“…Thus, the International Council of Nurses (ICN), together with the World Health Organization (WHO), pointed out certain challenges regarding the performance of nursing professionals in the health-disaster-care process, which leads to the need for research, discussion, and dissemination of information about essential nursing competencies to act in the different stages of disasters (8,9,11) . Among the subareas that can bring substantial contributions to support nursing competencies in disasters there is forensic nursing, as it is understood that, in the care process in such situations, problems inherent to forensic aspects emerge, such as cases of unidentified dead victims, presence of remains, abandonment of the elderly, neglect of care for children and people with special needs, injuries, the existence of multiple forensic traces, sexual violence against victims of wars and refugees, and interpersonal violence in temporary shelters and field hospitals, in addition to the need to provide care based on local, regional or national laws (12)(13)(14)(15)(16) . Forensic nursing comprises a new nursing specialty in Brazil, and its formal recognition occurred within the Federal Nursing Council (COFEN) through Resolution number 389, 2011.…”