title: [Nursing practice in the face of a potentially suspect situation].
abstract: Nurses are rarely confronted with potentially criminal situations in their professional practice. The nursing culture does not prepare them especially for such cases, nor for the actions to take to preserve a scene which may contain valuable clues in the event of any legal proceedings. Sometimes contradictory to nurses' reflexes when dealing with emergencies, some basic precautions are nevertheless essential.
authors.affiliation: Centre psychothérapique de Nancy, 1, rue Docteur-Archambault, 54520 Laxou, France. Electronic address: alertofeu@hotmail.fr.
authors.forename: Aymeric
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lapp
mesh_terms: D053604:Forensic Nursing; D006801:Humans
keywords: clues; crime scene; emergency care and assistance; homicide; indice; investigation; scène de crime; secours à personne