Archived Webinars

Presenters:Valorie Prulhiere MSN, RN, SANE-A with guest speaker Brian McDonough JD, former Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor

Presenters:Julie Valentine, PhD, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P
Rebekah Kay, MSc

Presenters:Gail Hornor, DNP, CPNP, SANE-P

Presenters: Julie Valentine, PhD, RN, SANE-A, FAAN
Rebekah Kay, MSc

Presenters: Katherine Scafide, PhD, RN
Cathy Carter Snell, PhD, RN, SANE-A

Presenters: Kathleen Sekula, PhD, APRN, FAAN
Julie Valentine, PhD, RN, CNE, SANE-A
Sheridan Myamoto, PhD, FNP, RN

This training will explain the roles of the clinician and advocate during a sexual assault medical forensic exam and how the advocate provides benefits to both patient and clinician, specifically during the teleSAFE exam. Presenters will discuss the different types of advocacy programs and the confidentiality associated with each type. They will also share their own experiences and the positive impact experienced by both patient and clinicians.

Presenter: Diane Daiber, BSN, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P and Christina Presenti

This webinar will compare and contrast the experiences of two sexual assault patients, one who had the benefit of a trained forensic nurse examiner wnd one who did not. The differences in options for care of each patient will be discussed and how their experiences impacted thier overall outcomes.

Presenter: Karen Carroll, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P, NY-SAFE

This case study will discuss the role of the forensic nurse caring for patients who are in need of HIV nPEP post sexual assault. The discussion will describe how to formulate a plan for patients who are in need of HIV nPEP that present to your facility and also discuss ways to implement care of this patient population utilizing a case study scenario.

Presenter: Leslie A. Hagen, U. S. Department of Justice

This webinar discusses the basics of child sexual development, the continuum of sexual behavior problems in children, and how to respond to children with sexual behavior problems. The learner will gain confidence in how to recognize when child sexual behaviors are concerning and how it is applicable to the medical forensic exam for the pediatric patient population.

Presenter: Ashley Cinalli-Mathews, LCSW, MSW, DCFI

When sexual assault occurs in a hospital, there are many departments that must be involved for the appropraite response. Many forensic nurses are unaware of all that needs to occur and the different perspectives that must be recorgnized when a patient is victimized in the health care setting. This learning opportunity will discuss the multidisciplinary response to sexual assault in a health care facility utilizing case study scenarios.

The learning module will discuss child labor trafficking in the US. The learner will identify and describe limits to the ability of quantifying child labor trafficking as well as describe risk factors for entry into child labor trafficking. In addition there will be a robust discussion around practice interventions for the forensic nurse.

Presenter: Gail Hornor, DNP, CPNP, SANE-P

This learning session will describe a clinical research study. The purpose of the study was to describe forensic evidence findings in acute child sexual abuse after implementing more inclusive indications for collection of evidence in a pediatric emergency department and to identify factors associated with increased yield of identifiable foreign DNA.

Presenter: Gail Hornor, DNP, RN-C, CPNP, SANE-P

Presenters: Jessica Mindlin, JD, and Ruth Vaughan, JD

Few forensic nursing programs utilize anoscopes as an assessment tool for anorectal injury evaluation due to a lack of training regarding use and interpretation of findings.This webinar will discuss education regarding anorectal evaluation post sexual assault and provide an overivew of anoscopes as an assessment tool.

Presenter: Tara Henry, MSN, RN, FNP-C, SANE-A, SANE-P

Forensic nursing programs pride themselves on providing compassionate care to the most vulnerable patients in times of crisis. Is your program set up to provide gender-affirming healthcare to transgender or non-binary survivors of violence across their lifespan? In contrast to the general population, individuals that identify as transgender or non-binary is at heightened risk to experience sexual, physical, dating, and intimate partner violence, and experience higher exposure rates to HIV/AIDS.

Presenters: Ashley Stewart, RPN, BScPN, MSN, SANE-A, SANE-P (she/her) Ashley Gawne

This webinar will discuss the knowledge required to perform the role of the adult/adolescent forensic nurse in assessing, identifying, and confirming physical findings in the patient using a multimethod approach.

Presenter: Karen Carroll, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P, NY-SAFE and Tamara Scarlett, MPH, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P

This learning opportunity will discuss in depth the issue of child sexual abuse and suicide to include the mechanisms linking sexual abuse and suicide, as well as taking a closer look at the implications for forensic nursing practice to include suicide screening, suicide risk assessment and mental health resources.

Presenter: Gail Hornor, DNP, CPNP, SANE-P

Join IAFN for a brief celebration of theViolence Against Women Act(VAWA).Congress recently passed thisbipartisan legislation as part of theOmnibus appropriations package. VAWAfunding enables us as forensic nurses tomeet our mission of providing trauma-informed nursing care to populationsaffected by violence.

Presenters: Nicole Stahlmann, MN, RN, SANE-A, AFN-BC
Christina Presenti
tim Perrin
Sylvia Kornegay
Anna Dietderich
Kristina Sesek

This learning opportunity will assist Title IX Coordinators and their offices to develop an increased knowledge of the importance of the medical forensic exam and overall benefit of the multidisciplinary approach for the student who has experienced violence.

Presenter: Sara Jennings, DNP, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P, AFN-BC

This learning opportunity will discuss in depth the issue of child sexual abuse and suicide to include the mechanisms linking sexual abuse and suicide, as well as taking a closer look at the implications for forensic nursing practice to include suicide screening, suicide risk assessment and mental health resources.

Presenters: Stephanie Deutsch, MD, MS, FAAP
Shannonlee Reese, MSN, RN, FNE
Suzanne Poldon, MNSc, RN
Stacy Drake, PhD, MPH, RN
Donna Scott Tilley, PhD, RN, CA/CP SANE, FAAN
Karen Wickwire, DNP, CRNP, SANE-A, SANE-P
Angie Ellis, MSN, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P
Sara Jennings, DNP, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P, AFN-BC

Offering emergency contraception is an essential element of medical forensic care. This 30 minute educational offering will compare Ella and Plan B in terms of efficacy, side effects, and special indications.

Presented by Gail Hornor, DNP, RN-C, CPNP, SANE-P

Abusive head trauma results in significant morbidity and mortality. This 4-hour educational offering will provide the pediatric forensic nurse with an intense discussion of abusive head trauma in terms of risk factors, clinical and historical indicators, physical findings, and prevention. Learners will also have the opportunity to work through abusive head trauma case studies.

Presented by Kristin Critchon, DO and Gail Hornor, DNP, CPNP, SANE-P