Forensic Notes

Description

This spiral-bound, pocket guide is the perfect quick reference for healthcare providers who collect forensic evidence from patients in any setting. You will find information about specific forensic topics, step-by-step procedures for retrieving and preserving evidence, and the best practices to follow to promote patient safety.

Key Features

• Provides easy-to-follow, how-to directions for patient interviews, assessment, and retrieving and preserving evidence.
• Makes reference easy with charts, tables, and bulleted lists.
• Features a full-color photographic documentation section that demonstrates the process of evidence collection and shows you how to how to improve your technique.
• Includes sample documentation records for forensic scenes.
• Describes the best practices to follow, the pitfalls to avoid, and how to promote patient safety.
• Features full-color photographs that depict injuries, physical evidence, and forensic procedural steps, as well as illustrations of human body diagram templates.
• Incorporates principles and standards of practice that are applicable internationally.
• Discusses issues relevant to specific groups of forensic patients.
• Offers frequently used forms and reference materials, including forensic terms with definitions
• body diagrams with anatomical terms
• decision-making flow diagrams
• sample chain of custody form
• list of commonly used agencies that help care for forensic patients
• sample photographic documentation and consent form
• and examples of basic to advanced injury documentation.
• Uses waterproof, write-on/wipe off pages.

Table of Contents

• Tab 1 27 Forensic Categories of Patients
• Tab 2 Evidence
• Tab 3 Documentation
• Tab 4 Legal Issues
• Tab 5 Child
• Tab 6 Adult
• Tab 7 Elderly, High-Risk, and Other Populations
• Tab 8 Tools