OVERVIEW

Update on Domestic Violence is organized by Baptist Health South Florida.

Course opens: 02/01/2022
Course expires: 01/31/2023

Overview:
This course fulfils the two-hour continuous education for domestic violence and requirements for licensure for Florida allopathic doctors, psychologists, podiatrists and psychologists, advanced nurse practitioners, nursing staff, and social workers.

You can find the current Florida Board of Medicine relicensure requirements here.

Learning Objectives:

• Find the perpetrators and victims of domestic violence in the clinical practice.
• Find out the number of patients in an office of a physician who is likely victimized by domestic violence, as well as the number of people who could be the perpetrators of domestic violence.
• Recognize the cycles that lead to violence and evaluate how the relationship with domestic violence fits into the cycle.
• Explain the legal system's process that victims and perpetrators go through.
• Distinguish the domestic violence court from others in the justice system.
• Refer survivors of domestic violence to counselling groups for victims, victim support groups and protection services.
• Use resources within your local area, like domestic violence centres as well as advocacy groups offering legal assistance refuge, counselling for victims or child protection services.