Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 3:00pm to Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 4:30pm ET
Expiration Date:
Access to the evaluation and certificate for the live webinar will be available until Tuesday, November 4, 2014 - 7:00am 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 care of victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.
Statement of Need/Program Overview:
This webinar will review the current empirical evidence on the prevalence and health effects of IPV among childbearing women and will assist practitioners to more effectively intervene with patients who are experiencing IPV. The presenter has nearly 30 years of experience in the violence against women arena and more than 20 years’ experience working as a primary health care provider for pregnant women. Along with the research and knowledge of others, she will share some of her own experiences addressing IPV as a health care provider and as a researcher.
Educational Objectives:
After completing this activity, the participant should be better able to:
- Summarize recent research on the prevalence and health effects of IPV during and around the time of pregnancy.
- Describe current IPV screening and intervention recommendations with women of childbearing age.
- Implement interventions intended to increase women’s safety and to mitigate the effects of IPV during pregnancy
- Examine evidence-based promising practices including “empowerment counseling”.
Presenter(s):
Diane K. Bohn, RN, CNM, PhD
Dr. Bohn has been active in the violence against women and children arenas for over 25 years. Her work began in 1986 with a position as Nurse Counselor in one of the first hospital-based family violence programs in the country. Since that time Dr. Bohn has been active in addressing lifetime physical and sexual abuse and health consequences in many capacities including clinician, educator, researcher, author, program director and program evaluator. Much of her clinical, research and programmatic work has been in Indian Country. Dr. Bohn is currently the Director of the Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Prevention Initiative SANE/SART Program at the IHS facility in Cass Lake Minnesota where she is also engaged in clinical midwifery practice. Prior to this position she was the first director of the Family Advocacy of Northern Minnesota where she developed the Child Advocacy Center and SANE Program. She was Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing graduate programs for 5 years. She is the past president of the Nursing Network on Violence Against Women International, and past chair of the American College of Nurse Midwives Committee on Violence Against Women. Dr. Bohn received her BSN from the University of Minnesota and her PhD from Rush University, Chicago.
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 .75 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 1.0 Nursing CE Credits. JBS International, Inc. designates this live activity for 1.0 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 |
|---|---|
| Diane K. Bohn | Nothing to disclose |
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 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, Laura Excell, ND, NP, MS, MA, LPC, NCC, Trace Hutchison, PharmD, Samantha Mattiucci, PharmD, CCMEP, and Jan Schultz, RN, MSN, CCMEP, 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, 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:
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:
- Go to CME University at: www.cmeuniversity.com and register or login
- Once logged in, click on “Find Post-test/Evaluation by Course” at the top of the page
- Type in “10119 in the box, and hit enter
- Click on the activity title
- 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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