When the hit medical drama, The Pitt, showcased a patient receiving a sexual assault exam, we asked Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANEs) what it’s like to offer that care.
It’s Monday morning, July 8, in Meridian, Mississippi. Seven nurses from across the Gulf South are sitting around plastic tables set up in a small room down the hall from the Intensive Care Unit at ...
MERIDIAN, Idaho — Idaho State Police’s (ISP) SANE training program has built a network of specially trained healthcare providers to better help sexual assault victims. 251 registered nurses across ...
J Foren Nurs. 2005;1(4):187-188. It would seem like a simple problem to determine the number of SANE programs tht exist today. However, it clearly is not, since we still have only estimates, and even ...
Many people also don’t know what services are free — so while support may be available, they may not pursue them, said Jessie Blanchard, a nurse who is the medical surgical pediatric floor manager at ...
Registered nurses can go through additional training to become a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner, or SANE — allowing them to meet the specific health care needs of patients who experienced sexual ...
For more than 20 years, Jacqueline Callari Robinson has worked as a forensic nurse, helping survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault through life-altering traumas. The work is as high-stakes ...
As recent as 2018, rape survivors in much of Middle Tennessee had to travel to Nashville General Hospital as the only location where specially trained nurses could perform forensic sexual assault ...
AUBURN, Wash. — The State of Washington does not have enough nurses trained to best help victims of sexual assault. However, health leaders say a new federal grant will make some improvements. "We ...