RN Sane Trainee - As Needed

Work location: Travel across entities as needed

Work hours: PRN – as needed

SANE Department highlights:

• Work Environment: Mobile Sexual Assault Unit that travels to provide medical forensic exams at the following entities: THAL, THAM, THAZ, THC, THD, THDN, THHEB, THK, THFW, & THSW.

• Provide sexual assault medical forensic exams to the adolescent and adult populations

• Assist an administrative duties as assigned when not at the bedside.

• Opportunities to provide staff, community, and stakeholder education about sexual violence

• Opportunities for educational and career growth

Here’s What You Need

• Associate’s Degree in Nursing required and

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing preferred

• 40 hour adult/adolescent sexual assault examiner course preferred (meeting the minimum Texas Office of the Attorney General’s SANE Education requirements)

• 2 years as a clinical nurse required

• RN upon hire required and

• BCLS – prior to providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly required

• SANE within 12 months of hire required and

What You Will Do

Trainee will prepare to become an Office of the Attorney General (OAG) certified Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE); once TX OAG SANE certification is achieved will transfer from Trainee position to a SANE PRN II or SANE PRN III position. Training to achieve OAG SANE Certification includes completing didactic and clinical within one year of beginning training as per the signed SANE Education Agreement. Once certified will maintain certification minimum of two years. Renewal every two years requires ongoing clinical and continuing education.

Travel required - Texas Health SANE Program responds to the following wholly owned entities in two divisions:

NE: Texas Health Dallas (primary hub), Texas Health Denton, and Texas Health Kaufman.

SW: Texas Health Fort Worth (primary hub), Texas Health Alliance, Texas Health Arlington Memorial, Texas Health Azle, Texas Health Cleburne, Texas Health HEB, and Texas Health Southwest.

Texas Health Stephenville and Texas Health Cleburne have a separate on call group at times.

• Achieve OAG SANE Certification to include completing didactic and clinical within one year of beginning training as per the signed SANE Education Agreement. Once certified will maintain certification. Renewal every two years requires ongoing clinical and continuing education.

• Perform a complete sexual assault medical forensic examination including obtaining a medical history for the purpose of treatment, detailed head-to-toe assessment for trauma to include all body orifices and forensic specimen collection as indicated by history or examination findings; documentation to possibly include photography

• Develop expertise and knowledge in performing medical forensic sexual assault exams to include but not limited to forensic science, trauma and related issues, legal case law and statutes, evidence collection procedures and emerging trends

• Participates in professional development including staff meetings, in-services, and county, state or national levels of peer review as determined by the SANE Program leadership.

• Maintain professional standards that do not create conflict of interest with employment or patient care, including patient and medical record confidentiality 7 or less bullet points

• Maintain all Human Resource requirements for continued employment in a timely manner, such as but not limited to, licensure, annual employee health assessment, annual MyTalent modules and CheckIn evaluations.

Additional perks of being a Texas Health employee

• Delivery of high quality of patient care through nursing education, nursing research and innovations in nursing practice.

• Strong Unit Based Council (UBC).

• A supportive, team environment with outstanding opportunities for growth.

Entity Highlights:

At Texas Health Resources, our mission is “to improve the health of the people in the communities we serve”.

We are one of the largest faith-based, nonprofit health systems in the United States with a team of more than 23,000 employees of wholly owned/operated facilities plus 2,200 employees of consolidated joint ventures in the greater Dallas Fort Worth area. Our career growth and professional development opportunities are top-notch and our benefits are equally outstanding.

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Do you still have questions or concerns? Feel free to email your questions to recruitment@texashealth.org .

Texas Health requires a resume when an application is submitted.Employment opportunities are only reflective of wholly owned Texas Health Resources entities.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employees or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.