Sexual Violence and Disclosure: Tools to Respond

May 8, 2025

This education will help allow staff to not only understand trauma-related symptoms, but also give them tools to help speak with and support a survivor with disclosure and.

This education will also help ease the comfort level of staff working with patients/families who have survived sexual violence. This comfort will help put the patients more at ease and will help the medical team as a whole address patient care more effectively.

Target Audience

Nurse

Social Worker

Learning Objectives

- Review the definition and dynamics of sexual violence

- Identify commonalities and differences in disclosure of past vs. recent incidents

- Understand common trauma-related symptoms

- Build skills to support a survivor through a disclosure

- Identify available resources for a survivor of sexual violence

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.00 ASWB
  • 1.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
05/08/2025
Course expires: 
06/30/2025
Event starts: 
05/08/2025 - 11:00am EDT
Event ends: 
05/08/2025 - 12:00pm EDT
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This education will help allow staff to not only understand trauma-related symptoms, but also give them tools to help speak with and support a survivor with disclosure and.

This education will also help ease the comfort level of staff working with patients/families who have survived sexual violence. This comfort will help put the patients more at ease and will help the medical team as a whole address patient care more effectively.

Teams Meeting
Pittsburgh, PA
United States

Katherine M. Van Ness, BA

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.0 continuing education credits.

Social Work (ASWB)

This program is offered for 1.0 hours of social work continuing education.

Nursing (ANCC)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.0 contact hours.

Other Healthcare Professionals:

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.00 ASWB
  • 1.00 Attendance
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