Kalen Knight

Kalen Knight is the Forensic Nursing Specialist–Education with the International Association of Forensic Nurses. He has extensive experience in clinical practice and education development from his prior professional nursing experiences, including emergency, trauma, infectious disease, biocontainment/quarantine, nursing education, and forensic nursing. Knight previously revamped an all-encompassing new graduate ER nurse fellowship program, and coordinated the initiation of a formal hospital-based forensic examiner program that responds and cares for victims and survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, intimate partner violence, human trafficking, and elder abuse. He has a special passion for workplace violence prevention that resulted in the development and coordination of a support program specifically built for colleagues in domestic violence/intimate partner violence situations. Knight is committed to bringing innovative ideas to forensic nursing and fostering expansion and support for the specialty as a whole. He is a practicing SANE-A at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska, a Medicolegal Death Investigator in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, and an adjunct lecturer for the Master in Forensic Nursing Program at Oakland University for the Quality, Legal, Matters of Death Course and Clinical.