The increase is attributable to the system's two year old Mobile Forensic Nursing Unit program that, since established, has brought the amount of treated sexual assault cases up from five and six a ...

If you watch “CSI” shows, you know what forensic nurses do. In addition to dealing with the emotional trauma of patients who are crime victims, they collect evidence. “I define forensic nursing as ...

FLORENCE, S.C. (WMBF) - In the Pee Dee, McLeod Health’s Forensic Nurse Examiner program has seen 9 sexual assault cases in as many days so far in 2023. This comes as the program marks one year of ...

EVERETT — When Zadki Avila was seeking support while experiencing domestic violence, she turned to the Providence Intervention Center for Assault and Abuse. There, staff members helped her go through ...

Professor Patricia M. Speck, DNSc, APRN, FNP-BC, DFIAFN, FAAFS, FAAN, has been named the 2015 Ann Burgess Forensic Nursing Research Award winner by the International Association of Forensic Nurses.

In nursing school, Norah Lusk already knew she wanted to work with sexual assault survivors. She had seen how this part of the health care system was “sorely lacking” through victim-blaming, long wait ...

For nurses looking for a new way to work in nursing, forensic nursing is a unique role that has a lot to offer. Described by the International Association of Forensic Nurses as the “practice of ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- In instances of sexual assault, child, or elder abuse, evidence can make or break a case. When the evidence is on a victim's body, forensic nurses have the special training to gather ...

The Texas A&M College of Nursing’s forensic nursing program has been elevated to center status, allowing for a larger graduate program and the opportunity to make more courses available to allies such ...

If an adult is sexually assaulted in the District, one group of specially trained nurses is called upon to perform a forensic exam should the survivor wish to receive one. And sexual assault occurs ...