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AMN Healthcare
The AMN 2019 Survey of Registered Nurses reveals growing pressures on the millions of nurses who provide hands-on care and other services to Americans every day.
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Forensic Nurses Week may be over, but we want to stay in touch year-round! Open your member profile and update your information. Add a photo, list your credentials, update your practice area. Why? The information you provide in your bio is used to connect you with other members and with information relevant to your practice. Update your info today so we don't miss you when we search for intimate partner violence, death investigation, or other specific roles and areas of interest. How? Sign in & click "manage profile" or select My Profile at the top of our website and then "manage profile" on the right side.
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.
70% of ED nurses in the U.S. report being hit or kicked on the job. This is not OK! Ask your lawmaker to help. Read more about the proposed legislation.
Iowa: Iowa's future rape kit tracking system could help empower survivors
Minnesota: Minneapolis police admit to discovering 1,500 untested rape kits, spanning over 30 years, found in storage
Nevada: Clearing the cases: Nevada's sexual assault kit backlog creating a new backup
UN
Starting on this year's International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (25 November), and for the next two years, the UN Secretary-General’s UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign, a multi-year effort aimed at preventing and eliminating violence against women and girls, will focus on the issue of rape as a specific form of harm committed against women and girls in times of peace or war.
The 2019 theme for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women is "Orange the World: Generation Equality Stands Against Rape." Like in previous years, this year's International Day will mark the launch of 16 days of activism that will conclude on 10 December 2019, which is International Human Rights Day.
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Military Times
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the federal government’s case against a military court ruling that reversed several military rape convictions for crimes committed more than a decade or two ago.
The controversial decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, based on previous court decisions, placed a five-year time limit on prosecuting crimes of rape that occurred between 1986 and 2006.
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The Intercept
Carmen Castelló used to use the term “seguimiento de casos,” or case tracking, when she worked as a social worker managing client caseloads. Now it’s the name of the Facebook page she uses to track cases of murdered and disappeared women in Puerto Rico, information that became key to building the first-ever database of femicides on the island.
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Science Magazine
For the first time, a state judge has forced a public genealogy site, GEDmatch, to allow police to search its entire database of DNA profiles. A detective wanted to find distant relatives of a serial rapist in hopes that their family trees could help him home in on a suspect—even though most of the 1.3 million people who have shared their DNA data with the site haven’t agreed to such a search.
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University of Toronto via Medical Xpress
Most research on child sexual-abuse survivors focuses on negative consequences such as depression and suicide. A new study instead examines factors associated with resilience and flourishing among adult survivors.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
Gunshot wounds cause most survivors lasting harm that goes beyond what bullets do to their bodies, according to a new Penn study.
The study, which looked at almost 200 adult survivors of gun violence in Philadelphia, found that nearly half screened positive for likely post traumatic stress disorder several years after they were shot, and many had higher rates of unemployment and drug or alcohol use than before they were injured.
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EuroNews
France has been urged by the Council of Europe to review its criminal law response to rape.
In a new report analyzing the country's implementation of an international convention on violence against women — the Istanbul Convention — experts found insufficiencies in the French system.
The report critiques the judicial practice of bringing cases to correctional court, making it possible to reclassify rape as sexual assault.
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University of California - Berkeley via Medical Xpress
Teen girls in South Africa face an extraordinary threat of HIV: By the time they reach adulthood, one in four South African girls will have contracted the virus, and most are first infected during adolescence.
Experiencing depression puts these girls at even higher risk of HIV infection, reveals analyses led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and based on a longitudinal study led by colleagues at the University of North Carolina and the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
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