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Title CLINICAL FORENSIC NURSING
Author Virginia A. Lynch, MSN, RN, FAAFS
Synopsis A New Perspective in the Management of Crime Victims from Trauma to Trial

Description Adapted from Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America Sept. 1995

Violence and its associated trauma are widely recognized as a critical health problem in North America and throughout the world. Forensic nursing represents a new era of nursing practice that is evolving in direct response to the sequelae of criminal and interpersonal violence. The application of the principles and standards of the forensic specialist in nursing has been recognized as a vital new role in trauma care in the 1990s.

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Document ID: 1890
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