Forensic Nursing presents the personal experiences and perspectives of forensic nurses that work in all areas of forensic and critical care/emergency practice.

Features:

• Draws on case studies to illustrate the role of forensic nurses in the medico-legal process
• Documents the significance of forensic nursing in the investigation of certain crimes, such as sexual assault, interpersonal violence, and healthcare serial killers
• Shows how the techniques of forensic observation can be a critical part of the nursing profession

Contents

• Introduction to Forensic Nursing
• Who Needs a Forensic Nurse?
• Introduction to Forensic Nursing
• Clinical Forensic Medicine and "Living Forensics"
• The Development of the Forensic Antenna and Cultivation of the
• Index of Suspicion
• Investigation of Suspicious Injury/Death
• Investigating Undiagnosed Trauma
• A New Nursing Specialty Emerges
• Forensic Nursing as Part of the Nursing Process
• The Nursing Process
• The Forensic Nursing Scope of Practice
• The Scientific Method
• Forensic Nursing Science: A Logical Next Step?
• The Mandate for Forensic Nursing
• The Scope of the Problem: 2002 and 2004 Crime Reports
• The Response to Violence by the Joint Commission on the
• Accreditation of Healthcare Organization
• The Response to Violence by the Public Health Community
• Is There a Forensic Nurse in the House?
• Forensic Issues in the Clinical Setting
• The Emergency Department as the Forensic Portal of Healthcare
• Presentation of Specific Forensic Cases in the ED
• The Forensic Nursing Response
• Sudden, Suspicious, or Unexpected Death in the Healthcare
• Environment
• Healthcare Serial Killers
• Quality Improvement and Risk Management
• Violence in the Healthcare Environment
• Forensic Nurses' Medico-Legal Skill Sets: Observation, Documentation, Photography, and Evidence Collection
• The Importance of Medico-Legal Skill Sets
• Documentation in the Medical Record
• How Healthcare Providers Can Improve Their Documentation
• Skills
• Forensic Photography
• Evidence Collection
• Sexual Assault
• Sexual Violence is a Global Problem
• Sexual Assault Hits Closer to Home: The Domestic Problem
• Sexual Violence: Definitions, Prevalence, Characteristics
• Health-Related Consequences of Sexual Violence
• Victims' Utilization of Medical Services
• The Healthcare Response to Sexual Violence
• The Cost of Sexual Assault
• Quality-of-Care Issues
• The Medico-legal Examination Environment
• Genital Injuries in Sexual Assault Victims
• Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault
• A National Protocol for Handling Sexual Assault Cases
• Interpersonal Violence
• The Scope of the Problem
• Domestic Violence in Urban vs. Rural Settings
• The Healthcare System's Response to Interpersonal Violence
• Healthcare Providers' Role in Interpersonal Violence Cases
• The Mental and Physical Impacts of IPV
• Domestic Violence Cases: The Emergency Department Portal
• The Scope of Partner Violence
• A National Consensus on Domestic Violence
• The Family Justice Center Concept
• Vulnerable Populations
• Violence Against Disabled Individuals
• Violence Against Men
• Violence Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
• Individuals
• Violence Against Elders
• Violence Against Children
• Sexual Violence in the Military
• Department of Justice Recommendations
• Sexual Assault and Abuse in the Military
• Looking to the Future
• Sexual Violence in the U.S. Military: A Review of the Literature
• Sexual Violence on Campus
• Forensic Psychiatric Nursing and Corrections Nursing
• Balancing the Demands of Care and Custody in an "Invisible"
• Nursing Specialty
• The United Kingdom Experience
• Forensic Psychiatric Nursing: A Review of the Literature
• The Care and Feeding of Forensic Psychiatric Nurses
• One Nurse's Story
• The Human Psyche and the Forensic Psychiatric Nurse
• Victimology and Profiling: Is it in a Forensic Nurse's Purview?
• Psychiatric Nursing in the Correctional Setting
• Nurses and Correctional Officers: An Interdisciplinary Approach
• Corrections Nursing
• Special Issues: Women in Prison
• Special Issues: Sexual Coercion of Women in Prison
• Special Issues: Victims of Prison Rape
• A Career With Cross-over Appeal: Corrections Nursing and
• Medico-legal Death Investigation
• Medico-Legal Death Investigation
• Making the Transition From the Living to the Dead
• Applying a Nurse's Skill Sets to Death Investigation
• Understanding the Cause, Manner and Mechanism of Death
• Mechanism of Injuries and Wound Identification
• Post-Mortem Changes
• Crime Scene Investigation
• Death Investigation: The Process
• Nurses' Contributions to Death Investigation
• Medical Examiners and Coroners: Context for the Forensic
• Nurse Examiner
• Nurses as Coroners
• Nurses as Medical Examiners
• Nurses as Death Investigators and Law Enforcement Officers
• Forensic Nurses and DMORT Duty
• Integrating Clinical Practice and Death Investigation
• Legal Nurse Consulting and Nursing Jurisprudence
• The Legal Nurse Consultant
• The Tales of Two LNCs
• The Scope of Practice of LNCs
• The LNC and the Medical Record
• The LNC and Forensic Cases
• The Forensic Nurse Goes to Court
• Forensic Nurses and Expert Testimony
• Preparation for Trial and Professional Conduct in the Courtroom
• The Future of Legal Nurse Consulting and Nursing
• Jurisprudence
• DNA Evidence and Medico-Legal Issues
• DNA Evidence Collection
• DNA Evidence Policy Considerations
• John Doe Cases
• Harnessing the Power of DNA
• Addressing the DNA Backlog
• Making a Case for DNA
• The Justice for All Act of 2004
• Debbie's Smith's Story
• The Provisions of the Justice for All Act of 2004
• The Rest of the Story
• The Beleaguered Forensic Laboratory
• Forensic Laboratories Partner With Forensic Nurses
• Issues of Consent and DNA Evidence
• Professional Issues: Forensic Nursing Education and Training
• The Current State of Healthcare Education and Training
• Forensic Nurses Speak Out on Their Education and Training Needs
• Core Competencies and a Core Curriculum for Forensic Nursing
• Opportunities for Education and Training
• Professional Issues: Forensic Nurses as Entrepreneurs
• The SANE
• The Legal Nurse Consultant
• The Educator

Index

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