Fast Facts About Forensic Nursing
Springer Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8261-3866-8 (ISBN)
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Helps nurses to enhance their forensic skills and apply them to their practice in all settings
This is a succinct yet comprehensive guide to the rapidly expanding specialty of forensics nursing. Exploring the forensic nurse’s role in the gamut of patient care settings, the book is distinguished by its easy-to-read content comprised of bulleted lists, tables, and figures; short chapters; and convenient pocket size. This up-to-date, evidence-based resource addresses all facets of forensics nursing, including legal and ethical issues, conducting interviews, trauma-informed care, delivering expert testimony, documenting injuries, and collecting and preserving evidentiary substances for Medico-Legal purposes.
The book encompasses the wide range of injury and assault cases requiring the collection of forensic evidence in preparation for a legal case. This includes different types of sexual assault and violence, child maltreatment, elder maltreatment, bullying, interpersonal violence, gunshot wounds, community violence, human trafficking, terrorist acts, and mass disasters. With supporting case scenarios, the book describes step-by-step how to collect evidence and the proper procedure for handing over evidence once it is collected. Also included are verbatim descriptions of actual experiences forensic nurses have had while testifying.
Key Features:
Delivers broad content related to forensic nursing in easy-access Fast Facts style
Helps users to retrieve information at a moment’s notice with short chapters, bulleted lists, tables, and figures, all packaged in a portable, pocket size
Examines the forensic nurse’s role in all patient care settings
Explores the legalities and ethics surrounding provision of health care to and collecting evidence from patients injured due to criminal activity.
Covers the range of injury and assault cases requiring the collection of forensic evidence in preparation for a legal case
Meredith J. Scannell, PhD, MSN, MPH, CNM, SANE-A, CEN, is currently an assistant professor at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Institute of Health Professions and a staff nurse in the Center for Clinical Investigation and the Emergency Department at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
Contents
Contributors
Preface
Part I OVERVIEW OF FORENSIC NURSING PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE
1. History of Forensic Nursing
Meredith J. Scannell
2. Medical Examiner Investigator
Meredith J. Scannell
3. Principles of Evidence Collection and Preservation
Meredith J. Scannell
4. Providing Testimony in Forensic Cases
Barbara P. Madden
5. Trauma-Informed Care: Treating the Whole Person
Diane L. Miller
Part II ISSUES OF SEXUAL AND INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE
6. Sexual Assault
Meredith J. Scannell
7. Military Sexual Trauma
Meredith J. Scannell
8. Campus Sexual Assault
Meredith J. Scannell
9. Interpersonal Violence
Meredith J. Scannell and Patricia A. Normandin
Part III AGE-RELATED VIOLENCE
10. Child Maltreatment
Kristine Ruggiero
11. Elder Maltreatment
Stacy Brady
12. Bullying
Meredith J. Scannell
Part IV COMMUNITY AND GLOBAL VIOLENCE
13. Community Violence
Meredith J. Scannell
14. Strangulation
Andrea MacDonald
15. Human Trafficking
Andrea MacDonald
16. Gunshot Wounds
Meredith J. Scannell
17. Acts of Terrorism: Healthcare in the Age of Modern Terrorism
Yaeko Marie Karantonis
18. Mass Disasters
Corrine Foster and George E. Flores
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.01.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Fast Facts |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 127 x 203 mm |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Fachpflege |
| Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Rechtsmedizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8261-3866-7 / 0826138667 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8261-3866-8 / 9780826138668 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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