Ann Burgess and Forensic Nursing: AJN Special Issue Highlights
The April issue of AJN is now live.
Here are some highlights. Some articles are open access or temporarily free; others will require log-in for access.
A SPECIAL ISSUE DEVOTED TO FORENSIC NURSING
In this month’s guest editorial, “The Sherlock Holmes of Nursing,” Angela Frederick Amar, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean at the NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing, gives a compelling overview of the career of forensic nursing pioneer Ann Burgess. She begins this way:
Ann Wolbert Burgess is often described as the “Sherlock Holmes of Nursing,” but that title only captures half of her legacy. While Holmes deduced what had already happened, Burgess’s greatest gift has been her uncanny ability to “see around the corner”—to identify societal crises and clinical needs years, sometimes decades, before the rest of the health care and legal systems recognized them. Throughout her storied career, Burgess has operated at the vanguard of forensic nursing, victimology, and behavioral profiling. Her foresight is characterized by three distinct “turns” around the corner, where she anticipated the future of nursing and justice.
The rest of the editorial is free to read, and is both inspiring (in the best sense) and informative.
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