ENA Stance on Forensic Evidence Collection
Posted by: TheForensicNurse in Forensic Nurse Training, Forensic Nursing Terms, Sexual Assaults, tags: Emergency Nurses Association, ENA, Evidence Collection.Most forensic nurses, work out of an emergency room setting or in a freestanding clinic. The Emergency Nurses Association, or ENA published an official statement on their stance of forensic evidence collection by nurses in the emergency room setting for Victims of sexual assault, child maltreatment, elder abuse and other violent incidents are often brought to the emergency department (ED) for care.
ASSOCIATION POSITION
· ENA believes that it is the emergency nurse’s role not only to provide physical and emotional
care to patients, but also to help preserve the evidence collected in the emergency department.
· ENA supports collaboration with emergency physicians, social service, and law enforcement
personnel to develop guidelines for forensic evidence collection and documentation in the
emergency care setting.
· ENA encourages emergency nurses to become familiar with the concepts and skills of
evidence collection, photographic and written documentation, as well as testifying in legal
proceedings.
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