A Needs Assessment and Educational Intervention Addressing the Care of Sexual Assault Patients in the Emergency Department.

ABSTRACT: Emergency department (ED) providers serve as the primary point-of-contact for many survivors of sexual assault but are often ill-prepared to address their unique treatment needs. Sexual assault nurse examiners (SANEs) are therefore an important resource for training other ED providers. The objective of this project was to create a SANE-led educational intervention addressing this training gap. We achieved this objective by (a) conducting a needs assessment of ED providers' self-reported knowledge of, and comfort with, sexual assault patient care at an urban academic adult ED and, (b) using these results to create and implement a SANE-led educational intervention to improve emergency medicine residents' ability to provide sexual assault patient care. From the needs assessment survey, ED pro

SUBMITTER: Chandramani A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7868113 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr/Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature