Implementation of an Updated Screening Tool to Identify Human Trafficking Victims in the Emergency Department (0.25h)

This educational offering provides 0.25 CEU and was presented in the Clinical track. The course includes an MP4 video file from the presentation originally shared at the 16th National Doctors of Nursing Practice Conference (Virtual), August 2023.

Laura Elizabeth Flinn, DNP, FNP-BC
Dr. Laura Flinn earned her BSN (2008) from Bradley University, MSN (2013) from Illinois State University, and DNP (2022) with an emphasis in leadership from Bradley University. She is board certified through ANCC as a Family Nurse Practitioner since 2013. Dr. Laura Flinn currently works at Bradley University in the Department of Nursing in Peoria, IL and as a Family Nurse Practitioner at OSF St. Francis Medical Group. Her focus is teaching in the graduate online nurse practitioner program in a variety of in the health assessment, theory, and practicum courses.

Objectives

1. Improve current screening processes to identify human trafficking victims within the emergency department.
2. Increase the knowledge of identifying red flags of human trafficking victims.
3. Increase awareness of local and national resources that are available to human trafficking victims.