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Summary: Forensic nursing refers to the application of nursing science to legal proceedings, which includes collecting evidence from potential crime scenes. Discover the areas of training that forensic nurses receive, which include domestic assault, sexual assault and child abuse, with helpful information from a forensic chemist in this free video on science careers.
Bethany Pridgen is a forensic chemist working in a local city police department crime laboratory. Over the past year, she has been developing a more functional forensic laboratory for...read more
"Hi my name is Bethany Pridgen. I am a forensic chemist, and I am going to about what is forensic nursing. Forensic nursing is the application of nursing science to legal proceedings. Forensic nurses are specially trained to collect evidence in situations where there is a suspicion of a crime that may have occurred. Forensic nurses typically identify evidence that has to do with domestic assaults, sexual assaults, and child abuse. They are also trained in other areas outside of inter-personal violence such as those domestic assaults and sexual assaults. They also can be trained in areas such as emergency and trauma situations such as examining bodies and injuries from vehicle accidents, and other traumatic accidents. They can also pursue investigations of patient care issues such as in a nursing home where there may be suspicion of neglect or improper treatment. They also tend to aid in other types of death investigation, and even mass disasters. A forensic nurse will often act as a liaison between the medical field, and the criminal justice system. They are able to get information to an investigator that an investigator may not be trained to collect, and the nurse may only identify because of her medical skills. These are just some examples of what forensic nursing is. But it can also be used interchangeably with sexual assault nurse or sexual forensic nurse examiner or a nurse examiner. So when you hear the term forensic nurse, and those terms all those terms can be combined to help you understand what forensic nursing is."
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