Forensic Nurse Hospitalist: The Comprehensive Role of the Forensic Nurse in a Hospital Setting

Forensic nursing is an evolving specialty designed to address the unique, intersecting health and legal needs of patients who are victims, suspects, and perpetrators of trauma. The “Forensic Nurse Hospitalist” is proposed as a new term to describe the role of the nurse who is qualified by licensure and education as a specialist in forensic nursing and practices specifically in the hospital setting. The forensic nurse hospitalist can provide comprehensive, medicolegal care to patients receiving treatment for trauma-related injury and questionable death in the acute care setting.
Source: Journal of Emergency Nursing: JEN - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Clinical Source Type: research