Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Guest: Amanda Taylor DNP, ANP-BC, SANE-A, SANE-P
Director of Nursing, Shelby County Crime Victims Rape Crisis Center

Join me this week for a conversation about sexual assault with Dr. Amanda Taylor, Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN). April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and the theme this year is “Building Safe Online Spaces Together”. Dr. Taylor and I discuss the online environment and how cybersex can turn into unwanted in-person sexual assault. We talk about how predators use social media to engage children, how to help loved ones who may have been victims of sexual abuse or assault, and more.

More About Dr. Taylor:
Dr. Amanda Taylor is the Director of Nursing and a sexual Assault Nurse Examiner at the Shelby County Crime Victims and Rape Crisis Center, a free-standing sexual assault facility that has been in service since 1975. She has served as associate program director for Wayne County Safe Program, a non-profit sexual assault program in Detroit Michigan. Dr. Taylor has also served as a part-time clinical adjunct professor at the University of Memphis Loewenberg School of Nursing in the Expanding Family Specialty for over 6 years. She began her career as a labor and delivery nurse at Methodist Hospital Germantown. Dr. Taylor has been an examiner at Shelby County Rape Crisis Center for over 8 years and worked at Wayne County SAFE for approximately 2 years. In 2005, she graduated from Union University with her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and in 2007 she graduated from Vanderbilt University with her Master of Science in Nursing with a forensic focus. She received her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree with a forensic focus in 2011. Dr. Taylor has seen over 1800 cases between the Rape Crisis Center and Wayne County SAFE Program. She is certified as both an Adult/Adolescent Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner and a Pediatric Sexual Nurse Examiner. She functions in her role as a SANE by offering victims of sexual assault, from all age groups: specific and individualized care that is based on their needs and desires. She provides medical forensic examinations, evidence collection, injury documentation, sexually transmitted infection testing and prophylaxis, pregnancy prevention as well as expert testimony. Dr. Taylor also interacts with the Department of Children’s Services, prosecutors, and law enforcement agencies in many jurisdictions of Tennessee, Mississippi, as well as Arkansas; and provides expert witness testimony in Juvenile, Criminal, and Federal Courts.

Websites:
https://www.nsvrc.org/saam/2021/about/onlineabuseandtrauma
https://www.rainn.org/national-resources-sexual-assault-survivors-and-their-loved-ones
https://www.rainn.org/types-sexual-violence
https://www.rainn.org/articles/what-is-consent
https://rainn.org/warning-signs
https://rainn.org/recovering-sexual-violence
https://rainn.org/safety-prevention

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