Humanitarian Forensic Approaches in Forensic Nursing for Victim Management: A Vindicative Case of Victim’s Reunion with Family

Abstract

Forensic Nursing is one of the most evolving specialties in Nursing science. Forensic nursing has been conventionally considered a nursing science disciplinethat is more related to support and assistance in medicolegal cases. But in addition to this, it is also a skill of rendering comprehensive care to the victims of any trauma, violence, abuse, neglect and disasters. This sort of ideological humanitarian forensic approach has been referred to, in this article, as a case study which was found to be unique. For the obvious reason of maintaining professional secrecy and integrity of both the victim and the hospital where the person was treated, the identity has not been revealed/ disclosed (instead named as X). The above-stated person X was a victim of forced migration and was a mentally ill individual. The victim belonged to the state of Maharashtra and was reunited with the family after being provided and compassionate care by the prospective students of Forensic Nursing during their clinical posting. This case reveals the importance of forensic nursing with the holistic humanitarian approach, with the orientation of reuniting the victim with family.