General Forensic & Legal

Creating an Anonymous Standard in Sexual Assault (Code 46)

Primary Presenter(s)

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  Ellen Kennedy, BSN, RN

  SANE Coordinator
  Prisma Health-Upstate
  Greenville, South Carolina

Co-Presenter(s)

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  Cassie Mueller, MSN, RN, PCCN, CNML

  Nurse Manager
  Prisma Health-Upstate / Greenville Memorial Hospital
  Easley, South Carolina
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  Jessica Hobbs, DO

  Medical Director, Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner Program
  Prisma Health—Upstate
  Greenville, South Carolina
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  Greg Hair, MS, BSN, RN

  Director of Emergency Services
  Prisma Health-Upstate
  Greenville, South Carolina

Learn how a healthcare system's multidisciplinary partners created an anonymous standard to protect patients who had experienced sexual assault.

Learning Outcome(s). Increased knowledge about:

• how to identify areas of opportunity in an anonymous reporting process or policy.
• implementing standards of care and reporting of anonymous sexual assault kits.
• collaborating with multi-hospital community partners in a multi-county system and with multidisciplinary partners within a hospital setting.