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Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Didactic Course

  • IU Health Ruth Lilly Health Education Center 2055 North Senate Avenue Indianapolis, IN, 46202 United States (map)

Spring 2025 dates: April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, and May 7, 2025

Will meet in person from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. for this six-week course

IU Health Ruth Lilly Health Education Center, 2055 N. Senate Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46202

Registration Deadline: March 10

This 40+ hour didactic course will focus on sexual assault nurse examiner training for adolescent and adult patients.

The course is taught by experts in their respective fields, including actively practicing expert Forensic SANE RNs and APNs, victim advocates, detectives, prosecutors, a toxicologist, crime lab scientists, child and adult protection services, resilience coaching, and more.

This course is the first step in preparing for practice as a forensic nurse. The next step is to meet the clinical requirements to practice as a forensic nurse. The combination of completing this didactic course, plus completion of the clinical requirements, qualifies you to begin providing forensic nursing care. This is not a certification course. Certification requires two years of practice, as well as successfully passing a certification exam.