Nursing the Evidence

Serita Stevens, RN, BSN, MA, FNE, CLNC

Serita is a member of the International Assoc of Forensic Nurses and yearly attends their educational seminars to keep up with the new developments in the field giving her wide access to many experts.

She took training in sexual assault investigations, evidence collection, death investigations, forensic photography, criminal profiling, wound ballistic and trauma injury as well as victim/witness interviewing.  Following her interest in justice, she became certified as a legal nurse consultant and took courses in courtroom communications.

She volunteers on a hot line and currently does domestic abuse counseling, as well.

A nurse since 1971, Serita specialized in psychiatry and mental health in her native Chicago.  She later worked in Northwestern’s Emergency Room, where she learned valuable skills, which transferred over to her jobs as a medical-surgical nurse and a home health nurse. She has experience writing policy and procedures and doing education seminars for nurses. 

 

Copyright 2008 Serita Stevens
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