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Forensic Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice
- Publication Year:
- 2017
- Edition:
- 2nd Ed.
- Author:
- ANA; IAFN
- Publisher:
- American Nurses Association, Inc
- ISBN:
- 978-1-55-810699-4
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Continuing and building on over 20 years of collaboration with ANA, IAFN assembled a team of forensic nursing experts to revise the previous edition. The result: the most current and comprehensive delineation of the practice and professional performance common to and expected of forensic RNs and APRNs.
Working at the intersections of multiple health and legal systems, the forensic nurse practices nationally and globally,providing specialized nursing care and treatment, which focuses on those affectedby violence and trauma, be they individuals, families, communities, or populations.
Among the topics covered:
Working at the intersections of multiple health and legal systems, the forensic nurse practices nationally and globally,providing specialized nursing care and treatment, which focuses on those affectedby violence and trauma, be they individuals, families, communities, or populations.
Among the topics covered:
- Forensic nursing’s roles and practice domains, such as sexual violence, intimate partner violence, medicolegal death investigation, and psychiatric–mental health and correctional settings
- Educational preparation for forensic nursing
- Applying the nine provisions of the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements in practice
- The wide array of forensic nursing skills
- Trends and issues, including interprofessional education, the challenges of digital technologies, the accessibility of forensic nursing services, and forensic nursing research
- The global reach and international contexts of forensic nursing pr
Details
- Platform:
- OvidSP
- Publisher:
- American Nurses Association, Inc
- Product Type:
- Book
- Author:
- ANA; IAFN
- ISBN:
- 978-1-55-810699-4
- Specialty:
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- General Interest Nursing
- Language:
- English
- Edition:
- 2nd Ed.
- Pages:
- 186
- Publication Year:
- 2017
- Doody Core Title Score:
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