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CNN
Sexual abuse of vulnerable women and girls by international aid workers is "endemic" and has been happening for years, with perpetrators easily moving around the sector undetected, according to a damning U.K. government report published.
The inquiry heard "horrifying" stories of aid staff sexually exploiting the very people they were meant to be helping, including one homeless girl in Haiti who was given $1 by a worker for a nongovernmental organization (NGO) and raped.
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Submit your educational activity/program for review to award continuing education (CE) contact hours through the IAFN Approver Unit. IAFN is approved by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) as an Approver of individual education activities. The services provided by the Approver Unit include assistance with the application process, review of the application, and granting approval for the applicant to provide contact hours for an individual learning activity.
Learn more about IAFN's Approver Unit here, or email the Continuing Nursing Manager, Ecoee Rooney, DNP, RN-BC.
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We began accepting applications for certification renewal by CE on Feb 1, 2018; the deadline is Nov 1 to accrue CE and file on time. Late filing deadline is Nov 15, 2018 and includes a late fee. Renewal applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
On Sept. 5, 2018 at 1:00pm 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.
Military Times
Domestic violence will officially become a separate crime under the Uniform Code of Military Justice when President Donald Trump signs the annual defense authorization act into law next week.
Military officials have prosecuted such crimes in the past, but under more general justice categories such as assault. They carry severe penalties including jail time and dismissal from the armed forces. But analysts say that doesn’t always convey the seriousness of the offense.
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KUT-AM
When a prospective nurse joins the field, they expect to endure a lot of less-than-pleasant experiences as part of the job: bodily fluids, people in pain and grieving families are among them. The probability of violence and abuse isn’t likely to be on their radar — but it should be.
That’s because hospitals experience one of the highest rates of violence of any workplace, second only to law enforcement.
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The Guardian
Somalia’s attorney general has announced the nation’s first prosecution for female genital mutilation after a 10-year-old girl bled to death following a traditional cutting last week.
The announcement has been described as a “defining moment” in a nation where 98 percent of all women and girls undergo FGM, the highest rate anywhere in the world.
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Reuters
Even when a hospital is equipped with sexual evidence kits, known as “rape kits,” a small percentage of assaulted women go through with the entire procedure and agree to release evidence to police, a new study finds.
Canadian researchers looking at data from an Ottawa hospital found that less than two thirds of women who were eligible for a rape kit completed one and less than a third of those women released the results to the police, according to the study published in Emergency Medicine Journal.
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Delaware Online
The 16-year-old girl came into Bayhealth’s emergency room for psychiatric concerns. The older man with her sat in the corner.
The girl had no identification on her, no insurance card, no form of money. The man answered the nurse’s questions for the girl during the examination, making the nurse concerned — and suspicious.
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PressPubs
A new state law co-authored by Rep. Randy Jessup (R-Shoreview) took effect Aug. 1. Its provisions will reform the way sexual assault examination kits are handled, provide clarity to law enforcement and put power back in the hands of survivors seeking justice, according to Jessup’s office.
The law came after a 2015 audit done by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) found a statewide backlog of nearly 3,500 untested kits, including some involving open cases.
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Council on Foreign Relations
Next week, some 15,000 participants from around the world will come together to discuss progress on responding to the HIV epidemic. The 22nd International AIDS Conference is an opportunity to reflect on how far we have come, but also to chart our way forward. This year is a particularly opportune moment for reflection as it also marks the 15th Anniversary of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
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Science Magazine
In a Journal of Traumatic Stress study of military veterans, lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) veterans were twice as likely to have experienced sexual assault while in the military compared with non-LGB veterans. In addition, the experience of military sexual assault was directly linked to the presence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression among LGB veterans.
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USA Today
The City of Milwaukee has dramatically scaled back testing for sexually transmitted infections despite having some of the worst STI rates in the nation.
Under a directive from interim Health Commissioner Patricia McManus, nurses can no longer perform a wide range of tests at city health clinics.
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