Domestic Violence Education for Kentucky Nurses

Mandatory Kentucky Nursing CEU. Understand the impact of domestic violence, abuse, and intimate partner violence (IPV) and the role of the Kentucky nurse in identifying and responding to patients presenting with known or suspected domestic violence signs and symptoms, including mandatory KY reporting and referral.

1) Identify the different types of domestic violence.
2) Describe who is affected by domestic violence.
3) Discuss the healthcare implications and adverse effects of domestic violence.
4) List common risk factors, lethality issues, and dynamics of abuse.
5) Recognize the signs and symptoms of domestic violence.
6) Discuss appropriate documentation in cases of suspected domestic violence.
7) Summarize Kentucky’s mandatory reporting, information sharing, and referral requirements.
8) Identify community resources and victim services and protections.
9) Explain a model protocol that addresses domestic violence.

Nursing
Mandatory

Nursing: Mandatory Kentucky Nursing CEU. Understand the impact of domestic violence, abuse, and intimate partner violence (IPV) and the role of the Kentucky nurse in identifying and responding to patients presenting with known or suspected domestic violence signs and symptoms, including mandatory KY reporting and referral.
Mandatory: Mandatory Kentucky Nursing CEU. Understand the impact of domestic violence, abuse, and intimate partner violence (IPV) and the role of the Kentucky nurse in identifying and responding to patients presenting with known or suspected domestic violence signs and symptoms, including mandatory KY reporting and referral.

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Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

This course fulfills the Kentucky Board of Nursing requirement of 3 hours of continuing education in domestic violence for nurses.

Professional Issues
Abuse, Neglect & Violence
Emergency Nursing
Ethical, Legal Issues
State-Mandated CE
Professional Issues

Sheree L. Goldman

DNP, MSN, RN, WHNP

Sheree Goldman is an educator and writer with over four decades of clinical experience working with patients and families. Since 2000, her focus has been in forensics, coordinating a community-based program that conducts medical-legal examinations for victims and suspects of violence. She is a sexual assault forensic examiner for adult, adolescent, and pediatric patients and serves on the Domestic Violence Coordinating Council of Monterey County in California.