bredy and his colleagues show that the ability to extinguish fearful memories in this way relies on the flexibility of your DNA.
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Science Magazine
A drug that lowers levels of the male hormone testosterone in the body reduces the risk of men with pedophilic disorder sexually abusing children, a study from Karolinska Institutet published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry shows.
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