Full course description
Course Objectives:
- Identify interventions that facilitate emotional stabilization of the victim during the sexual assault examination.
- Provide appropriate care to victims of sexual assault, including attention to physical, psychosocial, and medicolegal needs.
- Identify the role of the rape advocate.
- Identify the role of law enforcement.
- Identify appropriate interview and documentation. techniques during the sexual assault examination.
- Define the Rape Trauma Syndrome.
- Describe proper techniques for collection of evidence in sexual assault cases.
- Discuss legal and ethical responsibilities in providing care to sexual assault victims.
- Demonstrate proper use of camera and photography in sexual assault examinations.
- Describe modes of sexual trauma in adolescent and adult victims.
- Describe appropriate trial preparation and guidelines for testimony.
- Identify differences in the child examination.
*Online course with optional two-day clinical session
Registrants must meet these qualifications:
Have a license as a Registered Nurse.
For questions concerning eligibility, contact Kathy Bell at kathy.bell@okstate.edu or 918-596-7608.
Approved by the California Board of Nursing for 55 classroom hours, CEP 15357