A forensic nurse examiner program has recently expanded at Carilion Rockbridge Community Hospital in Lexington – joining four hospitals in Rocky Mount, Roanoke, the New River Valley and Giles.

In nursing school, Norah Lusk already knew she wanted to work with sexual assault survivors. She had seen how this part of the health care system was “sorely lacking” through victim-blaming, long wait ...

A Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) is a registered nurse who has specialized education and clinical preparation in the ...

Survivors of sexual assault in rural communities often struggle to access specialized care. New research from The University ...

On August 18, 2021, Dr. Sean Dugan sent out a letter to his colleagues. He practices medicine in Redding, which had just reported its highest rates of COVID hospitalizations yet. His message began ...

As a resident, David Yang took care of numerous survivors of sexual assault in the emergency department (ED). Often, he would ...

CARBONDALE, Pa. — Nurses from hospitals and medical facilities gathered Tuesday at the Hotel Anthracite in Carbondale. They're here for Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) training to learn how to ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The young womanwho walked into an emergency room in Milwaukee began her journey about 12 hours earlier, at a Chicago-area hospital, more than 90 miles away. She had been raped, ...

On the ground floor of Greater Baltimore Medical Center, behind several locked doors — each monitored by a security camera, is a place where people come on what might be the worst day of their lives.

Feb. 25—A woman wakes, disoriented and in pain, with no memory of the night before after going out for drinks and dancing with a female friend and a man she thought she could trust. After piecing ...

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - A nurse at St. Joseph Hospital in Bangor has been honored for her work as a Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner. Keri Kapaldo is a nurse at St. Joseph Hospital in Bangor. After ...