This up-to-date, evidence-based resource addresses all facets of forensics nursing, including legal and ethical issues, conducting interviews, trauma-informed care, delivering expert testimony, documenting injuries, and collecting and preserving evidentiary substances for Medico-Legal purposes.

Table of Contents

• Contributors
• Preface
• I. OVERVIEW OF FORENSIC NURSING PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE
• 1. History of Forensic Nursing - Meredith J. Scannell
• 2. Medical Examiner Investigator - Meredith J. Scannell
• 3. Principles of Evidence Collection and Preservation - Meredith J. Scannell
• 4. Providing Testimony in Forensic Cases - Barbara P. Madden
• 5. Trauma-Informed Care: Treating the Whole Person - Diane L. Miller
• II. ISSUES OF SEXUAL AND INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE
• 6. Sexual Assault - Meredith J. Scannell
• 7. Military Sexual Trauma - Meredith J. Scannell
• 8. Campus Sexual Assault - Meredith J. Scannell
• 9. Interpersonal Violence - Meredith J. Scannell and Patricia A. Normandin
• III. AGE-RELATED VIOLENCE
• 10. Child Maltreatment - Kristine Ruggiero
• 11. Elder Maltreatment - Stacy Brady
• 12. Bullying - Meredith J. Scannell
• IV. COMMUNITY AND GLOBAL VIOLENCE
• 13. Community Violence - Meredith J. Scannell
• 14. Strangulation - Andrea MacDonald
• 15. Human Trafficking - Andrea MacDonald
• 16. Gunshot Wounds - Meredith J. Scannell
• 17. Acts of Terrorism: Healthcare in the Age of Modern Terrorism - Yaeko Marie Karantonis
• 18. Mass Disasters - Corrine Foster and George E. Flores