Monday, May 15, 2017, 11:30 AM – 1 PM EDT

“Violence and Crime: The Healthcare Response”

Victims of violence are unfortunately ever-present in healthcare today, and nurses are often the first to interact with victims, stepping into uncomfortable or difficult situations. To ensure patient and provider safety and enable the best possible outcomes, every nurse should be well versed in forensic and theoretical issues of violence. Perhaps no one has done more to ensure that that’s the case than Angela Amar, an early pioneer in forensic nursing who has been instrumental in developing relevant nursing curriculum and establishing standards that have been accepted as applicable nationwide and worldwide. The book on the subject that she recently co-authored won two (that’s right, not one, but two) Book of the Year Awards from the American Journal of Nursing in 2016.