• 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.