International Journal of Nursing Education
  • Year: 2011
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 1

Multidimensional role of forensic nursing

  • Author:
  • Barakha Gupta
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 64 to 65

Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Saraswathi Institute of Medical Sciences, Anwarpur, Hapur, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

Forensic Nursing is a new, challenging and rapidly growing field of nursing which is a combination of medical training of a nurse, with the investigative powers of police detectives and legal training. A forensic nurse is a nurse with specialized training in tackling cases of sexual assaults, unnatural deaths, human rights abuse, child abuse, geriatric abuse, psychiatry, evidence collection, legal testimony and many more. In this paper author has tried to highlight different roles of forensic nursing.

Keywords

Forensic nursing, Clinical forensic nurse, Death investigator, sexual assault nurse examiner, forensic psychiatric nurse