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The Medical Director’s Role in Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Programs

ACEP Now

At your monthly meeting with the chief medical officer (CMO) and chief nursing officer (CNO), they inform you of the hospitals plan to start a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program. Discussion SANE programs started in the early 1970s to provide medical forensic examinations to patients after sexual assault.

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Major Trauma – Injuries by Assault

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Information should be shared, ideally with the young persons consent, with social care and any other agencies (nationwide or local) that may be able to support, e.g. independent domestic violence advocate, victim support, and sexual assault referral entre. link] Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine. TXA in head injuries.

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It’s EMERGENCY Nurse to you!

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Nurses'; L&D Nurses, Pediatric Nurses. Those who are also trained in forensic work can work with sexual-assault cases, law enforcement, or death scene investigation and survivor counselling. .; Post-Anesthesia Care Unit; Delivery Room; Medical-Surgical Ward Nurse. Job ads will ask for 'O.R. Nurses', I gnash my teeth.

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ED care of refugee populations from sub-Saharan Africa

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These patients suffer from untreated physical injuries, including gunshot wounds, shrapnel, accidents, envenomations, sequelae of physical or sexual assault, and heat exhaustion/heat stroke. BMC Pediatr. Viral hemorrhagic fevers and their regions in Africa. STI testing and prophylaxis should take place when indicated.