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Major Trauma – Injuries by Assault

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Information should be shared, ideally with the young persons consent, with social care and any other agencies (nationwide or local) that may be able to support, e.g. independent domestic violence advocate, victim support, and sexual assault referral entre. Non-fatal strangulation: in physical and sexual assault.

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It’s EMERGENCY Nurse to you!

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Those who are also trained in forensic work can work with sexual-assault cases, law enforcement, or death scene investigation and survivor counselling. If I chose not to work primarily in an E.D., Readers must verify validity to their own practice.

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The 88th Bubble Wrap x Chesterfield GP Training group

Don't Forget the Bubbles

In the UK, the proportion of children aged 7 to 16 with a probable mental disorder jumped from 12% in 2017 to 18% in 2022. One of the harmful effects of smartphone use is detailed here: Technology-facilitated sexual assault in children and adolescents – Don’t Forget the Bubbles.

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ED care of refugee populations from sub-Saharan Africa

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These patients suffer from untreated physical injuries, including gunshot wounds, shrapnel, accidents, envenomations, sequelae of physical or sexual assault, and heat exhaustion/heat stroke. Viral hemorrhagic fevers and their regions in Africa. 87 The majority of the injuries seen in the ED are associated with violent conflicts.