Cari Caruso RN SANE-A...
...has been a Registered Nurse since 1974. Her background in nursing includes Pediatrics, Women's Health, Emergency Department Nursing, GI Lab and Post Surgical Care. She developed her interest in Forensic Nursing in 1990, when she began conducting evidentiary examinations on victims of sexual assault and molestation, while working in a pediatric emergency department at a Los Angeles County Hospital. Her fascination with this new specialty sparked a desire to further her education regarding the protocols and procedures for the collection of evidence, from victims and suspects of sexual assault.
The International Association of Forensic Nurses emerged in 1992 as the only organization for the many specialties for forensic nurses. Cari became a Charter Member in 1993. She serves as the Southern California Regional Representative (Emeritus) and is a retired Senior Co-Chair of the SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner) Council. She serves on committees to develop educational guidelines and standards for forensic nurses.
Cari continues to increase her knowledge and education, in the field of forensics, by attending several conferences, courses and seminars, every year. She completed the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Course in 1993, the Miami-Dade Death Investigator Course in 1997 and has taught other nurses the detailed process of SANE practice. She has been a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner in the Violence Intervention Program at Los Angeles County, University of Southern California Medical Center, California Hospital, Mission Community Hospital and established a new SANE Program at San Gabriel Valley Medical Center, in 2000. Having built that program from the ground up, creating Policies and Procedures and protocols according to the highest Standards of Care, Cari moved on to establish her own independent forensic center in 2003; Forensic Nurse Professionals, where she continues to conduct forensic evidentiary exams, on reported victims and suspects of sexual assault, at the request of law enforcement agencies. She provides a variety of forensic services and has increased her role as a consultant.
In 2002 the first Certification Examination was developed by the Forensic Nursing Certification Board and Cari was one of the first Forensic Nurses, in the United States, to become a Board Certified Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner for Adults and Adolescents.
Cari was published in the 2005 textbook, by Virginia Lynch with Janet Barber Duval, called, Forensic Nursing, Elsevier/Mosby, with her chapter on, "Testifying for the Forensic Nurse." She is also the instructor of a Sexual Assault Examiner course, for the University of California, Riverside, Extension.
Cari is proud of her dedication to forensic nursing and her ability to maintain objectivity, promote dignity, integrity and ethics in her work.
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Cari Caruso RN SANE-A
Forensic Nurse Professionals, Inc.
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The International Association of Forensic Nurses
This site is dedicated to the International Association of Forensic Nurses and the Forensic Nurse Examiners who embrace the relationship of nursing with the law to promote justice and fairness for those who have been affected by violent crime.
http://www.iafn.org
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Forensic Nurse Professionals
Pasadena, California
626 796-3312
fnpi@sbcglobal.net
Dignity, Integrity, Ethics
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