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Resumé Highlights

Experience Highlights

2022 - Present

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE LEADER, SEXUAL ASSAULT NURSE EXAMINER (SANE) PROGRAM

Nova Scotia Health

Nova Scotia, Canada

Promote a culture of excellence in quality, person-centred care. Advance inter/intra-professional practice and learning priorities that support clinical transformation to improve health outcomes, especially in relation to sexual, domestic, and other forms of interpersonal violence response. Foster clinical leadership, transition to practice, and practice progression. Consult community SANE programs and NSH staff with respect to clinical standardization, workforce optimization, and addressing professional practice issues. Manage organizational change. Manage provincial SANE budget and oversee/ensure SANE program accountabilities regarding contracts and budgets.

Establish and maintain new SANE program in a unionized environment; purchase equipment; meet with key stakeholders; hire and train staff; assist with developing and altering existing policies; quality control through chart audits and ongoing staff education; collect and audit timesheets; create monthly SANE schedule; prepare weekly, monthly, and annual reports; conduct public awareness and educational presentations.

As above, but within a not-for-profit environment.

2020 - 2022

MANAGER, SANE program

VON

Truro, Nova Scotia

2018 - 2019

COORDINATOR, SANE program

Tri-county Women's Centre

Bridgewater, Nova Scotia

Values

Respect

Evidence-Informed

Ethical

Excellence

Innovation

Intelligence

Integrity

Consultation & Collaboration

Holistic, Person-centred

Education Highlights

Master of Health Studies

Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner - Adult Adolescent Certification

Intimate Partner Violence Nurse Examiner
Bachelor of Science
Nursing
Bachelor of Science
Health Education
Nova Scotia Teacher's Certificate
Bachelor of Science
Kinesiology

Athabasca University, Alberta, Canada    2023 - in progress

International Association of Forensic Nurses, 2023

International Association of Forensic Nurses, 2022

Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, 2013

Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, 1994

Nova Scotia Department of Education, 1994

 

 

Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, 1991

 

Professional Skillset

Attention to Detail

Quality Assurance

Change Management​​​​

Education development, Presentations

Strangulation Assessment

Motivation

Human Trafficking Response

Policy and Program Development

Employee Scheduling

Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner and Forensic Collection

Trauma-Informed

Inter personal violence response

Languages

English (native, above average skills)

Member of:

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RN License # 35576

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Member of CFNA SANE Standards Committee

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SANE-A  Certified

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© 2023 by Carol Rock-Altenhof

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