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ABC News
Regulating firearm ownership for at-risk individuals, such as those with a prior felony or domestic violence convictions, is already written into federal law. Now, according to new research, there may be a reason to examine alcohol-related offenses as a precursor to partner violence, too.
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Were you last SANE-A® or SANE-P® certified in 2016? This is your year to renew! November 1, 2019 is the last day to accrue CE and file on time. See the renewal page for details and apply online.
It’s time to start planning for Forensic Nurses Week, November 11-15, 2019. Download or order your FREE poster (just pay shipping) and check out our planning guide, filled with links to web banners, flyers, a thank you note, a certificate, and more.
The application period is now open for the IAFN Foundation Conference scholarships. Additionally, the Foundation has launched a new award – the Georgia Pasqualone Camera Award - established to provide camera equipment for those facilities or teams with no existing camera.
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Duquesne University School of Education
The forensic nursing community has long known that the lack of expert Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE) throughout the country has been a major barrier regarding attempts to increase the number of SANEs. Many nurses complete the didactic SANE course, but then find it difficult to identify an expert SANE in their clinical area who can then mentor them through their first exams with a patient who has been sexually assaulted. The mentor would then be available to them to answer their questions as they begin to accumulate their required hours and expertise in order to sit for the certification exam. For those nurses who do not have a SANE mentor where they work, there are clinical courses that are sometimes offered at a site where the nurse can attend a 2-3 day hands on experience in order to learn how to conduct an exam.
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Mother Jones
Sometime after two a.m. in a dark exam room at the San Francisco General Hospital, a sexual assault nurse examiner turned on a handheld blacklight. Heather Marlowe looked down at her body. Her stomach and thighs were glowing. The nurse took swabs, and reassured her that when police analyzed her rape kit, they would have plenty of DNA to test. Marlowe felt dazed, in a state of shock. “You don’t really process that that was an indication that your life and body were used,” she says. “I just thought, OK, there’s ample saliva, there’s ample semen.”
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CNN
Health officials are raising alarm about a rise in STDs across the United States.
For the fifth consecutive year, combined cases of gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis have risen in the United States, according to a Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance Report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Managed Healthcare Executive
Social needs, including food, housing, utilities, transportation, and experience with interpersonal violence, are linked to health outcomes. Identifying patients with unmet social needs is a necessary first step to addressing them, yet little is known about the prevalence of screening. A recently published JAMA study investigates the prevalence of screenings by practices and hospitals.
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CDC
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed technical packages to help states and communities take advantage of the best available evidence to prevent violence. This new resource is designed to help states and communities leverage the best available evidence to prevent ACEs from happening in the first place as well as lessen harms when ACEs do occur. It features six strategies drawn from the CDC Technical Packages to Prevent Violence.
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NPR
A diversion program for victims of human trafficking is spreading to cities around the country. The model has roots in Columbus, Ohio, where a judge decided to direct women toward rehabilitation instead of jail.
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University of Chicago Medical Center via Medical Xpress
Exposure to violence can negatively impact a person's physical and psychosocial health, according to two new studies co-authored by University of Chicago Medicine social epidemiologist Elizabeth L. Tung, MD.
The studies were based on in-person surveys of more than 500 adults living in Chicago neighborhoods with high rates of violent crime, and in predominantly racial and ethnic minority groups. The results were published Oct. 7 in the October issue of the policy journal Health Affairs.
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Kaiser Health News
Legally and morally, hospitals cannot discharge patients if they have no safe place to go. So patients who are homeless, frail or live alone, or have unstable housing, can occupy hospital beds for weeks or months — long after their acute medical problem is resolved. For hospitals, it means losing money because a patient lingering in a bed without medical problems doesn’t generate much, if any, income. Meanwhile, acutely ill patients may wait days in the ER to be moved to a floor because a hospital’s beds are full.
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FierceHealthcare
What's the cost of violence on health systems?
In 2017 alone, 2.3 million emergency department visits and the 376,500 hospitalizations they spawned contributed to an estimated $8.7 billion in medical costs. Tack onto that the estimated $429 million cost from violence against healthcare workers—who experience the highest rates of violent workplace injuries—and you've got a costly problem.
That's according to a new report from Kaiser Permanente on the burden of violence on health systems, which offers a glimpse of the problem’s massive scope.
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MarketWatch
A massive study of daily air quality across nearly 400 U.S. counties finds a direct connection between dirtier air and higher rates of violent crime, including assault and domestic violence.
The effects show up even below current U.S. environmental standards, suggesting that further tightening those standards could reduce the level of crime and make people safer, according to the peer-reviewed study set to be published in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
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