AORN Global Surgical Conference & Expo 2018 Speaker Interviews

Speaking from her experience as a clinical nurse specialist, a board certified advanced forensic nurse, and a sexual assault nurse examiner, Joyce Foresman-Capuzzi, MSN, APRN, CCNS, will discuss the collection and preservation of forensic evidence from any scenario, including those involving projectiles and bullets, blunt injury, nonfatal strangulation, wounds, motor vehicle collisions, sharp-edged objects, a pedestrian, neardrowning, and explosions. Foresman-Capuzzi: Perioperative nurses often care for patients injured in or by motor vehicle collisions, accidents, falls, assaults, trauma, intimate partner violence, selfdirected violence, forms of child maltreatment, disasters, terrorist events, faulty equipment, or burns. Surgeons will be pleased to know as well that this aspect of their care of the patient is in good hands as the perioperative nurse speaks up about the need to collect evidence-in fact, this is a good opportunity for an attendee to present what was learned at a multidisciplinary grand rounds so all can learn. Because the term "forensic" confers a relationship with the legal system, a nurse leader would be interested to know how to develop policy and ensure a process is in place when caring for these patients. Sharing his expertise as an associate professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the health care epidemiologist for the University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System, a member of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Guidelines Committee, and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America representative for AORN's Guidelines Advisory Board, Camins will lead a didactic session that includes a Q&A on the state-of-theart summary on S aureus decolonization.