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As a healthcare professional, you have ethical and professional obligations to serve your patients. We believe that NSU alumni who serve in the health professions can have an edge over their peers in understanding trauma and its effect on patients and ensuring that their health care environments are free from harassment and discrimination. We partner with academic programs to infuse these concepts into the curriculum and offer resources below to our students and faculty towards ensuring a quality of care that is unmatched.

 

Creating a Harassment-Free Practice

National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health

• A Trauma-Informed Approach to Employment Support: Tools for Practice 

Office of Victims of Crime - Office of Justice Programs

• The Vicarious Trauma Toolkit 

Virginia Anti-Violence Project

• Responding to the Needs of LGBTQ People of Color Experiencing Sexual Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, or Stalking 

 

Trauma-Informed Health Care

2022 SAAM Webinar "Trauma-Informed Healthcare: Understanding and Meeting the Needs of Victimized Patients"

American Academic of Pediatrics

• Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences and Other Types of Trauma in the Primary Care Setting (Spanish)
• Adverse Childhood Experiences and the Lifelong Consequences of Trauma (Spanish)
• Diagnoses to Consider When Evaluating a Child Exposed to Trauma
• Helping Foster and Adoptive Families Cope With Trauma: A Guide of Pediatricians (Spanish)
• Protecting Physician Wellness: Working With Children Affected by Traumatic Events (Spanish)
• The Medical Home Approach to Identifying and Responding to Exposure to Trauma

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

• Addressing Intimate Partner Violence, Reproductive and Sexual Coercion: A Guide for Obstetric, Gynecologic and Reproductive Health Care Settings (2^nd)

Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence

• Health Issues Affecting Trafficked Individuals 

Center for Gender and Justice

• Beyond Trauma: A Presentation of Trauma Theory in Women’s Groups 

Feminist Women's Health Center

• Exposing Reproductive Coercion: A toolkit for Awareness-Raising, Assessment, and Intervention 

International Association of Forensic Nurse

• The National Protocol for Sexual Assault Forensic Examinations for Adults & Adolescents 
• The National Protocol for Sexual Assault Forensic Examinations – Pediatric 

Kink Clinical Practice Guidelines Project

• Clinical Practice Guidelines for Working with People with Kink Interests 
  

National Resource Center to Enhance Safety of Native Women and their Children

• Framing the Issues – Looking at the Opioid Epidemic in the Context of Trauma and Domestic Violence

National Center for Trauma-Informed Care

• Pregnant & Parenting Survivors: Guidelines for Health Care Providers 
  
• Pregnant & Parenting Survivors: Guidelines for Trauma-Focused Services 
  

National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health

• Tips for Creating a Welcoming Environment 
• Tips for Discussing a Mental Health Referral with Domestic Violence Survivors
• Tips for Making Connections with Survivors Experiencing Psychiatric Disabilities 

 Oregon Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence

• Domestic Violence Toolkit for Mental Health Professionals

World Health Organization - Geneva

• Guidelines for medico-legal care of victims of sexual violence
  
  

Related Research & Position Statements

Emergency Nurses Association & International Association of Forensic Nurses

• Joint Position Statement: Adult & Adolescent Sexual Assault Patients in the Emergency Care Setting 
• Joint Position Statement: Care of Prepubescent Pediatric Sexual Abuse Patients in the Emergency Care Setting 
• Joint Position Statement: Human Trafficking Awareness in the Emergency Care Setting

International Association of Forensic Nurses

• Position Paper: The Evaluation & Treatment of Non-Fatal Strangulation in the Health Care Setting 
  
• Position Statement: Violence is a Public Health and Health Care Issue 

National Sexual Violence Resource Center

• Key findings from “Sexual Violence Victimization and Associations with Health in a Community Sample of African American Women” 
  
• Key findings from “Sexual Violence Victimization and Associations with Health in a Community Sample of Hispanic Women”