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I've given IV Decadron PO, however there is only one physician in our ED that orders it this way. I have never heard of giving IV Zofran PO though.

This would be such a great idea I do not know why our area does not have something like this, the one time I was almost assigned a patient like this, I was lucky and a SANE nurse was on duty, it took her a consecutive three hours to complete the kit and the charting.

I work in a smaller emergency department, we aren't rural but we aren't in city, just an average size town. We have 21 beds, I am just curious on how emergency departments that are about our size deal with rape survivors? I know SANE nurses are exclusively trained to handle these patients appropriately, our ED has three SANE nurses, who aren't always on duty, how does your ED handle these patients if there is no SANE nurse on duty? We have a lot of new nurses working in our department, and am just worried one of us are going to get a patient like this one night and none of us have ever used the rape kit or know the required charting.