SANE: Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner: Pediatric Focus
University of Pennslyvania
Philadelphia PA 19104
Phone: (215) 898-4522
Website: www.nursing.upenn.edu
Date: 2007-05-02 00:00:00.0
Duration: 3 Days
Sponsor: University of Pennslyvania
Sponsor URL: http://www.nursing.upenn.edu/ce/programs/detail.asp?t=1&id=422

Description:
Course Details not currently available. See Website for more information

ONLINE SANE TRAINING PROGRAM (ADULT)
ONLINE
Pittsburg PA
Phone: (412) 396-5203
Website: www.nursing.duq.edu/events.html
Date: 2007-01-22 00:00:00.0
Duration: 1 Days
Sponsor: Duquesne University School of Nursing
Sponsor URL: www.nursing.duq.edu/events.html

Description:

Event Type: SANE Adolescent / Adult

The Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) course provides interested nurses with the information and skills to properly care for victims of assault (both physical and sexual) by recognizing, collecting and preserving evidence, interviewing the patient, and linking them to vital community resources for follow-up. All nurses are invited. This course, taught by experts in the areas of forensic nursing, law enforcement and criminal prosecution, emphasizes victim advocacy and the overall importance of being a member of the interdisciplinary Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) in the investigative, health care and prosecution processes.

The Science and Law of Investigating Mass Disasters
900 Locust Street
Pittsburg PA 15282
Phone: 412-396-1330
Website: www.forensics.duq.edu
Date: 2007-03-29 00:00:00.0
Duration: 3 Days
Sponsor: Duquesne University
Sponsor URL: www.forensics.duq.edu

Description:
In keeping with an annual tradition of convening the nations premier forensic scientific, legal and public policy experts to offer education and training to a broad-based professional audience on a timely and critical societal theme, the Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law and the Duquesne University School of Law will host a national conference exploring the vital roles of forensic science and the law in mass disaster response. The program is being cosponsored by the American Academy of Disaster Medicine, the Allegheny County Medical Examiners Office and the Allegheny County Health Department. Casting a broad net over natural disasters, structural and mechanical failures and acts of terrorism, the objective of the conference is to provide first responders, forensic investigators, attorneys, physicians, nurses and policy makers with a better understanding not only of how to determine the root causes of such incidents, but also how future such incidents may be prevented or ameliorated based upon this expanded body of knowledge