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The New York Times
Mental health experts recognize that PTSD can affect nurses, both military and civilian. As many as 28 percent of nurses experience PTSD at some point in their careers, said Meredith Mealer, an associate professor at the Anschutz Medical Campus at the University of Colorado, Denver, though healthcare providers still often struggle to treat it.
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Demystifying Care of Patients with Mental Illness Following a Sexual Assault
June 10, 2019; 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Eastern
Recent research suggests that up to 40 percent of patients who present for care following a sexual assault have some history of mental illness. But there has been limited academic work that examines unique considerations that may arise when caring for this patient population. How do we best provide medical care and forensic services for patients with mental illness in the acute setting following a reported sexual assault? How do we determine when it is, and is not, appropriate to offer a sexual assault medical forensic exam (SAMFE)? In this webinar, an interdisciplinary panel of SANEs and psychiatrists will highlight some of the challenges faced and questions that may arise. Register.
IAFN is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Join IAFN’s SAFEta project at a FREE, one-day training on how to recognize, identify, screen for, and respond to human trafficking in a trauma-informed way on Thursday, May 30, 2019 in Centennial, CO. The training is intended for SANE, Sexual Assault Forensic Examiners (SAFE), or forensic nurse examiners or other health care providers who work with trafficking patients.
The North Carolina chapter is hosting a conference on May 20, 2019 in Raleigh.
Alaska passes bill addressing strangulation and assault
North Carolina senate approves bill to create standardized kit
Medpage Today
Many of the suicide risk factors for nurses are the same as in the general population, said Sidney Zisook, MD, a psychiatry professor at the University of California San Diego, whose research focuses on mood disorders. These include past history of a suicide attempt, suicidal ideation, and past or present history of a serious mental illness such as depression or bipolar disorder.
Nurses are no more immune to these factors than anyone, Zisook said.
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The New York Times
Efforts by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to overhaul federal rules on sexual misconduct have focused public attention on college campuses, where assault, rape and harassment have made headlines for years. But her efforts to change those rules, put into place more protections for the accused and offer relief for educational institutions, have prompted concerns from elementary and secondary school leaders, public school superintendents and other educators that highlight how schools grapple with sexual misconduct involving much younger students.
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Massey University
A new research report from Massey University’s Healthy Work Group has outlined the management competencies needed to both prevent and manage workplace bullying in the nursing sector.
Funded by the College of Nurses Aotearoa, New Zealand, the report aims to address a persistent problem in the sector, as shown by a recent Waikato District Health Board staff survey that indicated 32 percent of respondents felt bullied at work.
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The Kansas City Star
A hospital in northeast Kansas divulged intimate private details of a woman’s sexual assault evaluation and treatment to her rapist, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court.
And months later, after a “barrage” of harassment, the woman was raped again by the same man, according to the suit.
The woman filed the lawsuit against Atchison Hospital and the X‐ray technician accused of disclosing the patient’s information to her attacker.
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PhysOrg
A team of researchers from the University of California, the University of Michigan, Kaiser Permanente Colorado Institute for Health Research, the State University of New York and the University of Colorado School of Medicine has found evidence that incarcerating people who commit serious crimes does not prevent them from committing more crimes once they are released. In their paper published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, the researchers describe a study they conducted using statistics from people incarcerated in Michigan prisons for committing violent crimes, and what they found.
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Yale University via Medical Xpress
The risk of suicide among individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder is much higher than the general population, but identifying those individuals at greatest risk has been difficult. However, a team at Yale has discovered a biological marker linked to individuals with PTSD who are most likely to think about suicide, the researchers reported May 13 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Ohio University Compass
Where does suicide live in Ohio? How old is it? What does it look like?
According to a new study released by The Ohio Alliance for Innovation in Population Health, its identity is increasingly comprised of individuals both young and old, with suicide rates rising more than 36 percent for those ages 20 to 29 and approximately 57 percent for those aged 60 or older in the last 10 years.
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Skift
TripAdvisor, the world’s largest travel website with 490 million monthly unique visitors, still won’t delete a hotel listing because of sexual assault allegations or convictions, but it has made it easier to find guest reviews about sexual assault.
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Medpage Today
"Tongue kissing" may be an overlooked risk factor for transmission of oropharyngeal, or throat gonorrhea, among men who have sex with men, researchers found.
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Citylab
John Singleton, the groundbreaking director who died last month at age 51 after suffering a stroke, grew up in South Central Los Angeles. In 1991, at first-night screenings in South Central for his debut film Boyz n the Hood, violence broke out. At least one man was killed. The then-23-year-old Singleton remarked about the stress of it: “I think I lost about five years of my life.” He was channeling a bit of conventional wisdom: that extreme stress has lasting effects on health and well-being.
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UMass Med Now
A new study by UMass Medical School researchers finds hospitals across the United States are seeing a trend in children and young adults being hospitalized as a result of self-inflicted wounds from guns. The research team found that having any mental health disorder was associated with an almost 12 times higher likelihood of having an admission for suicide attempt by firearm. The findings are published in the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery.
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Saskatoon Star-Phoenix
Saskatchewan will be offering paid leave to victims of domestic and sexual violence who require time off from work.
The government has introduced and passed legislation that it expects to take effect later this month.
The change means employees, who were previously entitled to take 10 unpaid days of leave, can take five paid days and five unpaid days off.
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University of Surrey via Medical Xpress
Using live video streaming from the scene of accidents and medical emergencies to the dispatch team of a Helicopter Emergency Medical Service has public support and the potential to be rolled out across the UK's ambulance network , according to the team behind a scientific study.
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Vox
Sarah’s Instagram feed is pretty typical for a 21-year-old model-slash-influencer living in Florida. She stands dreamily in front of some ferns. She’s clutching Starbucks’s new Cloud Macchiato. She poses on porches, by murals, in bathrooms, often with lengthy captions that reveal what she’s up to this weekend (wedding planning, working), words of inspiration, and her very relatable love of donuts.
There’s one important difference: in all of them, she’s wearing scrubs.
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