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Investigating forensic nursing.

Forensic nurses are making a positive impact in our society today. They are reaching out to aid victims of violence by not only attending to their injuries and emotional distress, but also by identifying, collecting, and preserving vital evidence that will be needed to assist their patients to seek justice through the legal system. Misinterpretation or failure to properly obtain evidence may result in a miscarriage of justice. Helping victims obtain validation of their injustice is crucial to their healing process and may be of critical importance in the effort to avoid further victimization. Forensic nurses work with victims of child abuse, elder abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault, and persons involved with violence or imminent death. This area includes psychiatric specialists who intervene not only with victims but also with perpetrators of violent and/or sexual acts.

Adult↗
PubMed2003

Psychological effects of violence on forensic nurses.

1. Forensic nurses frequently work in violent settings without regard for self-preservation to save the lives of injured individuals or investigate the deaths of deceased individuals. 2. Cases involving children and victims with disfiguring injuries, and incidents when their personal safety was compromised are most disturbing to forensic nurses. 3. Providing means for health care professionals to cope appropriately encourages healthy healing. 4. Forensic nurses must learn to self-assess and recognize the signs and symptoms associated with unhealthy coping, depression, or posttraumatic stress disorder.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed2005

[The introduction and inspiration to a sexual assault nurse examiner in forensic nursing].

A number of regulations concerning women and children have been introduced recently in Taiwan, and those regulations have improved the safety for women and children. But there remain problems as far as evidence gathering for medical and forensic purposes is concerned, giving rise to continuing difficulties in enforcing the regulations. Sexual assault nurse examiners (SANEs) perform one of several recognized forensic nursing roles. The position of SANE was developed to improve medical care for persons who have been sexually assaulted. The SANE education program combines the roles of nursing/medicine, law enforcement, prosecution, and advocacy to provide services involving both compassion and comprehensive medical-legal evaluation by a specially trained professional who has the experience to anticipate their needs during this time of crisis. This paper introduces SANEs in forensic nursing, discusses the way forensic nursing is conducted and introduces Taiwan's SANE training program for sexual assault victims.

Female↗
PubMed2000

Caring in forensic nursing. Expanding the holistic model.

Nurses have practiced forensic nursing for many years without formal recognition of the domain as a discipline for specialized study. Forensic nursing expands the traditional concept of holism to include the medical-legal aspects of potential or actual client problems. The American Nurses Association (ANA) and the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) recently have designated forensic nursing as a unique specialty. Recognition of forensic nursing as a specialty area of practice within nursing mandates that the specialty define and explicate its major conceptual base. A concept germane to the practice of forensic nursing is that of caring. Caring as a central concept to the role of this specialty is discussed, and the implications for its inclusion in a curriculum preparing forensic nurses are explored.

Crime Victims↗
PubMed1996

Developing a graduate forensic nursing elective.

The forensic nursing and trauma nursing courses can be presented as individual or complementary graduate courses. Knowledge of forensic principles enhances the nurse's assessment and documentation skills that can serve to support and substantiate his or her suspicions of criminal or abusive situations. Clearly, nurses educated in the forensic sciences can better serve the public who come to their agencies in search of help, compassion, and safety--and sometimes even justice.

Curriculum↗
PubMed1999

The role of the clinical forensic nurse in critical care.

Forensic nursing deals with the population of people whose lives have been affected by societal violence. The clinical forensic nurse (CFN) is seen as a means of coping with the resultant increased complexity of nursing practice, society, and the law. Critical care areas are clinical forensic domains where the CFN addresses the needs of living forensic patients through activities involving physical and non-physical evidence collection, crisis intervention, and documentation. Within a health care team, the CFN enhances patient care management, resulting in clinical service, legal order, and forensic protocol.

Clinical Competence↗
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Forensic nursing: a review of the literature.

A review of the nursing literature reveals that forensic nursing is an emergent specialty area of practice that has undergone substantive role development in recent years. Forensic nurses have not only begun to write about the challenging and distinctive nature of their practice and their unique practice arrangements, but have commenced a concerted call to action for greater recognition within the nursing profession and correction and criminal justice system. The literature reveals an increasing demand for forensic nursing skills in a range of community and hospital based clinical settings. The problematic nature of caring for forensic clients in both correctional and less restrictive contexts of care remains a salient feature of forensic nurses' accounts of their practice.

Clinical Competence↗
PubMed1996

Forensic nursing implications and the forensic autopsy.

1. Forensic challenges are faced by every nurse, and the bulk of these challenges are presented by living patients. 2. Because the nurse frequently is the first health care worker encountering living patients, successful arrest and prosecution of perpetrators of crime and violence may depend on the nurse's recognition of the problem and documentation. 3. Ignorance of problem detection and ignorance of what data and evidence to collect have resulted in the inability to prosecute, and perpetrators of abuse and violence are permitted to continue--and even escalate--their acts.

Adult↗
PubMed2005

Forensic nursing in Bolu, Turkey: a survey.

Forensic nursing is generally considered to be the application of the forensic aspect of health care combined with the bio-psychosocial education of the registered nurse in the scientific investigation and treatment of trauma and violence. In 1990 the term forensic nursing was established in the USA and has been developing in many countries as a subdivision of forensic sciences a nursing since. The first masters thesis with the subject of forensic nursing was written in 1997 at Istanbul University, Institute of Forensic Sciences. The aim of this survey is to outline the approach to forensic nursing by nurses in the province of Bolu, Turkey, and to determine the influence of education at undergraduate level and continuing education programs lectured in Istanbul. In this study, a questionnaire has been applied at random to clinical nurses and nursing educators, a total of 101 participants. 11 out of 18 questions, has also been compared with results acquired from Istanbul in 2002. The results were defined using SPSS and Primer statistics software. The results of this research revealed, that no formal training/education in clinical forensics has been received. It is suggested that formal education programs have to be developed at both, undergraduate and postgraduate levels, providing initial and continuing education.

Clinical Competence↗
PubMed1993

Forensic nursing. Diversity in education and practice.

Forensic nursing, as a professional discipline, originally defined its role as a medical examiner's investigator in the field of death investigation. However, with the evolution of a new area of clinical practice, the application of forensic science to nursing reveals a wider role in the investigation of crime and in the legal process. Forensic nursing, as a clinical subspecialty, fills a complementary role to clinical forensic medicine. As an emerging discipline, clinical forensic nursing recognizes that health care providers must assume a mutual responsibility with forensic scientists and the criminal justice system in concern for the survivor of violent crime and perpetrators of criminal acts. The registered nurse can be a great asset in the forensic sciences. Death has become a respectable field of inquiry, demanding answers to satisfy the public need and demand to determine the cause and manner of death. Nurses can bring empathy and compassion--as well as excellent observation, clinical, and communication skills--to death investigation.

Coroners and Medical Examiners↗
PubMed2001

Scope of practice issues in forensic nursing.

1. There is significant role variation, across the Western world, in relation to how forensic nurses practice. 2. The authors conducted a pilot survey of forensic nurses in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom to examine forensic nursing practice, role definition, and role boundaries. 3. Issues arising from the data include the visibility of forensic nurses, the client group, forensic-specific education, and role development.

Australia↗
PubMed1993

Forensic nurse specialists. Working with perpetrators and hostage negotiation teams.

1. A felony defendant's behavior and thinking prior to and during the commission of the crime are the primary focus of the relationship between the client and the psychiatric forensic nurse. 2. Psychiatric forensic nurses provide competency therapy, and train the defendants in courtroom behavior and how to assist their attorney. Therapy includes mock court-room activities, review of the contents of the police reports, and discussion of plea options. 3. Because the dimensions of practice identified overlap into criminal justice and law enforcement, psychiatric forensic nurses are a valuable resource to hostage negotiation teams.

Criminal Psychology↗
PubMed1994

A tiered healthcare system for persons in police custody--the use of a forensic nursing service.

In February 1992 the healthcare programme for persons held in police custody within the Melbourne metropolitan area was restructured. This was undertaken as a joint exercise between Police, the Health Department and the Office of Corrections as a response to the need to develop an efficient and cost effective healthcare delivery system. A tiered medical response was instituted, utilising a forensic nurse for the primary medical contact with forensic physicians providing medical consultation and support as necessary. Criteria were developed regarding the delineation of duties appropriate for the forensic nurse and for the forensic physician. The nurses were provided with transport, communication and basic medical supplies enabling a flexible response to requests for medical attention and for the nurse to perform triage, a basic medical assessment and administer appropriate treatment. Over the 15-month period since inception over 3000 consultations have been performed by the forensic nurses. The service has been commended by police, doctors working in the prison system, forensic physicians and community groups. A comprehensive review has demonstrated the efficiency and reliability of such a service. Costs in providing the service have not increased. We conclude that a forensic nursing service is of considerable benefit in complementing a range of services provided by forensic medical officers in a metropolitan setting.

Journal Article↗
PubMed1995

Clinical forensic nursing: a new perspective in the management of crime victims from trauma to trial.

Forensic nursing is one example of an innovative expansion of the role nurses will fill in the health care delivery system of the future. Because current policies of advocacy programs mandate the inclusion of criminal justice and health care providers, it is especially timely to propose that the forensic nursing specialist be placed in the trauma treatment environs to serve as a valuable link in interagency cooperation, ensuring that human needs and medicolegal interests are served. Because most emergency personnel and prehospital care providers ordinarily have only secondary interests in forensic matters, the motivated and skilled forensic nurse can serve as an invaluable resource for the criminal justice system, the hospital, and the patient.

Crime↗