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Vox
America’s crises are boiling over, one into another. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, masses of people are taking to the streets to protest police brutality after the death of George Floyd in Minnesota and other victims of racial violence.
These two stories are linked. They are both public health stories. The link is systemic racism.
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Comprised of healthcare professionals who are dedicated to providing trauma-informed, patient-centered care to victims of violence, the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) condemns discrimination, racism, and violence in all its forms. Recent and historical acts of lethal, race-based police brutality—both publicized and not—lay bare that racism is a persistent public health threat to the safety, lives, and well-being of the individuals and communities that experience it. Condemnation alone, however, is not enough.
Read IAFN's full statement.
This newly released video series will demystify the testimony process and show how to prepare and deliver effective, evidence-based testimony.
2020 is the "Year of the Nurse." Make it your year to become certified! Display your expertise. Grow your career potential. Boost your CV/resume. Fortify your credibility when testifying. Register for the September exam today.
Members - The Nominating Committee is accepting applications from regular members for the following open positions on the Board of Directors, Nominating Committee, and Commission for Forensic Nursing Certification. Apply by July 3, 2020.
- President-Elect
- Treasurer
- Director at Large (3 positions available)
- Nominating Committee Member
- CFNC Certificant Commission
This is a time to come together with your peers, ask questions, and discuss creative solutions to challenges COVID-19 is presenting to our patients and each other. During our next Open Office Hours we will discuss self-care with Kim Nash, BSN, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P and Nicole Stahlmann, MN, RN, SANE-A, AFN-BC. Register today.
June 10, 2:00-3:00 PM EST
The 2020 International Conference on Forensic Nursing Science and Practice has moved online. Registration will open July 20 and sessions will begin September 23.
All regular members receive unlimited free access as part of their membership. Not a member? Join today!
June 24, 2020, 2:00-3:30 PM EST
This free webinar is designed to assist correctional professionals and SANE/SAFE providers who serve adult and juvenile confinement facilities. The presenters will explore how correctional facility operations can be coordinated with medical forensic services. Register today.
ProPublica
Alaska has the highest rate of sexual assault in the nation, nearly four times the national average. About one third of women in Alaska have experienced sexual violence in their lifetime. Yet it is a secret so steeped into everyday life that to discuss it is to disrupt the norm.
These 29 women and men did not choose to be violated, but they now are choosing to speak about what happened to them.
Last year, the Anchorage Daily News partnered with ProPublica to investigate sexual violence in Alaska, and explore why the situation isn’t getting better. They continue that work this year.
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Freethink
Anew study sponsored by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases — the agency under the aegis of America's favorite scientist, Anthony Fauci — shows promising results for an injectable HIV drug that can provide longer-acting HIV prevention than the daily prevention pill, Science reports. The drug isn't a vaccine, but it's getting closer to working like one.
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University of Exeter via Medical Xpress
Empowering people to intervene when they witness unacceptable behaviour can help to prevent domestic violence and abuse, a new study has found.
Specific training for bystanders makes them "significantly" more confident to take action when they see or hear wrongdoing related to domestic abuse in their community, according to the research.
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M Health Lab
They worked in hospitals hundreds of miles from the epicenter of COVID-19. Their city of 24 million people locked down hard enough, and did enough testing, that it only had a few hundred cases of the disease.
But hundreds of young Chinese doctors in a new study still experienced a sharp drop in mood, a rise in depression and anxiety symptoms, and a doubling of their fear of workplace violence, in just the first month of the coronavirus pandemic.
The new findings, published in JAMA Network Open by an American and Chinese team, show in stark terms the potential mental toll of being a frontline healthcare worker in the time of COVID-19.
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Politico
Canada's healthcare providers are warning that COVID-19 shutdowns are negatively influencing another outbreak: sexually transmitted diseases.
Nine of the country’s 10 provinces had declared STI outbreaks before the coronavirus arrived. Then shelter-in-place directives impeded access to prevention, testing and treatment as clinics slashed services and labs became backed up by COVID-19 tests. Now health experts are warning the lockdown could intensify a recent resurgence in syphilis, chlamydia and even antibiotic-resistant strains of gonorrhea.
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Cosmos Magazine
Estimating someone’s time of death can be a complicated and vague affair, with important ramifications – especially if it’s suspicious.
And let’s face it — as wryly noted on Coroner Talk, perpetrators are highly unlikely to check the time they committed a homicide and wouldn’t let on even if they did.
Scientists say they have now devised a simplified, versatile numerical model to predict body cooling and thus the time elapsed since death (the post-mortem interval), reporting their findings in the journal Science Advances.
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