Enhance your knowledge and skills with evidence-based, comprehensive content emphasizing evidence-based medical-forensic exam procedures.
All simulations and scenarios you engage in — both online and on-site — are built on real-world experiences. All showcase the primary sexual assault issues, problems and challenges you may typically confront.
To help you best solve each scenario or challenge, the program provides you with the best practices and approaches used today by your peers throughout the country.
Polish your professional expertise by practicing the best practices for patient-centered care.
Pressed for time? No problem. You can complete your online coursework at your convenience and your own pace.
There Are 6 Courses in the Adult/Adolescent SANE / SAFE / SAMFE Online Curriculum
All courses are required. Only Course 2 is scored.
Course 1: Building a SART
Become familiar with the SART and how the SART and SANE models have developed. Learn how a SART benefits the patient and the reporting, investigation and prosecution of sexual assault.
Lesson 1 : Crime and Justice
Challenge 1: Crime and Justice
Challenge 2: Building Your SART
Challenge 3: Know Your Role
Lesson 2: SART in Action
Challenge 1: Law Enforcement and Sexual Assault
Challenge 2: The Victim Advocate and Sexual Assault
Challenge 3: The SANE and Sexual Assault
Challenge 4: The Crime Lab and Sexual Assault
Challenge 5: The Prosecutor and Sexual Assault
SART Webinar
Presenter: Dr. Linda Ledray —Introduction to the SART Concept
Webinar Handout
Course 2: Preparation and Refresher
As an RN interested in becoming a SANE, a SANE seeking a refresher, an MD, APRN, SAFE or SAMFE. you’ll learn the SANE’s responsibilities and tasks in caring for the patient. The topics covered include the tools, procedures and techniques you will use to conduct the medical-forensic sexual assault exam, how to identify, collect and preserve evidence, as well as how to perform as an expert witness in a sexual assault trial.
After completing each lesson, you’ll view a webinar featuring a subject matter expert who builds on the topics covered in the preceding lesson. There are a total of eight webinars. A handout provided by the subject matter expert will be available for download after you view each webinar.
Lesson 1: The Medical-Forensic Exam: Part 1
Challenge 1: Snapshot!
Challenge 2: The Evidence Collection Kit
Challenge 3: Findings of Evidence
Lesson 2: The Medical-Forensic Exam: Part 2
Challenge 1: Basic Principles
Challenge 2: Obtaining Patient Consent
Webinar 2
Presenter: Patricia Frazier, Ph.D. —Research on Victim Behaviors
Webinar 2 Handouts
Lesson 3: Patient Medical History, Physical Exam and Evidence Collection
Challenge 1: Patient General Information
Challenge 2: Clothing Inspection and Collection
Challenge 3: Upper Body Exam
Webinar 3
Presenter: Jim Markey —Investigating Sexual Assault
Webinar 3 Handout
Lesson 4: Pelvic/Genital Examination
Challenge 1: Pelvic/Genital Anatomy
Challenge 2: Pelvic/Genital Exam
Webinar 4
Presenter: Diana Faugno —Injury Identification and Documentation
Webinar 4 Handouts
Lesson 5: Wrapping Up the Exam
Challenge 1: STI Evaluation and Care
Challenge 2: Pregnancy Risk Evaluation and Care
Challenge 3: Patient Discharge and Follow-Up
Webinar 5
Presenter: Heather DeVore, M.D. —STIs and EC Treatment Recommendations; HIV
Webinar 5 Handouts
Lesson 6: Community Issues and Dynamics
Challenge 1: Will She, or Won’t She Report?
Webinar 6A: Rural Issues
Presenter: Nancy Hoffman, M.A., LPC, CSW —Sexual Assault in Rural Areas
Webinar 6A Handout
Webinar 6B: Tribal Issues
Presenter: Victoria Ybanez —Cultural and Tribal Issues
Webinar 6B Handout
Lesson 7: Crime Lab Requirements
Challenge 1: Evidence Collection Timing and Integrity
Webinar 7
Presenter: Anjali A. Ranadive, MFS, JD —DNA and the Role of the Crime Lab
Webinar 7 Handout
Lesson 8: The SANE and Sexual Assault Prosecution
Challenge 1: Trial Preparation
Webinar 8
Presenters: Patti Powers, J.D. and Robert Laurino, J.D. —SANE Trial and Testimony Preparation
Webinar 8 Handout
Course 3: Sexual Assault Evidentiary Exam Procedures
This series of detailed demonstration videos will interest RNs, SANEs and candidates for the IAFN SANE-A® certification program by the IAFN’s Commission on Forensic Nursing Certification who want to learn best practices in performing a variety of evidentiary procedures during the medical-forensic exam.
Course Video Library
1. Advocate Crisis Intervention with Victim
2. Law Enforcement Interview with Victim
3. Discussing Patient Options and Obtaining Consent
4. Obtaining Patient Medical History (Part 1)
5. Obtaining Patient Medical History (Part 2)
6. Discussing EC Options and STIs with Patient
7. Collecting, Labeling and Sealing Patient Clothing
8. Collecting, Labeling and Sealing Patient Urine Sample
9. Blood Draw
10. Finger Prick Option for Blood Collection
11. Upper Body Head-to-Toe Exam (Complete)
11A. Fingernail Swabbing Technique / 11B. Bite Mark Inspection and Swabbing Technique / 11C. Alternate Light Source Use and Swabbing Technique / 11D. Skin Swabbing Technique
12. Lower Body Head-to-Toe Exam (Complete)
12A. Pubic Hair Combing / 12B. External Genital Injury Inspection and Swab / 12C. Speculum / 12D. Anal Inspection and Swabbing
Course 4: SART Member Interviews
This series of interviews will be of interest to new and prospective SART members who want to learn from the experts: a SANE, law enforcement officers, victim advocates, prosecutors and a DNA specialist. Each interviewee shares perspective on the importance of a victim-centered response, holding offenders accountable, and helping prevent sexual violence. The interviews were recorded at the Sixth National SART Training Conference in Austin, Texas.
Course Video Library
1. SART Member Interviews
2. Advocate Crisis Intervention with Victim
3. Advocate-Victim Follow-Up Meeting
4. Law Enforcement 911 Response Victim Interview
5. Law Enforcement Interview with Victim
6. Law Enforcement Interview with Suspect
Course 5: SART Meeting, Kearney, NE
Members of the Kearney, Neb., SART gather regularly for an update meeting. They discuss their challenges and the process of working together to seek justice for victims. As a result of their efforts, this small community has seen an increase in sexual assault reporting and successful prosecutions.
Course 6: Break the Silence: Sexual Assault and the SART Solution
SART members in rural and Native American communities, as well as those served by the SART, share their experiences about the severity, complexity and impact of sexual assault, and the power of a SART to care for and seek justice for victims.
Use Break the Silence as a SART awareness tool in your community
Contact us at [email protected] and we’ll show you how to download the video or share a link to the video with others.
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- Tuition: $600
- Active Military: $200
- Students: $250
- CE credits: 40