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US pediatricians, psychiatrists declare 'emergency' in child mental health
HealthDAy News via U.S. News & World Report
Fear, grief, uncertainty and isolation during the pandemic have triggered a national state of emergency in the mental health of America's youth, leading child health care groups warned Oct. 19. Youngsters already faced significant mental health challenges, and the pandemic has made them worse, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Children's Hospital Association. Together, they represent more than 77,000 physicians and more than 200 children's hospitals.
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.FORENSIC NURSES UPDATES
Racism in the Workplace Survey
The National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing (the Commission) is conducting a national survey on Racism in Nursing in the Workplace. The purpose of this survey is to learn about the perceptions and lived experiences and to further understand the impact of racism on the nursing profession and patient outcomes. Take this brief survey today!
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Upcoming Webinars
A Silent Epidemic: Sexual Violence Against Men and Boys
October 28, 2:00-3:30 PM EST
Peer-to-Peer Information - Escaping Education: Educating non-SANE ED RNs to Care for Sexual Assault Patients Using an Escape Room Activity
November 4, 2:00-3:30 PM EST
Register Today!
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The IAFN2021 Virtual Conference Registration Has Been Extended!
Join us for this year's virtual conference, offering dozens of recorded sessions available in six tracks, plus poster sessions, keynotes, exhibitors, and more! Register by October 29. Complete the conference offerings on your own timeline from October 1 through November 30, 2021. New live sessions have been added! Register Today!
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Have You Thought About Expanding Your Role as a Forensic Nurse?
In celebration of Forensic Nurses Week, IAFN invites you to a panel discussion to explore a variety of forensic nursing subspecialties. Join us November 9, 4:00-6:00 PM EST, to learn more about the career opportunities available for forensic nurses. Register Today.
Subspecialties include:
- Education
- Death Investigation
- Child Abuse
- Elder Abuse
- Forensic Nurse Legal Consultant
- Intimate Partner Violence
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.INDUSTRY NEWS
Circles of impunity: Why sexual violence by humanitarians and peacekeepers keeps happening
The Conversation
Mukesh Kapila writes, "I first visited the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1994 during the genocide in neighboring Rwanda. In Goma’s emergency hospital, I witnessed rows and rows of rape survivors who had fled across the border.
A quarter-century later, it is hurting again in the same place, for the same reason: sexual violence. But what is different is that the alleged perpetrators are humanitarians, sent to save the community from a deadly Ebola outbreak. The humanitarian workers are said to have demanded sexual favors from women and girls trying to make a few dollars from low-level work in international agencies."
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Study discovers unique brain signature of intimate partner aggression
Virginia Commonwealth University via Medical Xpress
Why do people hurt the ones they claim to love? That question has driven researchers to discover much about the psychological and sociological predictors and consequences of intimate partner aggression. But an understanding of the neurobiological causes—or what happens in the brain—remains incomplete.
A new study led by Virginia Commonwealth University researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine the brain activity of 51 male-female romantic couples as they experienced intimate partner aggression in real time.
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State spending on poverty reduces child abuse, foster care placements, deaths
UPI
When states spend money on programs that reduce poverty, fewer children are abused and neglected, fewer end up in foster care and fewer die, a new study reveals.
Researchers found that for every additional $1,000 that states spent on federal, state and local benefit programs per person living in poverty, there was a four percent reduction in substantiated child abuse, a two percent reduction in foster care placements and about an eight percent reduction in fatalities.
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2016 to 2018 saw 181,227 TBI-related deaths in United States
HealthDay News
During 2016 to 2018, there were 181,227 traumatic brain injury-related deaths in the United States, representing 17.3 per 100,000 population per year, according to research published in the Oct. 15 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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Child suicides in Japan are at a record high
CNN
Suicides among Japanese schoolchildren hit a record high during the last school year, according to an education ministry report published Oct. 13.
Japan recorded 415 suicides among schoolchildren aged six to 18 during the 2020 school year — the highest number since records began in 1974.
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Challenges and lessons learned caring for diverse, vulnerable populations in the ER
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan via ScienceDaily
Interviews with two dozen emergency medicine residents in academic medical center found most placed importance on learning to deliver high-quality care to diverse populations. However, many did not feel their programs made enough effort to incorporate effective cultural competency education into the curriculum.
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Addressing gender identity biases in electronic health record systems
Yale School of Medicine
Sexual orientation and gender identity data collection policies are often put into place in healthcare settings without sufficient knowledge about meeting the needs of transgender patients, according to Clair Kronk, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in medical informatics. To address common biases in electronic health records systems, transgender researchers from institutions across the United States and Canada came together with Kronk as lead author to publish a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. The authors outlined their recommendations for improving EHR data representation in a way that improves transgender patients’ experience as well as gender-diverse research.
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Developing a training program on safeguarding children with disabilities
Nursing Times
Children and young people with disabilities and additional needs are more vulnerable to abuse but less likely to be identified and appropriately safeguarded than those who do not have a disability. There is emerging evidence that the pandemic has heightened this risk due to a lack of access to safe spaces, such as schools or nurseries, and trusted professionals. This article discusses the development of a 2018 training program on safeguarding for this group that has since been updated to reflect the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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