Debra S. Holbrook, MSN, RN, SANE-A, FNE A/P, DF-AFN, FAAN
Director of Forensic Nursing, Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Mrs. Holbrook attended the Union Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Baltimore, Maryland and completed both undergraduate and graduate studies through Wilmington University. After working in the field of critical care, Mrs. Holbrook founded a Forensic Nurse Examiner Program in Delaware that became a model for the United States.
Mrs. Holbrook has integrated comprehensive forensic practice into the SANE model and her programs have cared for all patients of interpersonal violence including domestic, elder, child, institutional, vulnerable populations, gunshots, stabbings, non-accidental poisonings and burns. She has pioneered the use of the Alternate Light Source in strangulation cases and set precedence in Maryland court systems. She is currently Director of Forensic Nursing at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore which coordinates care to victims of interpersonal violence for all hospitals in Baltimore City.
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