“…Thus, nurses should become familiar with and apply measuring instruments, both for patients' evaluation and the assessment of professionals' skills and knowledge in the area of forensic nursing. Up to now, the following instruments were identified: the Knowledge Questionnaire over Forensics Nursing Practices of Cunha and Libório (Questionário do Conhecimento sobre as Práticas de Enfermagem Forense, QCPEF de Cunha & Libório;Libório, 2012;Cunha, Libório, & Coelho, 2016), which includes statements for assessing the knowledge about concepts, situations, elements, and documentation in forensic sciences and forensic nursing; the General Questionnaire on Forensic Nursing (Questionário Geral sobre Enfermagem Forense, QGEF; Libório, 2012) that includes questions on the sociodemographic characterization and training of nursing students; and the Questionnaire on Forensic Nursing Practices (Questionário de Práticas de Enfermagem a realizar perante Situações Forenses, QPESF; Ribeiro, 2016), proposed based on clinical cases, to identify the relevant practices. Because it is an emerging area that is not yet offered as a specific discipline in most of the curricula of Brazilian nursing schools, the potential contri-bution of instruments for assessing students' and professionals' knowledge in their area justifies the development of this study.…”