TRAVERSE CITY — Forensic nurses at Munson Medical Center are playing a key role in combating criminal sexual assault in northern Michigan. Each year, they conduct 40 to 50 “SANE” exams to collect ...

REAL LIFE: Unlike in Hollywood where, "you get results in under an hour," crime labs can take six to nine months to test the DNA evidence in a rape kit, says Mission Health forensic nurse team ...

For nurses looking for a new way to work in nursing, forensic nursing is a unique role that has a lot to offer. Described by the International Association of Forensic Nurses as the “practice of ...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — The hospital where Sharita Godwin works in central North Carolina doesn’t have any Black nurses trained in administering forensic exams to sexual assault victims. She’s aiming to ...

Care by a forensic nurse examiner differs from other types of medical intervention in that patients are empowered to have total control of their hospital visits. People who fall victim to ...

East Tennessee State University’s College of Nursing has added a forensic nurse certificate to its lineup of online programs. The post-baccalaureate certificate is for nurses who want to expand their ...

Like a lot of nurses interested in this field, I found the combination of the medical and forensic worlds fascinating. Always one to try to figure out "why" or "how," this field of nursing seemed to ...

The cases involving children are the hardest for Frederick Memorial Hospital nurse Tracy Montgomery. Montgomery has been a nurse for more than 30 years, the majority of which she has spent at FMH. And ...

Nurses are now playing a valuable role in assessing people held in police custody, complementing the traditional role of the police doctor and improving response times, according to research published ...

A revolution to establish forensic nursing science in Germany is researched and presented in a dynamic article by Andrea Lambe, MS, BSN, RN, a staff nurse at the Institute of Legal Medicine in Hamburg ...

In an effort to decrease the number of unreported sexual assaults in the Appalachian Highlands, the College of Nursing at East Tennessee State University will use a $1.4 million federal grant to train ...

A leading forensic nurse researcher has developed new approaches to detecting bruises in patients with darker skin tones – thus helping to overcome barriers to diagnosing injuries in patients of color ...