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Imaging Technology News
Researchers are trying to identify injury patterns and predict future outcomes for victims of gun violence who are seen in the emergency room and later readmitted to the hospital, according to research being presented next week at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America. They found that patients who had gunshot injuries to the chest or abdomen were more likely to be readmitted to the hospital.
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Make your plans now to join us for our free, members-only Forensic Nursing Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C. Meet with members of Congress to advocate for issues that impact forensic nursing. Training is provided.
Our call for presenters will open in early January, but its not too early to begin planning your proposal. Conference tracks, session lengths, and additional details are online.
The Journal of Forensic Nursing is seeking original articles, review papers, and case reports that speak to the role of forensic nursing and forensic nurses in 2020, with particular interest in papers that represent the diversity of the specialty, and the unique contributions forensic nurses make in the care of individuals, families, and communities.
ProPublica
Susan Deveau saw Mark Papamechail’s online dating profile on PlentyofFish in late 2016. Scrolling through his pictures, she saw a 54-year-old man, balding and broad, dressed in a T-shirt. Papamechail lived near her home in a suburb of Boston and, like Deveau, was divorced. His dating app profile said he wanted “to find someone to marry.”
Deveau had used dating websites for years, but she told her adult daughter the men she met were “dorky.” She joked about how she could get “catfished” if a date looked nothing like his picture. Still Deveau, 53, wanted to grow old with someone. The two were — in the popular dating platform’s jargon — “matched.”
A background check would have revealed that Papamechail was a three-time convicted rapist.
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The Appeal
Last week, President Trump signed an executive order creating a task force on missing and murdered indigenous women. The task force, which will develop protocols for cases and create a team to review cold cases, will be overseen by Attorney General William Barr and Interior Secretary David Bernhardt. The task force announcement came a few days after Barr said the Justice Department will take steps to improve its response to missing persons cases.
Trump’s intervention is surprising, but as Rebecca Nagle noted in The Guardian, it took place against the backdrop of Senate Republicans trying to compromise one of the few positive developments in the federal government in addressing violence against Native women in recent years.
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CBS News
New York state lawmakers have introduced two bills that would prevent doctors from performing virginity exams. The move comes after rapper T.I. received considerable backlash following an interview in which he said he accompanies his daughter to the gynecologist to "check her hymen" is still intact, and a subsequent interview during which he attempted to clarify those remarks.
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MedPage Today
Suicide attempts involving firearms were far more likely to be fatal than attempts using other methods, according to an analysis of hospitalization data.
Of more than 3.6 million suicidal acts recorded in several U.S. government databases from 2007 to 2014, only 4.8 percent involved firearms, reported Andrew Conner, BS, of Quinnipiac University in North Haven, Connecticut, and colleagues.
But of those, 89.6 percent were fatal, they wrote in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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IOL
Victims of sexual and gender-based violence in the Kenyan capital Nairobi will be housed in safe houses and provided with guaranteed quality healthcare at subsidised rates if a proposed law is passed.
Should the Nairobi City County Sexual and Gender Based Violence Management and Control Bill be adopted, each of the wards will have at least one safe house, which will offer temporary stay to victims, provide healthcare and counselling services, as well as ensure access to an empowering environment and programmes appropriate to their individual developmental and therapeutic needs, the Standard reported.
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Nursing Times
The Scottish government has announced additional funding to develop nurse sexual offence examiners for the country, amid escalating numbers of reported sexual assaults.
The government-backed Forensic Medical Services Scotland Bill is proposing several changes to sexual offence health services, including giving £200,000 to promote forensic nurses.
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The Texas Tribune
Even though Texas' prison population shrank this decade, the publicly funded costs to treat inmates' medical conditions continue to rise.
The state spent over $750 million on prison health care during the 2019 fiscal year, a 53 percent increase from seven years earlier, when that cost was less than $500 million.
The main reason, according to experts and officials: an older, sicker prison population.
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MedPage Today
Antoinette Laskey MD, MPH, MBA writes, "I always knew I wanted to be a doctor. I also always knew working with children is what brought me the most joy. Finding the subspecialty of child abuse pediatrics was not something I had anticipated.
In medical school, I had the opportunity to work with a child abuse pediatrician when a child was brought in for medical care after being sexually assaulted. We examined the child, calmed the obviously distressed parent, and talked with the investigating detective and child protective services worker. Afterward, my clinical instructor sat down with me to help unpack what I'd learned."
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The Guardian
Half of all homeless people may have suffered a traumatic brain injury at some point in their life, according to new research – which experts say could be either a consequence or even the cause of their homelessness.
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