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FORENSIC NURSES UPDATES |
Date: June 16, 2016
Time: 3:30pm EST
Hosted by OVW and IAFN, this interactive webinar will describe for stakeholders the necessity for development of the Pediatric SAFE Protocol, the contributions of both medical and multidisciplinary child sexual abuse experts in shaping the evidence-based practice recommendations within the Pediatric SAFE Protocol, and the recommendations with regard to clinicians caring for child sexual abuse victims. Register today!
We owe it to our students to hold schools accountable for taking meaningful action to stop sexual assault on campus. We owe it to them yesterday.
Add your name to tell Congress to take real action to end campus sexual assault. Pass the Campus Accountability and Safety Act.
- Gain recognition as a formal SANE Program in your area
- Boost your networking with your listing
- Attract clinicians who are passionate about the cause
Every day, visitors search the list to find local programs for support, services, employment, and education. We need YOU to help make the list complete. Have you checked your listing lately: www.ForensicNurses.org/SaneProgramListing
Are you on the list? Does your information need to be updated? Please tell us about your program by filling out the add/update form on IAFN's website.
Don't know all the answers? Worried that a colleague might also be filling it out? No problem! Every little bit helps. Share what you can, and we'll contact you if we need more. Thanks for helping us collect this valuable information.
Featured speaker, Lynda M. Teifel, BSN, RN, SANE-A, is an active Legal Nurse Consultant and Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner. Join AALNC and IAFN as Lynda guides us through the standards of care for evidence collection, documentation of injury, and maintaining a chain of custody in forensic cases. She will also review common roles and terms, and touch upon the topics of consent and untested evidence kits.
Date: June 28, 2016
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Central Time
Price: AALNC and IAFN Members $25 | Non-members $60
CNE: 1.0 Contact Hours
REGISTER TODAY!
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territories and the District of Columbia) and
federally recognized Indian tribes (as determined by the Secretary of the Interior). States,
federally recognized Indian tribes, and units of local government may partner as co-
applicants,
when necessary, to achieve the goals of this solicitation; however, a lead state or tribal agency
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HealthDay News
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has introduced a new campaign, "Clean Hands Count," to encourage health care professionals, patients and patients' families to keep their hands clean in order to prevent healthcare-associated infections. Studies show that some healthcare professionals do not follow CDC hand hygiene recommendations, with healthcare professionals cleaning their hands less than half of the time they should.
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Administration For Children & Families
The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement is to solicit proposals for projects that will address human trafficking within the child welfare population. This funding is designed to continue the development of child welfare systems’ response to human trafficking through infrastructure building and a multi-system approach with local law enforcement, juvenile justice, court systems, runaway and homeless youth programs, Children’s Justice Act grantees, child advocacy centers, and other necessary service providers.
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HealthITBuzz
ONC's Rebecca Freeman: As ONC’s Chief Nursing Officer, I spend a lot of time talking about the functionality and usability of electronic health records (EHRs) with the incredible nurses across the healthcare system. Many of us have had bad experiences using information technology (IT), and gotten frustrated with the system itself. But one thing I’ve learned in my conversations with nurses from all over is that there are many, many issues that aren’t technology or system issues at all, but rather process, workflow, or implementation challenges.
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CNN
She remembers leaving the neighborhood bar at closing time and walking down the street with the guy who kept an eye on her drink while she ducked into the restroom. She remembers telling him she didn't want to have sex. She remembers the pool of blood between her legs.
What happened in between to this Seattle-area teacher got lost in a haze — the result of a drug slipped into her drink, toxicology reports would later show. But by the next morning, at home and still bleeding, she knew what she had to do.
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By Mark Huber
 A friend had been suffering with abdominal pain for weeks. He tried to work through the issue with his family doctor, but he was referred to a specialist. When he called, he explained his symptoms and was stunned. Not only was the first available appointment six weeks away, but the scheduler was also wholly unsympathetic, even downright surly. My friend explained that six weeks was just too long to wait. The scheduler snapped back, "That's what emergency rooms are for."
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Slate
When he was 18, Raymond M. Douglas recounts in a new book, he was raped. It was late after a party at the home of a hard-drinking priest, and Douglas had picked the short straw among his friends to stay behind and make sure the guy was OK. In retrospect, Douglas writes, the priest probably wasn’t as inebriated as he seemed, for if he had been, he wouldn’t have been able to use his size advantage to overpower his victim, pin him down, and beat him into submission.
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Becker's Hospital Review
Rob Brandt, regional manager at Medline, is all too familiar with the painkiller addiction.
In high school, his son Robby was given pain medication after having his wisdom teeth taken out. He liked the way he felt and functioned just fine. He started to get pain medication through his friends and before he knew it, he was addicted. After this first year in college, he decided to get clean and entered basic military training. Unfortunately, though, his past snuck up on him and the addiction returned. In October 2011, Robby died.
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Rock One Sock
Missing children’s issues do not affect every household, but we wanted to give the average person a chance to show that they stand in solidarity with missing children and their families. Our goal is to take something tangible and make a viral phenomenon that brings hope and inspiration to National Missing Children’s Day (May 25, 2016). During the month of May, we’re asking everyone to wear one sock, take a “footsie” (a picture or video of your feet with one sock) and post it to social media using the hashtag #RockOneSock.
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Becker's Hospital Review
In the continuous movement toward higher levels of quality, safety and cost effectiveness, hospitals and health systems strive to meet a number of patient- and systems-related goals. In 2007, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement proposed a theoretical model — the Triple Aim, which collapsed the various goals to an interdependent set of three. The model suggests that U.S. healthcare system performance improvement will come through the simultaneous pursuit of improving the broadly defined experience of care, improving the health of populations and reducing the per capita cost of healthcare.
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Reuters
Mandatory vaccination policies may encourage more healthcare workers to get annual flu shots and help prevent the spread of influenza to patients, a study in one Texas health system suggests.
At the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, just 56 percent of employees got vaccinated during the 2006-2007 flu season, researchers report in the American Journal of Infection Control. But after several years of stepped up outreach efforts and on-site vaccination programs that culminated in a mandatory vaccination policy, the study found that 94 percent of employees got inoculated for the 2013-2014 flu season.
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By Joan Spitrey
 Hundreds of nurses from around the county gathered at the U.S. Capitol to raise awareness of the staffing crisis in our nation's hospitals and the need for solutions. The goal was to bring attention to two current bills before Congress that mandate national nurse-to-patient ratios that are similar to those that have been successfully in effect in California since 2004. The time has come for nurses to stand together on issues that impact not only them but also their patients.
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