This message was sent to ##Email## To advertise in this publication please click here September 16, 2021 .TOP NEWS Hospitals with more inpatient nurse practitioners linked to better outcomes, more satisfied patients Newswise According to a new study published today in Medical Care, hospitals that employ more inpatient nurse practitioners (NPs) have lower surgical mortality, higher patient satisfaction, and lower costs of care. Nurse practitioners are registered nurses (RNs) with advanced graduate education and expanded legal scope of practice to prescribe treatments including pain medications. READ MORE .FORENSIC NURSES UPDATES The IAFN2021 Virtual Conference is Just a Few Weeks Away! Join us for this year's virtual conference, offering more than 80 recorded sessions available in seven tracks, plus poster sessions, keynotes, exhibitors, and more! Registration is open through September 27, 2021. You can complete the conference offerings on your own timeline over the course of several weeks beginning October 1 and ending November 30, 2021. Register Today! FREE Social Justice Training — Implicit Bias Due to high demand, the Social Justice Committee added additional dates for the live 3-hour training on the topic of Implicit Bias. CE credits will be provided. Space is limited; register today! The International Association of Forensic Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Submit Your Certification Renewal Application Today If you last certified in 2018, this is your year to renew! Not sure when you last certified? Click to search our SANE-A or SANE-P databases. Upcoming Webinar Sex Trafficking in Indian Country and Alaska, Part 2 October 7, 2-3:30 PM EST Offer Nursing CE at Your Next Event IAFN is committed to educational and professional development activities that support evidence-based, high-quality care of forensic patients. Offer CE for your activity through IAFN's affordable approvership program. Members receive additional discounts! Learn more. .INDUSTRY NEWS 'We live searching': Mexico families look for the missing, while 52,000 aren't identified NBC News María Isabel Cruz Bernal says she has seen it all. She has witnessed mothers crying because they can’t find their children, parents upset because they’ve been given only a few bone fragments, relatives going through nervous breakdowns because they received the wrong bodies and families searching for years — only to get their loved ones’ remains in poorly sealed garbage bags. READ MORE Experts say Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's rape comments perpetuate a dangerous stereotype about sexual violence USA Today A Texas law went into effect this month that bans abortions at six weeks with no exceptions for rape and incest, making it one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country. When a reporter Tuesday asked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott how the law will impact rape and incest survivors, he said he intends to “eliminate rape” in his state. READ MORE California moves to outlaw 'stealthing,' or removing condom The Associated Press California lawmakers moved to make the state the first to outlaw “stealthing,” which is removing a condom without permission during intercourse. Legislators sent Gov. Gavin Newsom a bill on Tuesday adding the act to the state’s civil definition of sexual battery. It makes it illegal to remove the condom without obtaining verbal consent. But it doesn’t change the criminal code. Instead, it would amend the civil code so that a victim could sue the perpetrator for damages, including punitive damages. READ MORE On top of the pandemic, hospitals face another crisis: Children and teenagers are being shot in record numbers TIME TiKiya Allen was riding her bicycle, the sun still in the sky, when she was struck in the back with a bullet and killed. The 18-year-old nursing student, who had just finished her first year at Oakland University in Michigan, was on her way to a friend’s house in Detroit around 4:30 p.m. this past July 21 when gunfire sprayed from the open window of a car that had rolled up nearby. READ MORE Hospital-based intervention can save lives. A growing movement is betting on Medicaid to fund it. Next City The violence intervention team at Hartford Communities That Care is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Within 20 minutes of getting a call from Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, the staffers spring into action to help a shooting victim recover — from more than just their physical wounds. In many cases, the patient is still unconscious, their name unknown. READ MORE SA's DNA backlog won't be cleared before 2023, at the current processing rate Business Insider The South African Police Service (SAPS) is making slow progress in processing its backlog of DNA samples, having reduced outstanding cases by just 21% over the past five months. South Africa's fight against gender-based violence and sexual assault is being undermined by SAPS' delay in processing DNA samples. READ MORE Preventing the long-term effects of traumatic brain injury Medical Xpress You've been in a car accident and sustained a head injury. You recovered, but years later you begin having difficulty sleeping. You also become very sensitive to noise and bright lights, and find it hard to carry out your daily activities, or perform well at your job. This is a common situation after a traumatic brain injury—many people experience bad side effects months or years later. READ MORE Study shows contact with police may be detrimental to health, well-being of black youth Newswise According to a Johns Hopkins Medicine study published today in JAMA Pediatrics, exposure to police — even in instances in which the officers are providing assistance — may be detrimental to the health and well-being of Black youth, especially males, and can be associated with poor mental health, substance use, risky sexual behaviors and impaired safety. READ MORE Study compares three types of state legislations aimed at ensuring adequate nurse staffing News-Medical Across the nation, states are grappling with alternative approaches to address the heightened problem of low nurse staffing in hospitals. A new national study finds that while legislation to mandate hospital nurse-to-patient staffing ratios is associated with a significant increase in nurse staffing, two other popular approaches – mandating public reporting of nurse staffing levels and hospital staffing committees that include frontline nurses – have had little or no impact on nurse staffing levels. READ MORE   Forensic Nurses News Connect with IAFN Jason Zimmerman, Director of Publishing, MultiView, 469-420-2686 | Download media kit Anne Casey, Content Editor, 469-420-2619 | Contribute news International Association of Forensic Nurses 6755 Business Parkway, #303 | Elkridge, MD 21075 1-410-626-7805  |  Contact Us  |  www.forensicnurses.org Click here to unsubscribe.  Learn how to add us to your safe sender list so our emails get to your inbox. ADVERTISE SUBSCRIBE PAST ISSUES   7701 Las Colinas Ridge, Ste. 800, Irving, TX 75063