Educational Objectives:

1. Identify at least one practice change in the assessment of a patient who has experienced IPV.
2. State at least one best practice guideline for treatment of a patient who has experienced strangulation.
3. Describe at least one step that should be taken when developing an IPV Examiner course.

Presenter(s):

Priscilla M. Simms-Roberson, DNP, APRN, NP-C, SANE-A, Assistant Professor ofNursing at theUniversity of Tennessee at Chattanooga; SANE Coordinator, Rape Crisis Center, Partnership for Families, Children and Adults

Dr. Simms-Roberson is licensed as an Adult Nurse Practitioner in the state of Tennessee and certified as a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE-A) through the International Association of Forensic Nursing. She received a Doctorate in Nursing Practice at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 2016 and a Master’s of Science in Nursing at Vanderbilt University in 2006. Dr. Simms-Roberson has worked as an adult nurse practitioner in many different healthcare settings including primary care, community health, home health, forensics, psych, and long term care. While attending Vanderbilt, Dr. Simms-Roberson specialized in forensic nursing and began work as a sexual assault nurse examiner at the Memphis Sexual Assault Resource Center in Memphis, TN. Dr. Simms-Roberson completed SANE-A training in 2006 and Intimate Partner Violence Examiner training in 2017. Since 2005, she has been providing forensic medical exams to victims of sexual assault and, more recently, victims of domestic violence. Currently, Dr. Simms-Roberson is teaching in the MSN program at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and is the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Coordinator at Partnership for Families, Children and Adults in Chattanooga, TN. She recently developed an online Introduction to Forensic Nursing course available as an elective to undergraduate and graduate students. Dr. Simms-Roberson has presented at multiple national and international conferences. Her interests lie in projects and research that encourage healthcare quality improvement and the translation of evidence into practice. In 2017, Dr. Simms-Roberson was elected as a Commissioner for the Commission on Forensic Nursing Certification and President of her local Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society chapter. She is also a member of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, International Association of Forensic Nurses, National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, and her local Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) and Domestic Assault Response Team (DART).

Christine N. Foote-Lucero, MSN, RN, CEN, SANE-A, SANE-P

Christine Foote-Lucero has been a licensed Registered Nurse in Colorado for 17 years, with a focus on critical care. She received a Bachelors of Science in Nursing at Creighton University in 2002 and a Masters of Science in Forensic Nursing in 2019. For the past decade, she has worked as a Forensic Nurse Examiner (FNE). She currently manages the FNE team at the University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) in Aurora, CO where she developed a robust FNE orientation program as well as education and training for on-going FNE performance based competencies, clinical skills exemplars, and high fidelity simulations. She has also created a Strangulation Pathway at UCH that serves as a clinical practice guideline for Emergency Providers. Her clinical experiences as a forensic nurse have included death investigation and correctional nursing, as well as sexual assault, intimate partner violence, physical assault, strangulation, elder abuse, child abuse, and human trafficking.

She is board certified as a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner for Adults, Adolescents, and Pediatrics. In addition, she is a board certified Emergency Nurse. She has worked in Professional Nursing Development and is a certified instructor for the Emergency Nurse’s Association, teaching ENPC and TNCC, as well as a guest lecturer for the Denver College of Nursing. She has presented at both state and national conferences on a variety of forensic and trauma topics. She is a member of International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN), local Sexual Assault Response Teams (SART), local Human Trafficking Task Force, Emergency Nurses Association, American Nurses Association, Academy of Forensic Nurses, and the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants. She is also serves as the secretary for the CO State IAFN Chapter and was formerly the Member-At-Large.

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Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest:

The faculty reported the following financial relationships or relationships to products or devices they or their spouse/life partner have with commercial interests related to the content of this CME activity:

The planners and managers reported the following financial relationships or relationships to products or devices they or their spouse/life partner have with commercial interests related to the content of this CME activity:

The following PIM planners and managers, Trace Hutchison, PharmD, Samantha Mattiucci, PharmD, CHCP, Judi Smelker-Mitchek, MBA, MSN, RN and Jan Schultz, MSN, RN, CHCP hereby state that they or their spouse/life partner do not have any financial relationships or relationships to products or devices with any commercial interest related to the content of this activity of any amount during the past 12 months.

The following International Association of Forensic Nurses planners and managers, Kim Day, RN, FNE A/P, SANE-A, SANE-P and Bonnie Barsa, BS hereby state that they or their spouse/life partner do not have any financial relationships or relationships to products or devices with any commercial interest related to the content of this activity of any amount during the past 12 months

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