Jaclyn Rodriguez is the SANE Coordinator for the Office of the Illinois Attorney General. She achieved a Bachelor's of Science Degree is Biomedical Engineering from the University of Illinois in 2002 and a Bachelor's of Science in Nursing from Loyola University Chicago in 2003. She has practiced as an Emergency Room Nurse in the Chicagoland area since 2003. Jaclyn is employed by the Illinois Attorney General's Office as the SANE Coordinator, at Elmhurst Memorial Hospital as an on-call SANE and works registry ER nursing shifts. Her role as the SANE Coordinator is to provide training, outreach, and support services to healthcare providers, law enforcement, advocates, State's Attorney's and others throughout the State of Illinois. Since being employed as the SANE Coordinator in 2015, she has provided education to over 8,000 individuals in the State of Illinois and nationally. She has been instrumental in helping to craft legislation that is shaping the care for sexual assault patients in the State of Illinois. Tamara Jackson works in Chicago, Illinois, serving her community as the Regional SANE Clinical Programs Coordinator, the SANE EMS Coordinator, a Clinical Instructor, a SANE/RN II, an RN Staff Nurse, and an RN Case Manager. Tamara has earned both a Bachelor and a Master of Science in Nursing degree at Chamberlain College of Nursing and holds a license as a Registered Nurse, an Emergency Communications Registered Nurse, and a Practical Nurse. She has a multitude of certifications, from a Board-certified Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner - Adult/Adolescent and Pediatric Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner to a certification from the Neonatal Resuscitation Program and Crisis Prevention Intervention. Tamara continues to expand her education and professional development by taking courses and attending conferences on topics such as Community Training on Human Trafficking, Gender Bias in Sexual Assault Response, Forensic Evaluation of Gunshot, and the International Conference on Forensic Nursing. Laura Albee is an Emergency Medicine Staff Physician and the Medical Director of Forensic Nursing Program at Nebraska Methodist Health System in Omaha, Nebraska. Laura graduated with a Bachelor of Science - Biotechnology in 1999 and her Doctor of Medicine degree in 2005, both at the University of Nebraska in Omaha. In 2008, she graduated from her Emergency Medicine Residency, completed at Michigan State University in Saginaw, MI. Laura belongs to a number of professional organizations including the American College of Emergency Physicians in which she has served as both a board member from 2015-2020 and the president from 2017-2019, the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, and the American Medical Association. Laura's expertise is best displayed through the wide range of professional roles that she has occupied throughout her 16 years of health care experience: an emergency medicine physician, a medical director of forensic nursing, a clinical and an advanced cardiac life support instructor, and even a special deputy sheriff. Laura currently holds a license as an ABEM Board Certified Emergency Physician, a Nebraska Medical License, and a Board of Pharmacy Controlled Substance License.
Providing trauma-informed, evidence-based care to domestic violence survivors involves considering many perspectives from different disciplines and integrating them all into a thorough assessment. Domestic to Interpersonal Violence lays the groundwork for understanding the many facets that are included in building a robust domestic violence assessment practice for clinicians. The comprehensive nature of the text, going all the way into a historical perspective and societal perceptions of domestic violence, shows the amount of care that was taken to ensure a well-rounded approach regarding the nuances and complexities of assessing survivors of domestic violence. Practitioners with all levels of experience will benefit greatly from this workbook! Brenda Ireland, BSN, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P; She/Her/Hers; SANE Coordinator; Pediatric Quality Coordinator; Emergency Department RN; OSF Saint Joseph Medical Center; Bloomington, IL This is a valuable text for anyone who provides care to domestic violence survivors. It covers all aspects of not only care for the victim but also insight into legal matters and how to assure that evidence is not lost or compromised. It provides background into the social and economic aspects of domestic violence and information on how to help survivors navigate these difficult situations. The text highlights best practices and provides practical advice for setting up these practices in the everyday health care setting. Anke Horacek, MD; Emergency Medicine Physician; Omaha, Nebraska Domestic to Interpersonal Violence examines the course of how a domestic relationship becomes intimate partner violence over the lifespan of the victims and the potential impact it can have along the way. From pregnancy to fatality, domestic violence can impact women and the children who witness or experience domestic violence in the home by child maltreatment and intergenerational transmission of violence. The impact to the victims can include contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs), sexual assault, suicide, substance abuse, and other mental health deterioration such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and eating disorders. In the extreme forms, it leads to strangulation, head injuries, and eventually death. This volume highlights these dangers along with risk factors to intimate partner violence and barriers the victims face. Each chapter gives ways to intervene in hopes of changing the course of outcome for the women, children, and men living in their world of chaos and fear. Tracie L. Nicolai, PhD, EdD; Nationally Certified School Psychologist