Target Audience:
This activity has been designed to meet the educational needs of medical and behavioral health professionals involved in the care of victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.
Program Overview:
This webinar presentation will provide education in utilizing the Danger Assessment (a tool originally developed by Dr. Jacquelyn Campbell) as part of medical forensic care for the patient who has experienced Intimate Partner Violence. The discussion will include the prevalence of IPV and associated lethality, and identify appropriate components of a medical forensicexam for the IPV patient.
Technical Requirements:
This webinar requires a computer with:
Supported Operating Systems:
- Windows: XP (Service Pack 3), Vista, 7, 8, & 10 (32 & 64 bit)
- Mac: OSX 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, and 10.11 (For access to all features, presenters must be on Mac OSX 10.8+)
- Linux: 2.6+ kernel; 64 bit; x86 CPU required
Supported Browsers:
- Internet Explorer: 7+
- Firefox: 31+
- Google Chrome
- Safari: 5.0+
Required Plugins:
- Adobe Flash 11+
Presenter(s):
Kim Nash, BSN, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P
Forensic Nursing Specialist,International Association of Forensic Nurses
Kimberly Nash BSN, SANE-A, SANE-P is a Forensic Nursing Specialist for the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) since May 2017, providing medical forensic training and technical assistance. She earned her BSN from Regis University in 1998 and became a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner in 2006. Dual board certified as a SANE-A and a SANE-P, she has been part of a team of forensic nurses since 2006 at Memorial Hospital, University of Colorado Health in Colorado Springs, Colorado who provide medical forensic care to more than 1800 patients per year who are victims of violence (sexual assault, intimate partner violence, child abuse, elder abuse, strangulation, human trafficking). She served on the Board of Directors for the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) 2012-2014, and is a Past President of the Colorado Chapter of IAFN. Additionally, she provides clinical skills training through Memorial Hospital’s Simulation Laboratory, utilizing live models and teaching sexual assault care to providers from across the US, with a special emphasis on those working in rural or underserved areas. In 2012, she served as an international consultant for a USAID project in Swaziland, Africa, mentoring local health care professionals in the care of pediatric rape patients with an emphasis on the prevention of HIV. Ms. Nash was involved as the medical consultant for the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) for a project addressing the response to sexual gender based violence in Egypt and in August 2015 and October 2016 she traveled to Cairo to teach. She was involved with a similar international project (2017) with the IAFN and IACP addressing organized crime and gender-based violence in Mexico. Ms Nash has extensive experience providing training to various disciplines on sexual violence across the lifespan, intimate partner violence, child abuse, elder abuse, strangulation and human trafficking.