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The #MeToo movement has touched almost every industry in the past year, and state legislatures have been under growing pressure to curb sexual assault and harassment in private workplaces and within their own chambers. But has the reckoning had an impact on the law?
Early signs point to yes.
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Expand your knowledge, build your skills, and refine your technique in the evaluation and management of pediatric strangulation. The new online IAFN Pediatric Strangulation Case Review & Assessment offers 20 Nursing Contact Hours and is now available for $199. IAFN Members, check your email for a $50 discount code!
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Are you joining us at our Annual Conference in October? Don’t miss the chance to earn 24 additional Contact Hours by enrolling in the post conference Pediatric Strangulation workshop. The 4 hour live workshop includes access to the Pediatric Strangulation Case Review mentioned above.
IAFN is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
On Sept. 5, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern, join presenters from the National TeleNursing Center (NTC) to learn how they piloted the use of Video Conferencing Technology (VCT) to support SANE/SAFE and emergency department clinicians caring for sexual assault patients across 3 states with diverse communities (tribal, rural, military). Free for IAFN Members. Register.
IAFN’s Summer Sizzle Sale runs through Wednesday, Aug. 15. Get a $5 Superpower Tee before they are gone. As an added bonus use promo code SUMMER18 to receive free shipping on your entire purchase.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is offering a free download of their latest publication: Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. This report reviews the research on the extent to which women in the fields of science, engineering, and medicine are victimized by sexual harassment and examines the existing information on the extent to which sexual harassment in academia negatively impacts the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women pursuing scientific, engineering, technical, and medical careers.
WCCO-TV
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension completed an audit in 2015 that showed nearly 3,500 kits were untested and backlogged. Now, a new law will put a stricter timeline on processing the kits
“To make sure that survivors’ needs are heard, and that the criminal justice system is supporting survivors of sexual abuse,” said Teri McLaughlin from the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault.
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NIH
The U.S. National Library of Medicine is currently hosting a virtual exhibit on the historical role of nurses in responding to victims of domestic violence. During the late 20th century, nurses worked to reform a medical profession that overwhelmingly failed to acknowledge violence against women as a serious health issue. Beginning in the late 1970s, nurses were in the vanguard as they pushed the larger medical community to identify victims, adequately respond to their needs, and work towards the prevention of domestic violence. This is their story.
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Office of Justice Programs
Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) programs have been implemented throughout the United States with the goals of providing enhanced victim care post-assault and improving the criminal justice response to sexual assault. In this study, NIJ-funded researchers examined how SANEs can use a practitioner-oriented evaluation toolkit to assess the impact of their programs.
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Office of Justice Programs
The National Institute of Justice, a component of the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs today announced a new resource for medical examiners, coroners and death investigators. A product of a Department of Justice and Department of Health and Human Services working group launched in March 2018, the resource page serves as a single source for information regarding current federal programs and grant-funding opportunities that support medicolegal death investigation activities to advance both public safety and public health initiatives.
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The Atlantic
“Just leave.”
It’s the advice many domestic-violence victims hear most. But leaving — the meetings with lawyers, the court appearances, the apartment hunting, the counseling sessions, the all-consuming physical and emotional path to recovery — requires time and flexibility. Dawn Dalton, the policy director at the Washington, D.C., Coalition Against Domestic Violence, said scheduling demands are consistently the largest obstacle standing between the victim and a different life: “I hear, again and again, ‘I just can’t get time off work.’”
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PBS
On the day of Anthony Bourdain’s death by suicide, calls to Community Crisis Services, Inc. (CCSI), a crisis center that answers calls to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, went up 500 percent. Across the country, counselors scrambled to field the spike in calls. Tim Jansen, the center’s executive director, brought in extra staff and answered calls himself. It wasn’t enough.
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Forbes
Blood stains may soon be able to give forensic analysts a crucial piece of information: the age of the victim.
A new method devised by University at Albany chemists Kyle Doty and Igor Lednev was recently published in the American Chemical Society journal Central Science. Using blood from 45 donors, they were able to distinguish unique profiles from the newborns, adolescents, and adults.
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