Setting a new standard of Sexual Assault Trauma Care
WELLSBORO, Pa (WENY) — UPMC Soldiers + Sailors and Penn State have teamed up for the past year to provide sexual assault victims with the care they need. Whenever a victim goes to the emergency room, a sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) will call another nurse at the SAFE-T Center at Penn State. “One of the biggest things with patients…
Since Cindy Forbes, R.N., became a sexual assault forensic nurse examiner seven years ago, she has been the only specialized examiner in her rural community of Lakeport, California. “If my victims aren’t getting rape exams here, they aren’t getting rape exams,” said Forbes, an emergency department nurse at Sutter Lakeside Hospital, in a video for the National TeleNursing Center. Lakeport is…
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Forensic nursing has emerged as a discipline to help curb the harmful effects that sexual assault victims face. According to the International Association of Forensic Nurses, “forensic nursing is the practice of nursing globally when health and legal systems interact.” Usually, it involves a nurse with highly specialized training in areas like forensic evidence and collection,…
NCVRW was commemorated on April 7–13, 2019. This year’s theme—Honoring Our Past. Creating Hope for the Future.—celebrates the progress made by those before us as we look to a future of crime victim services that is even more inclusive, accessible, and trauma-informed. https://youtu.be/YWmRDq8pc9g
Sheridan Miyamoto, Ph.D., FNP, RN, assistant professor in the Penn State College of Nursing, is principle investigator for an innovative project designed to use telehealth to ensure positive, timely, and thorough forensic examinations for victims of sexual assault in rural communities. The Sexual Assault Forensic Examination and Telehealth (SAFE-T) Center, supported by a $4.1 million grant from the U.S. Department…
University Park, Pa. — Nurses are often the first and possibly the only professionals — whether medical or legal — that a survivor of sexual violence has contact with following an assault, yet many clinics and hospitals do not train nurses in the complex medical and forensic processes required to properly treat these trauma patients. Addressing Pediatric Sexual ViolenceSheridan Miyamoto,…
Delivering the new standard of Sexual Assault Trauma Care
