Beth Andrews-Arce, left, and Sharita Godwin, center, role play through an examination during sexual assault nurse examiner training at Fayetteville State University on Dec. 2.FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — The hospital where Sharita Godwin works in central North Carolina doesn’t have any Black nurses trained in administering forensic exams to sexual assault victims.
“What Fayetteville State is doing is critically important and a huge step,” Pierce-Weeks said, “because I feel like nursing in general is struggling with this.” Cannon, who is Black, said that before she worked at Fayetteville State she was a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, and some of her psychotherapy patients were victims of sexual abuse or molestation.
On the first day of clinical training, the students practiced what they had learned in the classroom by doing exams on forensic teaching associates, who served as both models and teachers as the nurses asked them for consent to collect evidence from their bodies, look for injuries and practice speculum insertions. An exam can take up to six hours — and perhaps double that if a nurse isn’t trained and is reading the instructions of a rape kit for the first time.
Each student will be assigned an experienced sexual assault nurse examiner as a mentor. The program will also pay for each student to sit for an exam within about two years for an official certification through the International Association of Forensic Nurses. Before they can earn that credential, they must perform exams on two sexual assault patients.
NBCBLK Will they be hiring Hispanic sexual assault nurses? What about native American? Chinese? Korean? Japanese? Brazilian? Portuguese?
NBCBLK You want to end racism? Stop making everything about race its not rocket science.
NBCBLK there are literally millions of black nurses, pretty sure they all know how to conduct a rape kit but go ahead, keep them drenched in victimhood
NBCBLK The Klan approves. 🤦🏽♂️
NBCBLK Racist Propaganda, because February just isn't enough anymore...😨
NBCBLK Please bring back segregation. Whites can go back to higher standards.
NBCBLK How many jobs is a minority group supposed to have in this country?! They can only do so much.
NBCBLK We just need good nurses, regardless of their skin color.
NBCBLK Evening news is not reporting the truth about Twitter and Facebook silencing the biggest scandal in the history of the USA. CORRUPT NEWS ORGANIZATION. What happened to our country…
NBCBLK How can we best spread division today? How about a headline about the unequal amount of black sexual assault workers? Nah that’s too obscure… damn that’s all we got today though - roll with it
NBCBLK NBC News I'll defend your 1st amendment right to a free press if you'll defend my 1st amendment right to free speech!
NBCBLK Oh so the white nurses are all racist and don’t report correctly. Should just fire all white people.
NBCBLK Honestly, it would be better to just have more nurses who just have a specialty in that field since blue cities are just letting rapes happen.
NBCBLK I think we need to make it mandatory for all companies to hire 50% minorities. Shouldn’t matter the size of the company. 50% should all be minorities. Imagine if we made that a federal law JoeBiden
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