Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner – Pediatric Course

October 28 thru November 1, 2019
Gundersen Medical Center
1900 South Ave, La Crosse WI

St. Croix Valley Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) is the provider of nursing contact hours for this activity in a joint-provider agreement with Wisconsin DOJ- Office of Crime Victim Services. Planners and presenters have no commercial interest or relevant relationships with commercial interest relevant to the educational content presented.

Nursing Medical/Forensic Training for Pediatrics includes the following curriculum. This curriculum meets the Educational Standards of the International Association of Forensic Nurses.

The following content framework is designed to provide the pediatric/adolescent SANE with the minimum target competencies to demonstrate the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor skills needed to use the nursing process when caring for pediatric and adolescent patients following sexual abuse/assault. The target competencies provide pediatric/adolescent SANEs from a variety of professional practice backgrounds with the foundational knowledge and critical thinking skills necessary to provide holistic, comprehensive care to pediatric and adolescent sexual abuse/assault patient populations. Each key target competency contains measureable outcome criteria that follow the steps of the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation.

Key Target Didactic Competencies:

1. Overview of Forensic Nursing and Child Sexual Abuse
2. Victim Responses and Crisis Intervention
3. Collaborating with Community Agencies
4. Medicolegal History Taking
5. Observing and Assessing Physical Examination Findings
6. Medicolegal Specimen Collection
7. Medicolegal Photography
8. Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing and Prophylaxis
9. Pregnancy Testing and Prophylaxis
10. Medicolegal Documentation
11. Discharge and Follow-Up Planning
12. Legal Considerations and Judicial Proceedings

Presenters Include:

This activity has been submitted to WNA CEAP for approval to award contact hours. Wisconsin Nurses Association is accredited as an approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation

This educational activity is evidence-based and free from bias and does not promote products or services of any individual practitioner or organization.

For successful completion of Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner educational program, learner must attend each full day of educational learning and complete and submit the days evaluation form.