Wednesday, September 10, 2014 to Friday, September 12, 2014
Target Audience:
This activity has been designed to meet the educational needs of nurses, physicians, and other health professionals involved in the treatment and care of victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.
Statement of Need/Program Overview:
Registered nurses, advanced practice nurses, physicians, and physician assistants who have already completed a 40-hour SANE training are invited to attend this three-day, classroom-based domestic violence examiner (DVE) training. Participants will learn the essential skills and knowledge to appropriately care for adult and adolescent patients who have expierienced intimate partner violence. Topics to be covered include:
- Dynamics of Intimate Partner Violence
- Assessing and Treating the IPV Patient
- Patient-Centered Coordinated Team Approach
- Legal Issues
- Operational Issues
Registration is free to health care providers from IHS, Tribal, and Urban Indian health care facilities. Health care providers from referral facilities that serve American Indian or Alaska Native victims of sexual assault are also eligible to attend at no cost. Materials will be provided. Meals are not provided.
Questions? Email us at [email protected]
After completing this activity, the participant should be better able to:
- Identify and analyze current scientific literature related to incidence and prevalence of IPV across the lifespan
- Describe the potential clinical indicators and associated short and long-term health consequences of IPV
- Analyze practice delivery models, including barriers to services, across a variety of healthcare settings and populations (e.g., LGBTQ/Two-spirit, elders)
- Identify examples of effective interventions for IPV patients
- Describe the purpose of comprehensive screening, and lethality, dangerousness and risk assessments in the IPV patient population and examine the co-occurrence of both child maltreatment and sexual violence in IPV patients
- Describe appropriate safety and discharge planning with the IPV patient
- Utilize a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, patient-centered, trauma informed model of care in order to minimize concerns about revictimization within the healthcare system
- Describe and differentiate common IPV injuries and identify the physical/biological evidence collection needs and collect, package and preserve the samples as warranted
- Document the care of the patient, using subjective and objective data, to provide a comprehensive clinical picture of the patient encounter, including co-existing conditions
- Identify ethical issues that can arise in the care of IPV patients, such as mandatory reporting requirements and circumstances where disclosures of protected health information may be required as they relate to the IPV patient
- Describe the role of clinicians in both criminal and civil legal proceedings and illustrate an understanding of effective testimony skills, grounded in practice and current science
Presenter(s):
Jenifer Markowitz, ND, RN, WHNP-BC, SANE-A
Dr. Markowitz is a forensic nursing consultant who specializes in issues related to sexual assault and domestic violence, including medical-forensic examinations, strangulation, expert witness testimony, and professional education and development. She currently provides expert testimony, case consultation, and TA and develops training materials, resources, and publications. Until December 2012, she served as the Medical Advisor for AEquitas: The Prosecutor’s Resource on Violence Against Women. A forensic nurse examiner since 1995, Dr. Markowitz has presented and facilitated for organizations such as the National District Attorneys Association and several State prosecuting attorney associations, as well as the Judge Advocate General’s Corps for the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. Her past national activities include working with the DOJ’s OVW to develop a national protocol and training standards for SAFEs, with the U.S. Department of Defense to revise the military’s Sexual Assault Evidence Collection kit and corresponding documentation forms, and on the advisory board for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. She is the author of multiple publications, including several book chapters and the clinical text The Color Atlas of Domestic Violence (Mosby), and serves as a member of the editorial board of the Sexual Assault Report. In 2004, Dr. Markowitz was the recipient of the IAFN’s Distinguished Fellow award. In 2011, Dr. Markowitz was elected to the IAFN’s board of directors and served as President in 2012. Dr. Markowitz received a BA from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She completed her clinical doctorate in nursing (ND) at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver and is board certified as a women’s health nurse practitioner and a SANE (Adult/Adolescent).
Jennifer Pierce-Weeks, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P
Jennifer Pierce-Weeks, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P is presently a Project Director at IAFN. Immediately prior to joining IAFN, Jennifer was Manager of the Forensic Nurse Examiner Program at Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs, and prior to that served for 12 years as the Director of the State of NH Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program. She has 25 years nursing experience, and is an educator and expert in the areas of child and adult sexual assault, as well as domestic violence, is a contributing author for several Attorney General protocols in New Hampshire, is published in the Journal of Emergency Nursing and the Journal of Forensic Nursing. Jennifer has extensive experience as a local and national trainer, as well as a clinician, and is an item-writer for both the adult and pediatric Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner certification programs through the IAFN. Additionally Jennifer has been a consultant with the NSVRC National Sustainability Project and the SAFESTAR project.Jennifer is Past-President of the International Association of Forensic Nurses and served on the IAFN Board from 2006-2010.
Physician Accreditation Statement:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and International Association of Forensic Nurses. The Postgraduate Institute for Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Physician Credit Designation:
The Postgraduate Institute for Medicine designates this live activity for 24.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nursing and Other Continuing Education Accreditation Statement:
The International Association of Forensic Nurses is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Nursing and Other Continuing Education Credit Designation:
The International Association of Forensic Nurses designates this live activity for 24 Nursing CE Credits.
Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest:
Postgraduate Institute for Medicine (PIM) requires instructors, planners, managers and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of this activity to disclose any real or apparent conflict of interest (COI) they may have as related to the content of this activity. All identified COI are thoroughly vetted and resolved according to PIM policy. The existence or absence of COI for everyone in a position to control content will be disclosed to participants prior to the start of each activity.
The faculty reported the following financial relationships or relationships to products or devices they or their spouse/life partner have with commercial interests related to the content of this CME activity:
| Name of Faculty or Presenter | Reported Financial Relationship |
|---|---|
| Jenifer Markowitz | Nothing to disclose |
| Jennifer Pierce-Weeks | Nothing to disclose |
Media:
Live webinar
Disclaimer:
Americans with Disabilities Act
Event staff will be glad to assist you with any special needs (ie, physical, dietary, etc). Please contact Bonnie Barsa prior to the live event at 410-626-7805.
CNE CEU Evaluation:
How to Obtain your Nursing CE Certificate
IAFN will use their standard activity evaluation for Nursing CE's. More information will be provided onsite.
Registered nurses, advanced practice nurses, physicians, and physician assistants who have already completed a 40-hour SANE training are invited to attend this three-day, classroom-based domestic violence examiner (DVE) training. Participants will learn the essential skills and knowledge to appropriately care for adult and adolescent patients who have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV).