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Violence against women
Any act of gender based violence that results in or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of...
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Pain and Violence
When I first started nursing in the 80’s you really didn’t hear too much about pain assessment and management. It wasn’t until 2000 when Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health care Organizations...
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Forensic Nurses Helping Abused Women
Who doesn’t know someone that keeps going back to an abusive relationship? They wear you down with their drama and pain, but keep going back. They want to believe that the person they need to leave...
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Forensic Nurses Helping Abused, comment
The SANE nurse, for me, was always a godsend. As a male working nights with only one other RN on duty, it was a relief for me to be able to call in reinforcements. Not that I couldn’t or wouldn’t care...
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Women’s Health and Fertility Concerns
A few of these chapters brought back memories of my four-year experience with infertility some ten years ago. Keeping my follicular and luteal phase exactly on schedule before each of the seven...
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Death and birth control
Forensic nurses are regularly involved with examining the dead and helping to determine the cause of death. It can be important in the case of a deceased female to have a record of contraceptive use...
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Wife beating/Wife battering
Violence against women has been a long-standing problem and unfortunately been incorporated as an accepted practice in some cultures. The two terms are not interchangeable but are two separate concepts...
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