Salt Lake Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners Inc

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“Conflict of interest policy: no individual shall use their position with the organization to recommend a vendor with who they have a personal or business relationship at the expense of another vendor. No staff or volunteers may be involved in a purchase by the organization in which they have a private interest, have any financial interests in or profit, directly or indirectly, from any business dealings with the association. It shall be the policy of the organization that an employee shall not knowingly purchase or promote the purchase of any goods or services from any member, employee or from any member or employee's immediate family member without prior approval from the executive board. When in question the individual shall remove themselves from the recommendation and/or approval process.”

“The board of directors reviews the executive director's salary annually based on comparisons with other similar organizations and the results of operations of the organization.”

“Compensation for employees is determined by several factors: cost of living, amount of hours worked, position title, required duties of position, level of education, etc. Compensation scales found online and inquiries with professional organizations (ex. Iafn, utah non-profit association) are reviewed periodically to determine fair and equitable compensation for all positions within the organization. Compensation for employees is recommended by administrative staff and is reviewed and rejected or approved by board members.”

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“Wasatch forensic nurses (wfn) completed its 21st year of service in 2023. The team finished the year having completed 912 exams with physical assaults totaling 168, five suspect exams and the remaining 739 exams being for sexual assault. In addition to these exams, wfn completed a total of 325 patient consults. Throughout the year wfn continued to provide services with 40 law enforcement agencies, three advocacy organizations and 26 hospitals and clinics throughout our service area of salt lake, summit, utah and wasatch counties. Our collaborative efforts have become more robust over the years and remain a foundational support for our continued success. Interpersonal violence/intimate partner violence (ipv) funding was still available to wfn in 2023 via federal grant funding through the commission on criminal and juvenile justice (ccjj) byrne justice assistance grant. We partnered with 23 of the 40 law enforcement agencies within our service area during this pilot project to provide ipv exams for victims requesting this care. Similar to sexual assault, these exams were able to be provided at no cost to the victim. Along with the law enforcement agencies mentioned, three major prosecutorial agencies and local advocate agencies engaged in the project with wfn and participated in multi-disciplinary meetings regarding these types of cases. Feedback received indicated the findings and information gathered during exams assisted in the investigation and prosecution of these crimes. Local researchers expressed interest in partnering with wfn in the coming year to gather data and include it in a national report and research project that will eventually be presented at the federal level to support national funding in the future. In 2023, a small amount of legislative funding became available for ipv exams. Wfn collaboratively worked with the utah domestic violence coalition (udvc) and ccjj by sharing data from our ipv pilot project to provide additional insight to this group that was working to provide funds via reimbursement to law enforcement agencies working with victims of ipv. This collaborative approach allowed wfn to provide ipv exams for agencies in our service area who had not signed on to our pilot project. Communication with udvc brought to light issues we encountered with our pilot project early on and assisted them in understanding the history of these exams, lack of funding, and provided a second funding stream (once our funding from ccjj was expended) for ipv exams. These initial conversations have led to further collaboration and communication between our agency and the state domestic violence coalition with regard to ongoing legislation and state funding sources. We are pleased to have another community partner in this work. At the beginning of 2023, wfn received word that funding for sexual assault exams would be increased significantly, as increased funding for exams had not happened in almost a decade. The wfn board felt strongly that nurse retention needed to become a major focus and they generously increased nurse case pay by almost 67% while simultaneously raising other pay the nurses receive for various activities performed. This allowed wfn to become more closely aligned with hospital salaries and become more competitive in the workforce when seeking nurses to join the team. Wfn increased its workforce throughout the year ending with an almost record of nurses on the team since the inception of the team. We had a record number of nurses reach out wanting to work for wfn (numbers we haven't seen since before the pandemic). Furthermore, we retained several nurses on the team, with approximately 10% of the team being with the team three years or more. Partway through 2023, federal funding was pulled for preceptorships for rural teams, wfn made an offering to sane teams across the state that still allowed them to precept with our team. In 2023 six nurses from rural teams precepted with wfn. Nurses spent four days re”