SANE-A CERTIFICATION EXAM STUDY
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1. Standards of forensic nursing practice - ANSWER ✔ 1. Assessment
Diagnosis
Outcomes identification
Planning
Implementation - a. Coordination of care, b. Health teaching and health
promotion
Evaluation
2. Forensic nursing standards of professional performance - ANSWER ✔ 1.
Ethics
2. Culturally congruent practice
3. Communication
4. Collaboration
5. Leadership
6. Education
7. Evidence-based practice and research
8. Quality of practice
9. Professional practice evaluation
10. Resource utilization
11. Environmental health
3. Stages of grooming - ANSWER ✔ 1. Identify a victim
2. Increase role in victim's life
3. Make assurance of power difference
, 4. Gain trust
5. Establish secrecy
6. Isolate
7. Slowly introduce nonsexual to sexual touch
4. Four categories of evidence - ANSWER ✔ Physical: can be detected with
the five senses to establish a fact directly or through inference
Documentary: evidence that is written, recorded, or taped
Demonstrative: can be demonstrated through mock-ups, or models
Testimonial: evidence about something that is said, heard, seen, or know
5. Alternate light source - ANSWER ✔ A blue light with an orange barrier
filter is the best combination for detecting evidence.
6. Consent for medical treatment - ANSWER ✔ General medical care
Pregnancy testing and prophylaxis
STI testing and prophylaxis
Forensic evidence collection
Photography
Permission to contact the patient for medical purposes
Release of medical information
7. Chlamydia signs and symptoms - ANSWER ✔ Most common bacterial STI.
May be asymptomatic.
-abnormal vaginal or urethral discharge
-dysuria
-cervicitis with mucopurulent endocervical discharge
, -edematous cervical ectopy with erythema and fragility
-pain and swelling in one or both testes
-rectal pain, discharge, bleeding
When do you give Hep B post exposure vaccination? - ANSWER ✔ When
the hepatitis status of the assailant is unknown, and the patient has not been
previously vaccinated
8. What does the patient receive if the assailant is known HBsAg positive? -
ANSWER ✔ Give both the hepatitis B vaccine and HBIG
9. If the Hep B vaccine and HBIG are indicated, how often do you give the
shots? - ANSWER ✔ On initial exam, 1-2 months after, and 4-6 months
after
10.What do you give patients who didn't get any post vaccination testing for
Hep B? - ANSWER ✔ Single vaccine booster dose
11.Who gets a post exposure HPV vaccination? - ANSWER ✔ All genders
aged 9-26 who haven't been vaccinated or who are incompletely vaccinated
12.what are patterns of injury - ANSWER ✔ a pattern of assaults resulting in
various injuries in different stages of healing
13.what are defensive injuries? - ANSWER ✔ survivor sustaining injuries in
fighting with the attacker. Commonly on fingers and hands.
*grabbing a knife, resulting in a laceration to the palm
, 14.what is the physical finding mnemonic - ANSWER ✔ B.A.L.D.S.T.E.P
B- bleeding, bruising, bitemarks, burns
A- abrasions, avulsions
L- lacerations
D- deformities, discoloration
S- stains, swelling
T- tenderness, trace evidence
E- erythema
P- penetrating (stab, incised, bullet, patterned, petechiae)
15.what is the rule when taking photographs - ANSWER ✔ *rule of 3
(orientation shot of the patient, injury, and injury with standard)
16.what photographs should you take? - ANSWER ✔ *photograph all sites
regardless of injury
*documents presence/ absence of injury
*document normal variances
*photograph before and during foley technique use
*photograph trace evidence prior to collection
17.True or false: acute medical needs take precedence over evidentiary needs -
ANSWER ✔ true
18.define trauma - ANSWER ✔ an event, series of events, or set of
circumstances that is experienced by individual as physically or emotionally
harmful or life threatening and that has lasting adverse effects on the
individual;s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual
well-being
19.define trauma informed care - ANSWER ✔ Strength-based framework that
recognizes the impact that trauma can have on the well-being of a patient
GUIDE 2026/2027 ACCURATE QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWER ||
100% GUARANTEED PASS
<RECENT VERSION>
1. Standards of forensic nursing practice - ANSWER ✔ 1. Assessment
Diagnosis
Outcomes identification
Planning
Implementation - a. Coordination of care, b. Health teaching and health
promotion
Evaluation
2. Forensic nursing standards of professional performance - ANSWER ✔ 1.
Ethics
2. Culturally congruent practice
3. Communication
4. Collaboration
5. Leadership
6. Education
7. Evidence-based practice and research
8. Quality of practice
9. Professional practice evaluation
10. Resource utilization
11. Environmental health
3. Stages of grooming - ANSWER ✔ 1. Identify a victim
2. Increase role in victim's life
3. Make assurance of power difference
, 4. Gain trust
5. Establish secrecy
6. Isolate
7. Slowly introduce nonsexual to sexual touch
4. Four categories of evidence - ANSWER ✔ Physical: can be detected with
the five senses to establish a fact directly or through inference
Documentary: evidence that is written, recorded, or taped
Demonstrative: can be demonstrated through mock-ups, or models
Testimonial: evidence about something that is said, heard, seen, or know
5. Alternate light source - ANSWER ✔ A blue light with an orange barrier
filter is the best combination for detecting evidence.
6. Consent for medical treatment - ANSWER ✔ General medical care
Pregnancy testing and prophylaxis
STI testing and prophylaxis
Forensic evidence collection
Photography
Permission to contact the patient for medical purposes
Release of medical information
7. Chlamydia signs and symptoms - ANSWER ✔ Most common bacterial STI.
May be asymptomatic.
-abnormal vaginal or urethral discharge
-dysuria
-cervicitis with mucopurulent endocervical discharge
, -edematous cervical ectopy with erythema and fragility
-pain and swelling in one or both testes
-rectal pain, discharge, bleeding
When do you give Hep B post exposure vaccination? - ANSWER ✔ When
the hepatitis status of the assailant is unknown, and the patient has not been
previously vaccinated
8. What does the patient receive if the assailant is known HBsAg positive? -
ANSWER ✔ Give both the hepatitis B vaccine and HBIG
9. If the Hep B vaccine and HBIG are indicated, how often do you give the
shots? - ANSWER ✔ On initial exam, 1-2 months after, and 4-6 months
after
10.What do you give patients who didn't get any post vaccination testing for
Hep B? - ANSWER ✔ Single vaccine booster dose
11.Who gets a post exposure HPV vaccination? - ANSWER ✔ All genders
aged 9-26 who haven't been vaccinated or who are incompletely vaccinated
12.what are patterns of injury - ANSWER ✔ a pattern of assaults resulting in
various injuries in different stages of healing
13.what are defensive injuries? - ANSWER ✔ survivor sustaining injuries in
fighting with the attacker. Commonly on fingers and hands.
*grabbing a knife, resulting in a laceration to the palm
, 14.what is the physical finding mnemonic - ANSWER ✔ B.A.L.D.S.T.E.P
B- bleeding, bruising, bitemarks, burns
A- abrasions, avulsions
L- lacerations
D- deformities, discoloration
S- stains, swelling
T- tenderness, trace evidence
E- erythema
P- penetrating (stab, incised, bullet, patterned, petechiae)
15.what is the rule when taking photographs - ANSWER ✔ *rule of 3
(orientation shot of the patient, injury, and injury with standard)
16.what photographs should you take? - ANSWER ✔ *photograph all sites
regardless of injury
*documents presence/ absence of injury
*document normal variances
*photograph before and during foley technique use
*photograph trace evidence prior to collection
17.True or false: acute medical needs take precedence over evidentiary needs -
ANSWER ✔ true
18.define trauma - ANSWER ✔ an event, series of events, or set of
circumstances that is experienced by individual as physically or emotionally
harmful or life threatening and that has lasting adverse effects on the
individual;s functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional or spiritual
well-being
19.define trauma informed care - ANSWER ✔ Strength-based framework that
recognizes the impact that trauma can have on the well-being of a patient
