Creating an Effective Medical Forensic Response to Pediatric Victims of Sexual Abuse in Indian Country

Topic:
Creating an Effective Medical Forensic Response to Pediatric Victims of Sexual Abuse in Indian Country
Release Date:
Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 3:00pm to Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 4:30pm ET

Expiration Date:
Access to the evaluation and certificate for the live webinar will be available until Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - 8:00pm ET

Estimated time to complete:
1.00 hours
Presenter(s):
Rachel E. Locker MD
Misty Hunter RN
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Target Audience: 

This activity has been designed to meet the educational needs of nurses, physicians, and other health and legal professionals involved in the care of adult and/or adolescent sexual assault victims.

Statement of Need/Program Overview: 

Presenters from the Child Advocacy Center in Warm Springs.OR and the Four Directions Clinic in Kyle, SD will detail how their programs were developed and discuss their successes and challenges along the way.

After completing this activity, the participant should be better able to:

  • Identify the sequence of steps necessary to create an effective medical forensic response to Pediatric victims of Sexual Abuse in Indian Country
  • Discuss potential responses to common challenges in developing an effective medical forensic response to Pediatric victims of Sexual Abuse in Indian Country
  • Identify the essential stakeholders in building an effective medical forensic response to Pediatric victims of Sexual Abuse in Indian Country

Presenter(s): 

Rachel E. Locker MD

Dr. Locker has been the Clinical Director at Warm Springs Health and Wellness since August 2013 and has been a physician there for more than 20 years. She is a recognized expert in Family and Sexual Violence and has served as Executive Director of Snwiyaila Miyanashna (Talking or the Children) Child Advocacy Center, Warm Springs Health and Wellness Center. She worked closely with the FBI, Tribal Law Enforcement, the US Attorney’s office and Tribal officials to open this child abuse intervention center in 2012. This center is the second such facility in Indian country. She serves as lead Clinical Advisor to National Native Women’s Health Advisory Board and serves as IHS Portland Area Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Consultant She has published extensively and received numerous awards and commendations for her work.

Misty Hunter RN

Misty Hunter has 12 years of nursing experience in outpatient, women's health settings. She has been a Sexual Assault Examiner since 2014.

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 a maximum of 1.5 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. JBS International, Inc. is an approved provider through NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals (Provider Number 000208).

Nursing and Other Continuing Education Credit Designation: 

The International Association of Forensic Nurses designates this live activity for 1.5 Nursing CE Credits. JBS International, Inc. designates this live activity for 1.5 Continuing Education Unit (CEU) contact hours.

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. PIM is committed to providing its learners with high quality CME activities and related materials that promote improvements or quality in healthcare and not a specific proprietary business interest of a commercial interest.

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
Rachel E. Locker Nothing to disclose
Misty Hunter Nothing to disclose

The planners and managers 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:

The following PIM planners and managers, Trace Hutchison, PharmD, Samantha Mattiucci, PharmD, CHCP, Judi Smelker-Mitchek, RN, BSN and Jan Schultz, RN, MSN, CHCP, hereby state that they or their spouse/life partner do not have any financial relationships or relationships to products or devices with any commercial interest related to the content of this activity of any amount during the past 12 months.

The following International Association of Forensic Nurses planners and managers,Jennifer Pierce-Weeks, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P and Sarah Tucker, BA, hereby state that they or their spouse/life partner do not have any financial relationships or relationships to products or devices with any commercial interest related to the content of this activity of any amount during the past 12 months.

Media: 

Live webinar

Disclosure of Unlabeled Use: 

This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. The planners of this activity do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications.

The opinions expressed in the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of the planners. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.

Disclaimer: 

Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patient’s conditions and possible contraindications and/or dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.

CNE CEU Evaluation: 

Nurses: How to Obtain your CEU or CNE Certificate

IAFN and JBS will use their standard activity evaluation for CNE and CEU.

For any questions relating to CNE (nursing) or CEU certification, please contact us at [email protected].

CME Evaluation: 

Physicians: How to Obtain your CME Certificate

PIM supports Green CME by offering your Request for Credit online. If you wish to receive acknowledgment for completing this activity, please follow the steps below:

  1. Go to CME University at: www.cmeuniversity.com and register or login
  2. Once logged in, click on “Find Post-test/Evaluation by Course” at the top of the page
  3. Type in “10864 in the box, and hit enter
  4. Click on the activity title
  5. Complete the online posttest and evaluation and obtain your CME certificate to download and/or print for your files.

Upon completion of the online posttest and evaluation form, you will have immediate access to a certificate of attendance to print or save for your files. You can save your certificate by selecting the “Save” option on the print screen.

For any questions relating to CME (physician) certification for this activity, please contact Postgraduate Institute for Medicine at: [email protected] or (303) 799-1930.

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Jointly provided by Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and International Association of Forensic Nurses.

Rachel Locker, MD from the Snwiyaila Miyanashna (Talking for the Children) Child Advocacy Center in Warm
Springs, OR and Misty Hunter, RN from the Four Directions Clinic in Kyle, SD will share how their programs were
developed and discuss their successes and challenges along the way.