March 15th
By: Savannah Jeane
What She Has Spent Her Year Studying
Forensic Nursing: Forensic nurses provide specialized care for patients who are expecting acute and long-term health consequences associated with victimization or violence, and/or have unmet evidentiary needs relative to having been victimized or accused of victimization.
Sub-specialties:
Legal Nurse Consultants
Correctional Nurse
Nurse coroner or death investigator
Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SAND) Nurse
Strawberry DNA Extraction
ABOUT OUR ACTIVITY
When treating a rape victim they will take swabs of DNA from multiple people. They will also have a
control. We will be extracting DNA from samples so it can be compared.
We started with a whole strawberry. We smashed the strawberry inside a small plastic bag until it was close to smooth. Once it was smooth, we added a chemical buffer.
The strawberry and the buffer were then filtered into a testing tube. We were required to have liquid up to about the 2 mark. Then, we added a new chemical that separated the DNA from the buffer. We used a wooden stick to pull up the DNA. The DNA was stringy and clear.
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