Programs and Services

What services do the Jamerson forensic nurses perform?

  • Assist law enforcement in suspected abuse cases through comprehensive evidence collection performed in an efficient and expert manner that follows all legal rules of evidence gathering.

  • Provide attorneys with consultation services and expert witness testimony.

  • Serve physicians as a source for forensic assessment of suspected abuse.

  • Perform assessments of sexual abuse and collection of rape kits on-site at hospital emergency rooms or in the JFN office.

  • Provide human service agencies, such as domestic violence shelters, with domestic abuse assessment (sexual and non-sexual).

  • Assist County Coroners with evidence collection and abuse assessment.

  • Facilitate greater understanding and promote intervention with regards to violence, abuse and trauma through educational in-service and training for companies, human service agencies, churches, schools, law enforcement and legal groups.

What do assessments include?

  • Comprehensive medical history and professional investigative interview

  • Head-to-toe physical assessment of abuse

  • Evidence collection and forensic documentation utilizing state-of-the-art equipment

  • Injury assessment and forensic documentation

  • Photo documentation of wounds inflicted by violence

  • Rape kit collection

  • Laboratory testing for forensic evaluation

What is forensic assessment provided for?

  • Child/adolescent/adult abuse

  • Elder abuse

  • Sexual assault

  • Domestic violence

  • Physical abuse

  • Children exposed to methamphetamine production

  • Coroner's cases involving suspected abuse

  • Suspect evidence collection


Jamerson Forensic Nursing - 86 Sunbridge Drive - Fayetteville, AR 72703
Phone: 479-442-5500 - Fax: 479-442-5602 - E-mail:

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