CSI Revolution Continues
Can you just imagine how the hit show CSI has revolutionized the world of forensics? They have created a new kind of interest compared to those scary, boring image it once had. In the latest accolade of influences the show brings, come the buzz on Forensic Nurses.
It’s all very “CSI.” And that’s the point of this mock scenario, staged for graduate nursing students last week at Quinnipiac University in Hamden. Because for all its gory glamorization of crime-scene investigations, the hit CBS series has overlooked an emerging player amid all the hype: forensic nurses.
“Forensic nursing? People say, `Oh, you work with dead people’ … or they say, `Oh, is that like `CSI’?’ I get that all the time,” says Kristin Schaer, a forensic nursing student at Quinnipiac who orchestrated the fake hospital scene as part of her final graduate presentation.
“And I have to explain there’s so much more to it than that.”
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angelo
May 12, 2006 at 4:20 am
Funny… I got interested in watching CSI because I loved watching those forensics shows in Discovery Channel. =)
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