{"title":"The Use of Nonfamily Chaperones for the Medical Forensic Examination: International Association of Forensic Nurses' Position Statement.","authors":"","doi":"10.1097/JFN.0000000000000526","DOIUrl":"10.1097/JFN.0000000000000526","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94079,"journal":{"name":"Journal of forensic nursing","volume":" ","pages":"E22-E24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142775921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Factors Influencing the Personal Recovery of Inpatients in a Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in South Korea.","authors":"Moonhee Gang, Donghyeon Gwak","doi":"10.1097/JFN.0000000000000492","DOIUrl":"10.1097/JFN.0000000000000492","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study aimed to identify the factors influencing the personal recovery of inpatients of a forensic psychiatric hospital.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A descriptive study design was assigned. The participants were 136 inpatients in a forensic psychiatric hospital in South Korea. The data were analyzed using SPSS Statistics Version 26.0 with descriptive statistics, independent t test, analysis of variance, Pearson correlation coefficient, and multiple regression.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Perceived physical health status (β = 0.16, p = 0.034), perceived mental health status (β = 0.20, p = 0.023), perceived family support (β = 0.17, p = 0.013), duration of hospitalization (β = 0.25, p < 0.001), and recovery attitudes (β = 0.36, p < 0.001) were the significant factors explaining 42.6% of the variance in the personal recovery of participants.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The findings of this study indicate that recovery attitudes, health status, and personal support affect forensic mental health personal recovery. Personal recovery can be strengthened through nursing intervention and support to strengthen recovery attitudes and health status. It is necessary to get used to personal recovery through long-term and systematic education, and organizations and nurses need to make efforts to provide services centered on personal recovery.</p>","PeriodicalId":94079,"journal":{"name":"Journal of forensic nursing","volume":" ","pages":"56-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141422212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gordon Lee Gillespie, Sherry Steele Cooper, Scott A Bresler, Sara Tamsukhin
{"title":"Emergency Department Workers' Perceived Support and Emotional Impact After Workplace Violence.","authors":"Gordon Lee Gillespie, Sherry Steele Cooper, Scott A Bresler, Sara Tamsukhin","doi":"10.1097/JFN.0000000000000510","DOIUrl":"10.1097/JFN.0000000000000510","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Workplace violence (WPV) is a common experience among healthcare workers in the United States. Although WPV may affect workers physically, WPV can also affect workers' mental health. Emergency department (ED) workers' perceptions of available and necessary WPV support have not been previously reported.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A cross-sectional survey design was used to examine ED workers' perceived level of WPV support and emotional impact that WPV causes them. This study was conducted at six Midwestern U.S. EDs. Respondents confidentially completed an adapted version of the Survey of Violence Experienced by Staff. Data analysis included descriptive statistics, t test, and Kruskal-Wallis test.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Respondents ( N = 206) who experienced WPV served as the analytical sample. Respondents predominantly agreed or strongly agreed that support was available after WPV ( n = 129, 63.2%). The predominant source of support after WPV was another colleague from the department ( n = 127, 62.3%). Less than half of respondents ( n = 96, 47.1%) indicated they agreed/strongly agreed that managers were supportive after verbal abuse, but 63.6% ( n = 126) indicated that managers were supportive after physical assault. There was no statistical difference between the emotional impact of verbal abuse compared with threats/assaults.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Forensic nurses and emergency nurses with forensic nursing training are situated to combine their expertise in trauma-informed care, evidence collection, and expert testimony to support victimized ED workers. Timely support should be offered regardless of the category of WPV experienced. Insight into why support is perceived as available and accessible but may not be used warrants further study.</p>","PeriodicalId":94079,"journal":{"name":"Journal of forensic nursing","volume":" ","pages":"12-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12121692/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142515389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forensic Nursing in the Emergency Care Setting: Joint Position Statement.","authors":"Joanne E Navarroli","doi":"10.1097/JFN.0000000000000485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/JFN.0000000000000485","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94079,"journal":{"name":"Journal of forensic nursing","volume":"21 1","pages":"E18-E21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143417125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gleicy Karine Nascimento de Araújo Monteiro, Renata Clemente Dos Santos, Wesley Ferreira de Moraes Brandão, Gabriela Maria Cavalcanti Costa, Ana Maria de Almeida, Rafaella Queiroga Souto
{"title":"Factors Associated With Elder Abuse According to the Levels of Social Determinants in Brazil.","authors":"Gleicy Karine Nascimento de Araújo Monteiro, Renata Clemente Dos Santos, Wesley Ferreira de Moraes Brandão, Gabriela Maria Cavalcanti Costa, Ana Maria de Almeida, Rafaella Queiroga Souto","doi":"10.1097/JFN.0000000000000501","DOIUrl":"10.1097/JFN.0000000000000501","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The aim of this study was to analyze the factors associated with elder abuse according to the levels of social determinants.</p><p><strong>Methodology: </strong>This is a quantitative and multicentric study, with a cross-sectional cut. It was developed in two teaching hospitals in Paraíba, Brazil, with 323 older adults, from July 2019 to February 2020. Data were collected using the Hwalek-Sengstock Elder Abuse Screening Test and Conflict Tactics Scale-1 and then analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There was a significant association between risk for violence and female gender ( p = 0.004), residing with grandchildren ( p = 0.025), and having four or more comorbidities ( p < 0.00). Physical violence was associated with income ( p = 0.048). A positive correlation was observed between the number of comorbidities and the risk for violence score ( p < 0.001), psychological violence ( p = 0.004), and physical violence ( p = 0.005). The probability of presenting a risk to violence increased by 2.08 times for women, 1.03 times for those who were illiterate, and 7.03 times for those with four or more comorbidities.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The social determinants of health that integrate the macrosystem, such as income and number of comorbidities, correlate with situations of violence.</p>","PeriodicalId":94079,"journal":{"name":"Journal of forensic nursing","volume":" ","pages":"19-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142134923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sandrine Vallée-Ouimet, Pierre Pariseau-Legault, Lisandre Labrecque-Lebeau
{"title":"When Sexual Violence Goes Viral: A Literature Review and Synthesis on How the Popularization of the #MeToo Movement Contributed to the Recent Evolution of Nursing Practice With the Student Population in Quebec (Canada).","authors":"Sandrine Vallée-Ouimet, Pierre Pariseau-Legault, Lisandre Labrecque-Lebeau","doi":"10.1097/JFN.0000000000000498","DOIUrl":"10.1097/JFN.0000000000000498","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Since the popularization of the #MeToo movement, the prevention and management of sexual violence (SV) has become prominent in North American public discourse, including in the province of Québec (Canada). Despite such an important visibility in the public sphere, there is little scientific evidence of how nursing practice has adapted to the popularization of the #MeToo movement, led by victims of SV. Drawing on critical feminist theories, we describe the results from a literature review on nursing practice in the context of SV on college and university campuses since the #MeToo movement. A literature search was performed in five databases using keywords targeting nursing practice in the context of SV. In total, 45 articles were selected for analysis. Eight studies were added for their relevance (obtained outside the databases). Next, a reflexive thematic analysis inspired by Braun and Clarke (2006) was conducted. The literature review was then used to compare current practices in Québec. The results identify the persistence of numerous myths and stereotypes that contribute negatively to the credibility of persons experiencing SV. The results also describe the difficulty of public institutions to change structures aimed at preventing and managing SV in response to the popularization of the #MeToo movement. The results indicate the relevance of using an intersectional feminist theoretical framework to better understand the complexities of SV. Through our analysis, we show that, more than ever, the evolution of forensic nursing practice must be informed by political and testimonial activism driven by persons experiencing SV.</p>","PeriodicalId":94079,"journal":{"name":"Journal of forensic nursing","volume":" ","pages":"E6-E14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141989833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Diana Rose Caporiccio, Arlene Kent-Wilkinson, Cindy Peternelj-Taylor
{"title":"A Canadian Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner's Personal Reflection and Ongoing Questioning of Vicarious Trauma.","authors":"Diana Rose Caporiccio, Arlene Kent-Wilkinson, Cindy Peternelj-Taylor","doi":"10.1097/JFN.0000000000000518","DOIUrl":"10.1097/JFN.0000000000000518","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The objective of this article was to provide a first-person account of the vulnerable aspects of my life where I questioned if VT had influenced my thought processes and to uncover the potential health risks associated with exposure to patients' repeated stories of trauma. I questioned whether I was experiencing VT or other disorders such as burnout, posttraumatic stress disorder, or compassion fatigue. The scholarly literature was reviewed after my personal reflection to analyze my personal experiences and to gain clarity on how VT and/or other related concepts may impact the professional and personal lives of SANEs.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Methods used to produce my personal stories have been done via self-reflection and journaling. Three stories that I believe may resemble VT are shared and analyzed vis-à-vis the literature. My personal vignettes are compared with signs and symptoms of VT and illustrate how they may manifest in the daily lives of SANEs.</p><p><strong>Implications: </strong>To date, researchers have neglected to explore concrete examples of the personal depth VT may exhibit in an individual's life. By disclosing and synthesizing my personal stories, I hope to encourage SANEs to be open about their experiences, spread awareness and prevention strategies regarding VT, and, ultimately, further enhance well-being and promote increased longevity in their careers.</p>","PeriodicalId":94079,"journal":{"name":"Journal of forensic nursing","volume":" ","pages":"47-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142515388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reporting Intimate Partner Violence in the Healthcare Setting.","authors":"","doi":"10.1097/JFN.0000000000000515","DOIUrl":"10.1097/JFN.0000000000000515","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94079,"journal":{"name":"Journal of forensic nursing","volume":" ","pages":"E15-E17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142515390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Increasing Sexual Violence Reporting and Disclosure in Higher Education Institutions: A Proposed Approach to Critically Analyze the Internal Organizational Context.","authors":"Karen Kennedy, KelleyAnne Malinen, Virginia Gunn","doi":"10.1097/JFN.0000000000000490","DOIUrl":"10.1097/JFN.0000000000000490","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>This article explores the underreporting of sexual violence (SV) in higher education, highlighting serious implications for survivors who may silently cope with its aftermath instead of accessing crucial resources.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We utilize Bolman and Deal's four-frame model for organizational change to assess how internal factors within organizations may influence reporting of SV. The four frames-symbolic, structural, human resources, and political-offer a systematic analysis of the internal organizational context in higher education institutions concerning SV reporting.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Our suggested approach offers concrete dimensions and probing questions for examination. Derived from a qualitative study, our recommendations align with Bolman and Deal's four-frame model, aiding in assessing the organizational environment. This approach assists stakeholders in identifying barriers/facilitators in the internal organizational context of higher education institutions, enabling effective planning for improved SV reporting/disclosure.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>A thorough analysis is essential for understanding factors influencing campus SV reporting. Our proposed critical analysis and recommendations serve as a starting point to identify organizational barriers/facilitators, informing the revision of SV policies and processes, including reporting.</p><p><strong>Potential impact of improved sexual assault reporting in higher education institutions on forensic nursing and survivors/victims allies: </strong>Enhanced reporting of sexual assault in higher education benefits forensic nurses and allies, like student affairs, advocacy groups, unions, SV coordinators, health centers, equity departments, human rights officers, and administration. Improved analysis of institutional and cultural contexts allows for tailored services to better meet survivors' needs. Increased reporting should lead institutions to higher service utilization, requiring careful planning for resource allocation.</p>","PeriodicalId":94079,"journal":{"name":"Journal of forensic nursing","volume":" ","pages":"29-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11902588/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142082930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}