4033-17: Educating Nursing Students on Intimate Partner Violence: Knowledge Integration from Classroom Theory and a Standardized Patient Simulation Experience

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4033-17: Educating Nursing Students on Intimate Partner Violence:  Knowledge Integration from Classroom Theory and a Standardized Patient Simulation Experience

This presentation on IPV provides an overview of an innovative, interdisciplinary teaching methodology to educate health care professionals and students on how to screen, assess, and provide advocacy for those who are being abused. Classroom theory, an interactive workshop, and standardized patient simulation are all used to create the experience.


Presenters: Janene Luther Szpak, DNP, PMHNP-BC; Kirstyn M. Kameg, DNP, PMHNP-BC

Disclosures:  The presenters and planners have no conflict of interest or commercial support to disclose.  Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation.


Session Length:
  50 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN


Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:

  1. Identify screening tools and interventions for IPV.
  2. Identify the comorbidities and the clinical presentation associated with a patient experiencing IPV.
  3. Utilize an innovative strategy to incorporate IPV screening, assessment, and intervention into the educational setting.

Keywords: Intimate Partner Violence, Domestic Violence, Abuse, Education


Continuing Nursing Education:
0.75 contact hours.  * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to presentation, complete an evaluation, and earn a passing score on the post-test before the expiration date. You will have 5 tries to correctly answer the questions on the post-test and a score of 80% is required to pass. Once you have passed and completed an evaluation, the certificate will be generated online, available for you to print immediately. You cannot earn credit unless all steps are completed.

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association is accredited with distinction as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.


Originally Presented
APNA 31st Annual Conference
Phoenix, Arizona
Saturday, October 21, 2017
12:15pm - 1:00pm

The contact hours for this session expire:  January 1, 2021

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