Forensic Nursing

A Concise Manual
Herausgeber: Garbacz Bader, Donna M; Gabriel, L Sue

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The forensic nurse has a powerful role in medical-legal investigations. This volume presents practical information directed at the range of activities that forensic nurses perform. It discusses crime scene and death investigation, evidence collection, autopsies, legal issues, and ethics. The authors pinpoint the role of the forensic nurse in an array of incident scenarios, provide emergency room recommendations, discuss profiling and forensic anthropology, and offer guidance on working with grieving family members. Using a succinct outline format, the text is complemented by illustrative flowcharts and references for further study.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 462
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781420067309
• ISBN-10: 1420067303
• Artikelnr.: 26158377

Autorenporträt

Donna Garbacz Bader and Sue Gabriel are associate professors at Bryan LGH College of Health Sciences, School of Nursing in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Inhaltsangabe

Forensic Nursing. Forensic Nursing Today. Forensic Nursing Education
Guidelines and Qualifications. Educational Foundation for Forensic Nursing
Practice. Forensic Science. Coroners, Medical Examiners, and Forensic
Pathologists. Cause, Manner, and Mechanism of Death. Crime Scene
Investigation. Forensic Nursing Crime Scene Investigation. Establishing
Time of Death and Injury: Forensic Nursing Practice and Responsibility.
Chain of Custody and Identification, Collection, and Preservation of
Evidence: Major Concepts of Forensic Nursing. Significance of an Autopsy.
The Nursing Process. Forensic Nursing and the Law. Forensic Nurse as an
Expert Witness. The Perpetrator: A Victim and a Patient. Ethics and
Forensic Nursing Practice. Psychosocial Aspects of Crime. Deaths in Nursing
Homes. Excited Delirium Syndrome (EDS). Blunt Force Injuries. Sharp Force
Trauma. Gunshot Wounds. Asphyxia. Child Abuse. Sexual Assault. Intimate
Partner Violence. Cyberspace Crimes Against Children. Human Trafficking.
Mass Disasters. Additional Violence in Society. Emergency Department Dos
and Don'ts. Bridging the Gap Between the Living and the Nonliving.
Profiling. From Crime Scene to Morgue: The Field of Forensic Anthropology.
Appendix: Medicolegal Death Scene Investigation: Guidelines for the
Forensic Nurse Death Investigator (FNDI). Index.