SART Program Coordinator RN
Job Location:
Santa Maria, CA - USA
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Job Summary
Founded in 1940 Dignity Health - Marian Regional Medical Center is a 191-bed acute care nonprofit hospital located in Santa Maria California. Serving over 250000 patients annually the hospital offers a full complement of services including Level II Trauma Center Level III NICU cancer care orthopedics and stroke care. Additionally Marian Regional Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center and the only healthcare facility on the Central Coast to offer ECMO.
As our SART Program Coordinator RN you will lead and drive the operations of the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program serving our Santa Barbara County community. You will set the administrative direction of the program while remaining clinically engagedparticipating in the examiner call rotation to care for acute adult adolescent and pediatric patients in the Emergency Department. As a central liaison and dedicated patient/victim advocate you will sustain compassionate continuous communication with physicians patients families community agencies and county partners.
Every day you will deliver comprehensive trauma-informed acute examinations and precise case management grounded in your scope of licensure and regulatory protocols. You will oversee the meticulous timely collection and preservation of forensic evidencemaintaining strict chain of custodyfor law enforcement and future judicial proceedings and you will extend your impact beyond the exam room by providing expert witness testimony in court. You will develop and refine program protocols evaluate outcomes review SANE charts and evidentiary documentation and partner with the District Attorneys SART Coordinator and Santa Barbara County SART Coalition to strengthen coordinated survivor care.
To be successful in this role you will draw on substantial specialized knowledge clinical judgment and advanced skill rooted in the biological physiological behavioral and sociological sciences. You will apply critical thinking to integrate established standards community resources and patient data into rapid accurate care decisions. Your ability to pair clinical expertise with organizational leadership will show up in the way you recruit onboard train and validate the competency of Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners; facilitate quarterly SART education; manage site operations supplies and SART billing with the DAs office; and support annual reporting grant development and community prevention efforts.
What you bring:
- BSN and active RN licensure with three years of staff nursing experience
- Current BLS
- SANE-A and/or SANE-P certification and prior SANE training (preferred)
- Bilingual skills (preferred)
- Knowledge of rape trauma theory medico-legal forensic standards evidence collection and courtroom testimony protocols
Join us in a role where clinical excellence and advocacy meetensuring justice dignity and healing for survivors across our community.
- Bachelors Of Science in Nursing - BSN
- Three years of staff nursing work experience that demonstrates attainment of the requisite job knowledge skills/abilities
- Registered Nurse: CA (RN:CA)
- Basic Life Support - CPR (BLS-CPR)
Preferred
- Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Adult (SANE-A)
- Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Pediatric (SANE-P)
Required Experience:
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