Nurses Helping Nurses
allnurses Network: Central | Jobs | Books | Newsletter
allnurses: A Nursing Community for Nurses
Home General News Blogs Articles Students Region Specialty Degrees F.A.Q.
Forensic Nursing /

exams without training



Did You Know?
allnurses is the largest community for nurses on the web. We now have over 388,715 members! Join today to network with other nurses, laugh, share, and much more.

Dec 05, 2005 02:06 PM

exams without training


The facility I worked at for the last three years sent a few of us to the SART classes (40+ hrs of classroom training) so we would be more prepared if we had to do an exam. Even with this training, we sent the rape victims to the nearest hospital with a SART program with a qualified SANE RN. I am now doing travel nursing and at this assignment ALL the RNs in the ER are expected to do the exam or at least help the ER doc as s/he does the exam. We have the forensic assault kit in the ER. We do not have a culposcope (sp?) or any good cameras. We only have a poloroid--and you know those are horrible for color quality as well as zooming in on small tears, scratches and abrasions. I am concerned about the quality of exams as well as what will happen when some of these go to trial.

Have you ever worked at a facility that requires all ER RNs to do a sexual assault exam without training?

How do you do a good exam without a culposcope or a good camera? (I know, document, document, document...)


Share

Search Tags
None
Top

 
Advertisement
Sponsored Links
 
Reply
2 Comments
No. 1
from gonzo1
Old Aug 28, 2006, 11:15 AM

Default Re: exams without training
In our ER all nurses are trained to do sexual assault exam, MD comes into room only for pelvic portion of exam, then leaves. We use a kit sent to us from state police and it is handed off to local police. We don't have any cameras, so no way to document that way. I would like to see better training for our nurses who do this but doubt this will happen any time soon.
Top
 
No. 2
from sirI
Old Aug 28, 2006, 11:22 AM

Default Re: exams without training
gonzo1
In our ER all nurses are trained to do sexual assault exam, MD comes
into room only for pelvic portion of exam, then leaves. We use a kit
sent to us from state police and it is handed off to local police. We
don't have any cameras, so no way to document that way. I would like to
see better training for our nurses who do this but doubt this will
happen any time soon
Well, maybe this is their turning point - YOU will be the one who makes a difference............
Top
 
Reply




Thread Tools


Who's Online
225 members
1,833 guests
2,058

2

Four Lehigh Valley Health Network nurses accused of...

46

lawsuit - But don't most RN's work through breaks/lunch...

0

Patient Evaluation of Retail Clinic Care

7

The hard to reach on-call doctor, and its effects on...

10

Woman charged with passing off prescription drug as...

23

Man in "Vegetative State" was conscious for 23...

2

Interesting article on ThedaCare's Collaborative Care Model

14

Possible breakthrough regarding MS

63

16th Philly area hospital to stop delivering babies: Mercy...

14

Really interesting article on Indian open hearts






Currently Reading This Page: 1 (0 members & 1 guests)

Interested in the hottest topics of the week? Subscribe to the Nurse-zine Newsletter.
Enter email address: