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 Display the Forensic Nurses Day flyer in your facilitiy’s public areas and work stations. Remind everyone that Friday, Nov. 13, 2015, is Forensic Nurses Day!
On behalf of the Association, the Board recognizes the commitment, dedication, and passion of all forensic nursing professionals who provide expert, compassionate, and patient-centered care. We commend you.
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IAFN's online pediatric/adolescent Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) didactic training program is now available. This course is geared toward the Registered Nurse or Advanced Practice Registered Nurse planning on practicing as a Pediatric SANE. This course meets the IAFN SANE Education Guidelines and provides 43 contact hours in nursing upon completion. Learn more and register today!
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As you may know, I am the IAFN representative to the Consortium of Forensic Sciences (CFSO). Formed in 2000, CFSO is an association of six forensic science professional organizations: American Academy of Forensic Sciences; American Society of Crime Lab Directors; International Association for Identification; International Association of Forensic Nurses; National Association of Medical Examiners; and Society of Forensic Toxicologists - American Board of Forensic Toxicology.
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Your contact hours will be calculated automatically, based on the sessions you attend and evaluate. After evaluating ALL the sessions you attended during the entire Conference, simply print and retain your CE certificate for future reference.
The online evaluation site closes on Dec. 1, 2015, at 11:59 pm EDT. After this time, CE certificates will no longer be available. Evaluate today.
Presenter and Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Carrie Fringer discusses her own personal experience with violence and its impact on her role as SANE.
Course Objectives: Identify how a personal history of victimization can impact one’s role as a SANE and describe how trauma affects the body and mind. Explore PTSD, psychotherapy options, and how to use this knowledge when caring for sexual assault victims. Discuss vicarious trauma and the importance of self-care for SANEs.
0.75 CE | Free to Members | $10 for Nonmembers |
Register today!
Happy Forensic Nurses Week. Use discount code FNWEEK15 to save 10% at the IAFN Marketplace. Now through Nov. 13. Learn more.
We are currently seeking volunteers for our 2016 Conference Planning Committee. Your Association relies on you, its Volunteers, to partner with staff to accomplish the mission and goals together. Your unique skills are sure to be of great benefit to the many volunteer positions available.
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PrecentConnect
This “Ignite Talk” presented by Katherine Gasiorowski of theIndiana Coalition Against Violence and Domestic Assault explained how to “stop worrying and love the community needs assessment,” to support local RPE programs in discovering their communities’ paths to preventing sexual violence.
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ANA
You don’t have to work in an Emergency Department to come in contact with a human trafficked victim. All nurses should know what to look for and how to intervene when confronted with or suspecting that someone is being trafficked. Nurses are often the trafficking victim’s first contact and your intervention might save a life.
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By Keith Carlson
 There are many types of nurse leaders within the nursing ecosystem, and leadership styles can vary widely. For nurse leaders seeking to offer a balanced style of leadership that meets a wide variety of demands, consider both the left- and right-brain aspects of leadership. The whole-brained nurse leader believes emotional wellness is crucial and also bears in mind that policies and procedures must be followed in order to maintain a highly functioning work environment.
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Futures Without Violence
Join this webinar to hear key steps and strategies for how to help clients enroll in healthcare and understand the domestic violence provisions in the Affordable Care Act.
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Aljazeera America
Ask Victor Lopez, a 17-year-old transgender male, what it was like when he got his period at the age of 8, and he’ll tell you a wrenching story about locking himself in his room for hours, crying and hiding from his family. Just getting out of bed for school was a struggle. The onset of menarche made him feel disgusting and terrified, as though his body had dragged him through someone else’s puberty, he says, and there was nothing he could do to stop it.
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The New Yorker
There is an outcry in the United States that we’re facing an urgent nurse deficit that threatens the safety of individual patients and the nation’s health as a whole. Consider arguments from two Times editorials. “The nationwide shortage of nurses is likely to reach crisis proportions ... There is not much chance for permanent relief until the nursing profession is made more attractive to young people through better salaries, working conditions and public recognition,” one reads.
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PreventConnect
This Ignite Talk presented by Jen Przewoznik, from the North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault, highlighted two youth-led projects in North Carolina that act as community level interventions to change school climate. Youth Against Rape Culture (YARC) and Queer Straight Alliances (QSAs) are strategies utilized by two distinct RPE grantees in North Carolina to affect building level climate change by supporting youth to claim power within their social environments.
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Independent Record
The contributing factors seem to crescendo.
Often kids in the program began as victims of neglect. They are likely subject to physical violence or sexual abuse. Their young eyes are likely to witness domestic violence, substance abuse or both.
Maybe they had to fill in for a parent as an elementary student or teen.
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ACLU
Imagine that you were just assaulted and needed emergency assistance from the police. But instead of responding with care and concern, the police reacted with hostility, shamed you for seeking help, and expressed disinterest in your safety or in investigating your case. This is too often the reality for the too many victims of sexual assault and domestic violence every year in the United States.
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USA Today
Silvestre Segovia had vowed many times over that he would never return to solitary confinement.
Languishing in the vast Texas prison system's solitary confinement wings for more than a decade had exacted a heavy emotional toll. And there was so much to discover about a new world that confronted him on a much-anticipated exit that chilly morning, Nov. 15, 2002. A loyal girlfriend waited 255 miles away.
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Becker's Hospital Review
Working to keep up with its growing Atlanta market, Northside Hospital has acquired physician practices and other healthcare outpatient facilities within Georgia. The acquisitions resulted in more patients coming in from referrals — as well as an increased amount of individual physician practices in need of additional staffing.
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