On June 28, 2021, CPR Director Isle Polonko’s article “Planning and implementation of the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner course to assist victims of sexual violence: an experience report” was published in The University of São Paulo Nursing School Journal [Portugese: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP, abbreviated as REEUSP]. The article was co-authored by […]
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This week, the Association of Standardized Patient Educators (ASPE) will host their 20th Annual Conference, on a virtual platform, from Sunday, June 27th to Wednesday, June 30th. Featured as part of this program are two presentations by Clinical Practice Resources (CPR)’s Richard Claflin (Director and Lead MUTA Trainer) and Isle Polonko (Executive Director). The abstracts […]
This week, August 5th through the 9th, the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais in Brazil in conjunction with SOBEF, the Brazilian Society of Forensic Nursing is to host their first conference on forensic nursing. It is an honor for Ms. Polonko to have been asked to speak on the use of Gynecologic Teaching Associates […]
In May of 2019, Isle Polonko, Executive Director of Clinical Practice Resources for Training and Education, traveled to Aracaju, Brazil with colleague and SANE Program Director, Eileen Allen. The purpose of the trip was to set up the first ever Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program and the first ever Forensic Gynecologic Teaching Associate Program in […]
GTA work has been utilized in Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) training for many years to instruct and review the components of the pelvic examination necessary to complete the sexual assault forensic evidence collection kit on a sexual assault survivor. However, in the past several years, the specialized skills of GTAs have been utilized in […]