Caring in forensic nursing. Expanding the holistic model.
Nurses have practiced forensic nursing for many years without formal recognition of the domain as a discipline for specialized study. Forensic nursing expands the traditional concept of holism to include the medical-legal aspects of potential or actual client problems. The American Nurses Association (ANA) and the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) recently have designated forensic nursing as a unique specialty. Recognition of forensic nursing as a specialty area of practice within nursing mandates that the specialty define and explicate its major conceptual base. A concept germane to the practice of forensic nursing is that of caring. Caring as a central concept to the role of this specialty is discussed, and the implications for its inclusion in a curriculum preparing forensic nurses are explored.
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Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut 06518, USA.
D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods*; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D009732:Nursing Care; D013041:Specialties, Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods*