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“They offer great assistance to the court process. It is part of their training to come to court – it certainly aids in the investigation of rown prosecutor Winston sexual assault.” Sayson remembers a witness Lynn Gifford is the Forensic with a new and relatively unknown job title of forensic nurse Nursing Service-Clinical Coordinator examiner taking to the stand to at SMH’s emergency department. testify at a sexual assault case in She began nursing 39 years ago and Delta provincial court in the mid became a forensic nurse examiner in 1990s. The defence lawyer famously 2002. Along the way, she has learned objected to this witness being called, that to be a good forensic nurse, protesting, “She is just a nurse, she is you’ve got to have a compassionate no doctor.” But the judge permitted heart, a strong gut, be a good listener, her to testify. be intuitive, and be able to master Fast forward to 2015, and the your emotions. courts expect forensic nurses to be “The older I’m getting at nursing, there. the more I believe that often Sayson has been working alongside that compassionate witness is as them ever since, repeatedly seeing therapeutic as stitches or any other their expertise affirmed. “The expert thing you can do,” Gifford says. evidence they give in court assists the “When somebody’s describing their judges in their fact-finding role,” he life to you, their grief and their says. sorrow and things that are hurting Currently there are 20 forensic them, you’ve got to let that go in the nurses working out of Surrey direction they’re going in.” Memorial Hospital and another 12 in She and her fellow nurses help Abbotsford. Bridging the gap between patients from age two to end-of-life. the health and justice systems, they “My last patient, less than a month assist with continuity of evidence, ago, was a 96-year-old woman who preservation of specimens and help was a victim of sex assault in her reduce re-victimization through their home.” “one-stop” service of health care and forensic work. ❚ This week, the Now explores the “This is a pride of the Surrey world of Surrey’s forensic nurses. Memorial Hospital,” Sayson says. See our special report on page A9. Now staff Twitter @tomzytaruk
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