An education program for healthcare providers designed to expand and enhance effective routine screening and the utilization of or referral to institutional and local resources

Trautwein, Anna M.

Saturday, March 21, 2015: 11:25 AM-12:45 PM

Room 8/9 (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)

Speakers:
Anna M. Trautwein, RNC, Saint Peter's University Hospital
Elaine M. Hewins, CSW, NJ, Domestic, Violence, Specialist, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital

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Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report

Learning Objectives:

Identify essential elements of an engaging and practical 3-hour continuing education program for healthcare providers to identify and assist IPV victims/survivors in clinical settings.
Describe successful strategies for networking and building local and regional healthcare, academic, community partnership.

Description:
Healthcare professionals are often a “first-line response” for IPV victims and survivors. In this dialogic and interactive session, we share essential elements of a successful 3-hour IPV educational program for healthcare providers, and lessons learned regarding key strategies for building innovative healthcare/academic/community collaborative partnerships to deliver the program. Highlights will also be shared regarding program implementation of a research component to better evaluate the utilization of program content by the participants and the effect on practice change.