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 Marking 10 years and counting, Forensic Nurses Week is designated to recognize YOU, the dedicated nurses who provide exceptional care to patients impacted by violence, abuse, and trauma. Why do you love being a forensic nurse? Share your story on our Facebook thread or in the Member Community.
2019 has been a great year for our members and chapters – and its not over yet! Check out our summary of year-to-date accomplishments.
There are so many courses, programs, and educational opportunities to choose from, and each offers something different. A certificate and a certification sound a lot alike, but they differ in significant ways. Learn More.
The IAFN Foundation is accepting applications for Conference scholarships through November 15.
Virginity testing has been a hot topic in the news this week. IAFN’s CEO, Jennifer Pierce-Weeks, spoke to the UK's Daily Mail, explaining "You cannot examine someone and unequivocally determine whether or not sex has been taking place." The Daily Mail shared this video (from Swedish TV4 News) explaining myths around virginity and hymens.
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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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Medpage Today
Some healthcare professionals see blood, mangled bodies, and death every day, yet certain days are worse than others -- like when a dozen police officers are gunned down or 20 kids are killed in their elementary school. As public mass shootings happen nearly every six weeks in America, these tragedies are having a more frequent impact on the healthcare workforce.
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CNN
For the first time in 19 years, a team of scientists has detected a new strain of HIV.
The strain is a part of the Group M version of HIV-1, the same family of virus subtypes to blame for the global HIV pandemic, according to Abbott Laboratories, which conducted the research along with the University of Missouri, Kansas City. The findings were published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.
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The Telegraph
Google has been collecting the personal healthcare information of millions of Americans in a previously unknown scheme called Project Nightingale.
The technology giant teamed up with Ascension, the second largest healthcare provider in the United States, and has been gathering the data of patients in 21 states since last year.
It appeared to be the most aggressive move yet by a technology company to move into the healthcare industry, raising privacy concerns about how the data would be handled.
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Sanford School of Public Policy
Family Connects, a program in which nurses conduct home visits for newborns and their families, is linked to substantial reductions in child maltreatment investigations in children’s earliest years, according to new research from Duke University.
Program participants had 44 percent lower rates of child maltreatment investigations during children’s first 24 months of life, compared with parents who did not receive the program, researchers found.
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BioMed Central via Medical Xpress
Children who experience maltreatment, such as neglect or physical or sexual abuse, are more likely to engage in delinquent and offending behaviors in adolescence and young adulthood, according to a study published in the open access journal BMC Public Health.
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Cranfield University via PhysOrg
Researchers at Cranfield University are using blowflies and other insects to develop a database which will provide a complementary method of estimating time since death in forensic investigations.
The database—thought to be the first of its kind in the world—uses chemical profiles from the waxy coating on the outside of insects and will provide a library for forensic entomologists to refer to when investigating cases.
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Hakai Magazine
In 2012, Paolo Magni, a forensic biologist, then a doctoral student at the University of Turin, Italy, was approached by a forensic pathologist with a mystery. A highly decomposed body had been found on Italy’s southwest coast. The pathologist had few clues on how long the John Doe had been in the water, but there was one lead to chase: the dead man’s pants and shoes were encrusted with barnacles.
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Oxford University Press via Medical Xpress
Women who are experiencing intimate partner violence feel better supported, more confident, and less depressed when trained family doctors counsel them, according to new research in the journal Family Practice.
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ReliefWeb
In north-eastern Nigeria, the World Health Organization is working with government to expand and improve services offered to survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.
One of the many consequences of the conflict and insecurity that have ridden north-eastern Nigeria for the past decade is a surge in SGBV. More than 6,500 women and girls were identified as survivors of SGBV.
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