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Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE)
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"A non-profit organization dedicated to conducting and documenting skillful forensic evidence collection with compassionate care when a patient makes a disclosure of sexual assault."
Philosophy
The Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners Program will offer comprehensive and collaborative care to victims of sexual assault in the emergency room or clinic and will also educate those victims on their rights and benefits of receiving an exam and treatment.
Assistance
If you have been a victim of sexual assault, please do not bathe, eat, drink, smoke, brush your teeth, or wipe after urination. Please seek emergency medical treatment as soon as possible. The emergency room staff at our designated SANE sites or the local law enforcement agency will notify the SANE Nurse on call. The SANE will then meet you at the hospital. You are not required to report to law enforcement in order to obtain a forensic exam and receive treatment.
Services
- Provide compassionate and skillful nursing care to adolescent and adult victims of sexual assault in collaboration with designated emergency room departments and law enforcement.
- Maintain a team of sexual assault nurse examiners who respond 24 hours a day at designated emergency departments across the city of Lafayette.
- Provide specialized medical-legal exams, including sexual assault evidence collection kits for victims of sexual assault 12 years of age and older.
- Provide education and appropriate referral for victims of sexual assault who seek treatment at designated emergency departments in Lafayette.
- Enhance existing community-based response systems for victims of sexual assault through multi-disciplinary training and a Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) approach.
- Assist victims with reporting sexual assault crimes to law enforcement agencies based on the victim's desire to do so.
- Improve and standardize data on the rate of sexual assault victims who seek treatment in Lafayette hospital emergency departments.
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Program | Introduction | | SANE TRAINING | This extensive 5 day didactic course is designed to provide the registered nurse with comprehensive training on conducting and documenting skillful forensic evidence collection with compassionate care when a patient makes a disclosure of sexual assault. |
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