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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
List of contents
ContentsContributorsPrefacePart I OVERVIEW OF FORENSIC NURSING PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE1. History of Forensic NursingMeredith J. Scannell2. Medical Examiner InvestigatorMeredith J. Scannell3. Principles of Evidence Collection and PreservationMeredith J. Scannell4. Providing Testimony in Forensic CasesBarbara P. Madden5. Trauma-Informed Care: Treating the Whole PersonDiane L. MillerPart II ISSUES OF SEXUAL AND INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE6. Sexual AssaultMeredith J. Scannell7. Military Sexual TraumaMeredith J. Scannell8. Campus Sexual AssaultMeredith J. Scannell9. Interpersonal ViolenceMeredith J. Scannell and Patricia A. NormandinPart III AGE-RELATED VIOLENCE10. Child MaltreatmentKristine Ruggiero11. Elder MaltreatmentStacy Brady12. BullyingMeredith J. ScannellPart IV COMMUNITY AND GLOBAL VIOLENCE13. Community ViolenceMeredith J. Scannell14. StrangulationAndrea MacDonald15. Human TraffickingAndrea MacDonald16. Gunshot WoundsMeredith J. Scannell17. Acts of Terrorism: Healthcare in the Age of Modern TerrorismYaeko Marie Karantonis18. Mass DisastersCorrine Foster and George E. FloresIndex
About the author
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.
