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Mar
06

SAC NAPNAP - Protecting Our Future Event

Topic: Child Abuse Recognition & Responsibilities
Event Information
When

Saturday, Mar 06
08:30am (PST)

Where

Shriners Hospital for Children
2425 Stockton Boulevard
Sacramento CA 95817

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Dear Members and Colleagues,

If you have not already done so, please take a moment to register for our March 6th, 2010 Conference.

 

Registration
Click Here to Download the Brochure and Register

Space is limited.  Pre-registration is required. Fees and form must be received by February 19, 2010 to reserve your space.  Confirmations on request via email only. 


AGENDA

8:30am:   Registration / Continental Breakfast

9:00am:   Welcome – Teresa Rodriguez-Wargo, President Sacramento Valley Chapter NAPNAP

9:15am:   Dr. Angela Rosas – Patterned Injuries of Child Abuse: Recognition and Assessment of Child Abuse

10:45am: Break 11:00am: Irene Chu, M.S. – CPS Emergency Response: Requirements and Process, The Child’s Experience.

12:00pm: Round table discussion

12:30pm: Closing / Evaluations

PLEASE NOTE: Class will start promptly at 8:30. If you arrive more than 15 minutes late for class or leave 15 minutes early, no contact hours will be issued.

 

Course Description

This course discusses the recognitions, legal responsibilities, assessment and management of children abused or neglected. It is designed for nurses, social workers, counselors, and other health care professionals, targeting those who work in the community. Completing this course will enable the individual to become more aware of at risk children, their responsibilities and the process to help safeguard these children from future abuse.

 

Goals and Objectives

  1. Upon completion of this program, the participant will be able to:

  2. Participants will be updated on the recognition of child physical abuse cutaneous injuries as well as skin findings that mimic abuse.

  3. Participants will understand the difficulties in dating cutaneous injuries.

  4. Participants will appreciate the role of evidence based medicine in the diagnosis of child physical abuse.

  5. Describe the assessment process for children suspected of being abused.

  6. Describe CPS’s intake and management of children suspected of abuse and neglect. 

 

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nurses, Sacramento chapter of NAPNAP, Sacramento CEP # 11802 for 3 contact hours. Sac chapter NAPNAP is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the BRN.

To learn more and RSVP please download the attached brochure!