Open AccessNurse-Led Forensic Services for Foreign-Born Torture or Abuse Survivors Seeking Legal Immigration Relief: Results of a Feasibility and Acceptability Study
Author(s) -
Jennifer L. Breads,
Jocelyn Anderson
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of forensic nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1939-3938
pISSN - 1556-3693
DOI - 10.1097/jfn.0000000000000294
Subject(s) - forensic nursing , torture , nursing , refugee , medicine , immigration , scope of practice , population , poison control , medical emergency , health care , political science , law , human rights , environmental health
In 2017, a team of forensic nurses in Maryland launched the first known nurse-led and managed service delivery program designed to meet the unique medicoforensic needs of immigrant survivors, including asylum seekers, in their community. The expanded suite of services involved conducting forensic physical evaluations, which included medicolegal history-taking, head-to-toe forensic physical assessment, photodocumentation, and presentation of related findings in the form of written affidavits for use in applications for legal reliefs in immigration court (e.g., asylum, T or U visas, Convention Against Torture).