Forensic nursing in urgency and emergency: a new approach perspective

Abstract

The aim of this article is to describe the performance of the forensic nurse in the Urgency and Emergency service. About the production took place from 2015 to 2021. For that, a narrative research of the literature was carried out, with qualitative approaches, where a synthesis of each production was developed, using the comparisons of the main results, the data analysis occurred in the form descriptive, allowing the evaluation of the articles according to the response and the selected studies were grouped in an analytical framework. Three categories were elaborated: Contextualizing Forensic Nursing, The Nurse in the Urgency and Emergency service and The performance of the forensic nurse in urgency and emergency. It was evidenced that the forensic nurse acts in the evaluations and collection of traces, in case of violence suffered by the patients outside/inside the hospital context and that he is the professional who first receives the victims who arrive at the emergency/urgency services, where he represents a important professional in a multidisciplinary team in the criminal investigation, where they are faced with opportunities to apply principles of Forensic Sciences, linked to their unique nursing skills. It is concluded that forensic nurses have the potential to act in urgent and emergency situations, as they have specific skills, in addition to working in the prevention and promotion of future cases.