Hi. I’m glad to make your acquaintance. I’m an award-winning writer of books, scripts, adaptations, and teacher/mentor of writers as well as a forensic nurse I help writers, producers (and attorneys as an expert witness) with their medical, forensic, poison and investigative scenes. I’ve worked with several shows including True Investigations and Discovery Channel. Check out my IMDB Serita D Stevens, and www.seritastevens.com. If I can help you with anything, let me know. My best email is seritadstevens@gmail.com
Introduce Yourself : Hi all! by Serita Stevens
Other topics in Introduce Yourself:
Check out Trending Discussions
Register / Log In
The forensic work as an expert would be of value in the bizz I'm sure. I'm also an RN but not in that field.
All RNs should be knowledgeable about this! My book The Forensic Nurse tells all the different ways we help police with crimes -not just sexual assault, but DV, elder and child abuse, arson, MVA, workman's comp, trauma, death investigation and legal nurse consulting, among others. The fact is we make better expert witnesses than doctors do because we can relate to the jury while the docs speak in medicalese. Anyway, my scripted character driven procedural pilot has been optioned and we are looking for a showrunner which the networks are insisting we bring on ourselves- even thou the guys that optioned it are Emmy award CSI people!!
I am an RN as well. I am interested in forensic nursing but I haven't done anything about it yet.
We are doing a revision and reprinting my forensic nurse book from St Martin's Press now but you might find some copies still around or in the libraries. Check out IAFN.org - the international assoc of forensic nurses conference is where I first got my info start. They can guide you to other programs. Their is also The American Assoc of Forensic Nurses out of Palm Springs and several on line courses in and groups you can find. Another place if you are interested in death investigation is Brent Turvey's group - he has courses on Victimology, Blood Splatter, wound analysis etc. Very few nurses and almost no MD know how to collect evidence and it's important to know. We also make the best expert witnesses because we relate to the patients and the juries on their level and not with medicalese. That is what I do the most of - legal nurse consulting in psych cases (my expertise). More people need to know what we do - it's not just sexual assault cases. I do a lot of work with domestic violence victims, elder and child abuse, too. We also work with MVA, arson, prisons, and death investigation. Start with reading my book and that will give you a taste. Let me know if I can help
Serita, I have taken LNC courses myself. A few years ago, I worked on chronological timelines. I got away from it and I am working my way back. I will most definitely be checking into the organizations that you mentioned. Thank you.
Yes lnc is part of forensic nursing
The word forensic means legal so anything that works in conjunction with legal is forensic- med, nurse, anthro, dds, vet, accountant etc