11/14/2025
✨Last Monday for our Community Health Class, we had a TEAMS guest speaker, Chelsea Hassell, from the Forensic Nursing Department at MultiCare in Washington. She has extensive experience in Forensic Nursing, especially the role of a SANE nurse.
Chelsea explained different areas of forensic nursing, including definitions, some statistics, root causes of sexual assaults/IPV/trafficking, and symptoms a nurse may see in the ED and their area of practice, the different exams/reporting that is available for the person who was assaulted, including the importance of trauma-informed care.