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Forensic Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice
- Publication Year:
- 2017
- Edition:
- 2nd
- Author:
- ANA; IAFN
- Publisher:
- American Nurses Association, Inc
- ISBN:
- 978-1-55-810699-4
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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 nursingโs roles and practice domains, such as sexual violence, intimate partner violence, medicolegal death investigation, and psychiatricโmental 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 practice
Updated competencies lend specificity to the publicationโs 19 standards statements. Each standardโs set of competencies can be evidence of compliance with that standard. As a whole, these competencies can frame the evaluation of practice outcomes and goals of forensic nurses and delineate what is expected of their practice by their healthcare peers and others. Its scope of practiceโthe what, how, where, when, who, and why of their practiceโis the context for applying these standards.
Forensic Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, 2nd Edition covers the full extent of forensic nursing practice at all levels and in all settings and roles. It is a must-have for both the practicing and aspiring forensic nurse and a useful resource for allied interprofessional practitioners and stakeholders.
- 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
- Pages:
- 186
- Publication Year:
- 2017
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