Access Continuing Education Audio Course - Child Abuse and Maltreatment/Neglect: Identification and Reporting: Recent Episodes
Access Continuing Education
4.2 Contact Hours; credit available until 08/01/2012. Access Continuing Education, Inc. is approved as a provider of nursing continuing education (provider #09-06-003PR) by the Vermont State Nurses' Association, Inc., which is accredited as an approver of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses' Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Because mandated reporters work in professional capacities in many occupations that interface with children, New Yorkers are counting on you to recognize child abuse and maltreatment/neglect, in all its forms, when you see it.
Like many states in the US, New York State passed a law to help stop people from abandoning newborns in unsafe and dangerous places.
Whenever discussing potential abuse with a child, some basic considerations include these important points.
While physical injuries may or may not be immediately visible, abuse and neglect can have consequences for children, families, and society that last lifetimes, if not generations.
This chapter discusses some of the factors that commonly contribute to child maltreatment.
The first step in helping abused or neglected children is learning to recognize the signs of child abuse and neglect.
Federal and state terms related to child abuse; how and when to use them, and what they mean.
The National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) is a federally sponsored effort that collects and analyzes annual data on child abuse and neglect.
This chapter discusses who must make reports of child abuse and maltreatment or neglect within New York State.