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Module 4: Consent & History

Here we discuss issues in obtaining informed consent for treatment and evidence collection, as well as the medical and sexual assault history considerations.

Although there are variations across police forces you can see samples from the RCMP Kit documentation:

consent-2015

pg1-history-2015

pg2-interview-2015

 

Catherine Carter-Snell
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Catherine Carter-Snell is an experienced educator, researcher and registered nurse. Her background includes many years of trauma nursing in Emergency, ICU and flight nursing, as well as work with sexual assault/domestic violence examinations and training. She holds a PhD in nursing and international certification as a sexual assault nurse examiner. Her research is focused on physical and psychological effects of interpersonal violence, especially injuries and improving health care services for victims. She has also developed many educational programs for professionals on dating violence and sexual assault issues including a certificate program in forensic studies for professionals.