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Easton, MD - Nurse Initiates Program to Help Sexual Assault Victims

Posted on: May 3, 2012
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Jessica Fluharty, RN, FNE-A, a nurse at Shore Health System, recently initiated a program called "Operation Power Purse" to help women who experience sexual assault and undergo a forensic exam at Dorchester General Hospital, Cambridge, MD, or Memorial Hospital, Easton, MD.

Since clothing is often a key piece of evidence for law enforcement following sexual assault, women often do not have any clothes to wear home other than paper scrubs given to them in the emergency department. Through Operation Power Purse, women are given a bag filled with a change of clothes, toiletries and other personal items.

"Going through the experience of a sexual assault and the subsequent forensic exam is a traumatizing experience for these victims," said Fluharty. "We hope that by giving them back a bit of their dignity, we can give these women a healthy and safe new start after such a terrible event."

Donations of gently worn clothing, new packs of undergarments and socks as well as toiletries, such as shampoo, deodorant and toothpaste, are needed to create Power Purses. Donation boxes are set up in the waiting room areas of the EDs at each hospital and the Queen Anne's Emergency Center, Queenstown, MD.

Monetary donations can be sent to the Memorial Hospital Foundation, Operation Power Purse, 219 S. Washington St., Easton, MD 21601.

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