Sex Trafficking Victim Identification and Response Training for the Emergency Department
This course is dedicated in memory of
Caitlin Anne Kearney
Course Description
This eNursing Course was developed by our Human Trafficking Response Program to help nursing professionals identify potential victims of sex trafficking in a clinical setting and how to properly treat these patients and report related criminal activity to law enforcement officials.
This course is presented by three experts in human and sex trafficking – former FBI special agent and President of H.T.I.T.I., Greg Bristol, pediatric nurse practitioner, Dr. Jessica Peck, and sex trafficking survivor and expert, K.D. Roche.
REVIEW OF OBJECTIVES:
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to –
- Identify the history and statistics of sex trafficking in the US
- Identify the important role nursing professionals play in identifying sex trafficking victims
- Understand the impact of sex trafficking on victims
- Understand criminal implications of sex trafficking
- Identify common victims
- Identify signs of sex trafficking in victims
- Understand and identify the major components of the US Strategic Action Plan to fight human trafficking
- Identify a nurses’ unique role in helping victims and stopping sex trafficking in the US
Successful completion of this course will provide the learner with three (3) contact hours.
This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the Virginia Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
To receive credit for this course you must pass this test with a score of 80% or higher.
No individual in a position to control content for this activity has any relevant financial relationships to declare.
Contact hours will be provided for the completion of this activity from June 18, 2018 until June 18, 2020.
Course Content - Chapters, Topics & Quizzes:
Course Content
Sex Trafficking Chapter 3 – Sex trafficking and the Role of Law Enforcement - Defining the crime of human trafficking
- The stages of human trafficking
- Defining who the victims of human trafficking are in the US
- Overview of the role of governments in the fight against human trafficking
- The US strategic plan to fight human trafficking
- Other examples of human trafficking victims meeting healthcare practitioners
- The role health care practitioners play
- Red flags of human trafficking
- Defining the crime of human trafficking
- The stages of human trafficking
- Defining who the victims of human trafficking are in the US
- Overview of the role of governments in the fight against human trafficking
- The US strategic plan to fight human trafficking
- Other examples of human trafficking victims meeting healthcare practitioners
- The role health care practitioners play
- Red flags of human trafficking
Successful completion of this course will provide the learner with three (3) contact hours. This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the Virginia Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation To receive credit for this course you must pass this test with a score of 80% or higher. No individual in a position to control content for this activity has any relevant financial relationships to declare. Contact hours will be provided for the completion of this activity from September 10, 2018 until September 18, 2020.