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Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Regaining Sanity Post Assault . What does SANE have to do with it.

The most common subspicies of the Nurse Examiner is the Forensic Nurse  or SANE , and yet another spiecies is the Hospice Care Examiner, while the Forensics Nurse duties are different and distinct than that of the Hospice Care Nurse each serve a specific service in allied health. The approach to sexual assault exam vary greatly and depends on where the assault has taken place ; the methods may also vary from state to state and jurisdictional differences in prosicutorial procedures also vary when the Forensic Nurse Examiners investigation has yielded results that merit prosecution in Rape and Sexual Assault (Stevens ,2004) .  SART locations are  important in and several are found in diverse jurisdictions , counties , states . SART locations are intricate to the Forensic Nurse because these are the clinical settings utilized to examine victims and servivors of sexual assault . Newer programs have chosen to use a more generic term for the  clinical setting ; these would be the acronym SAFE which house the Nurse Examiner or (FNE) . Many FNE or SANE may begin there specialty in Emergency Rooms where they gain experience in assisting to care for and collect specimens relevent to assault cases. The SANE is ot a patient advocate ; and the intricate work include data collection ,  specimen collection, hair and fiber collection and any other relevant physical evidence related to the assault . The FNE also serve as witness in prosicutorial procedures and must there for poses knowledge of criminal law . The SANE Nurse dedicate ample time in which lead to the  carrying out  these duties ; with the minimum being six hours of assessment and treatment ; post assault  which lead to the discovery of the wrath of the event ; these specialized nurses do not mind being challenged by defense attorneys in court room trials and more than 80 % of victims who recieve a proper SANE exam have a successful prosecution of the rapist .  One of the most important tasks that the FNE has is to safe guard victims identity , adhere to HIPPA rules in documenting  and in documetation must be of the highest quality wich provides Assurance in Evidence Based Public Health .

References
Stevens , S (2004) Forensic Nurse . The New Role of the Nurse in Law Enforcement . Saint Martin Press . New York              

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