Thursday, June 20, 2013 - 3:00pm to Thursday, June 20, 2013 - 4:30pm ET
Expiration Date:
Access to the evaluation and certificate for the live webinar will be available until Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 11:00pm ET
Target Audience:
This activity has been designed to meet the educational needs of nurses, physicians, and other health and legal professionals involved in the treatment and care of victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.
Statement of Need/Program Overview:
Medical literature regarding issues of strangulation in children is limited and generally consists of case studies often involving fatality. Strangulation in children can present differently that than of the adult patient in that children may engage in "the choking game" without understanding the health consequences, may be attempting suicide or may be victims of child maltreatment with the offender using strangulation as a tactic.
After completing this activity, the participant should be better able to:
- Define strangulation
- Identify the anatomy and physiology of the neck as it relates to injuries post strangulation
- Recognize signs and symptoms associated with strangulation in pediatric patients
- Summarize the potentially lethal consequences of strangulation
- Discuss effective evaluation tools in caring for the pediatric strangulation patient
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
Ms. Pierce-Weeks, a Project Director for IAFN, works with project partners and developed and implemented IAFN’s 40-hour online SAFE Adult/Adolescent training program with 16-hour clinical skills workshop through a grant from NIJ. She regularly presents nationally on a variety of forensic nursing-related topics, including child and adult sexual assault, intimate partner violence, strangulation, child maltreatment, and SART development. With more than 27 years’ experience as an emergency nurse, Ms. Pierce-Weeks became a SANE in 1995, first serving as a Facility Coordinator and then as the State of New Hampshire SANE Program Director. In 2007, she moved to Colorado Springs joining an established SANE program and successfully expanding the program from SANE to a comprehensive Forensic Nurse Examiner Program. Dual board certified as a SANE-A and a SANE-P, she continues to work as a forensic nurse examiner with her local program. Ms. Pierce-Weeks’ work at a national level includes being Past-President of IAFN, where she served on the board from 2006 to 2010 and as a consultant for the Southwest Center for Law and Policy’s SAFESTAR Project and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s SANE Sustainability Project. In addition, she has written, edited, and reviewed State-specific protocols and customized protocols for hospitals, SARTs, and Tribal communities. She also was a contributing author for the most recent edition of the Atlas of Sexual Violence; has contributed to Forensic Health Online; has published in the Journal of Forensic Nursing and the Journal of Emergency Nursing; and has been featured in publications such as Evidence Technology Magazine, USA Today, and the National Center for Victims of Crime Profiles in DNA segment.
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 enduring activity for 1.5 Nursing CE Credits. JBS International, Inc. designates this enduring activity for 1.5 Continuing Education Unit (CEU) Credits.
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 |
The following International Association of Forensic Nurses planners and managers, Kim Day, RN, FNE A/P, SANE-A, SANE-P, Jenifer Markowitz, ND, RN, WHNP-BC, SANE-A, 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:
Enduring activity
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