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How EM Physicians Should Manage Their Legal and Medical Duties

ACEP Now

A 16-year-old female presents to the emergency department (ED) after being sexually assaulted by two males at a party at her friend’s house. Failure to follow these forensic compliance provisions of VAWA can result in loss of funding for your state. Mandatory reporting and adolescent sexual assault. What do you do?

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It’s EMERGENCY Nurse to you!

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

work is available in flight nursing, either helicopter EMS or long-distance repatriation flights; remote worksites, critical-care transports. Those who are also trained in forensic work can work with sexual-assault cases, law enforcement, or death scene investigation and survivor counselling.

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ED care of refugee populations from sub-Saharan Africa

EMDocs

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.