JPHC CE: Medical Child Abuse: Essentials for Pediatric Health Care Providers

0.75 NAPNAP contact hour. This continuing education activity is offered free to NAPNAP members. For non-members, this continuing education activity rate is $10. Medical child abuse (MCA) is a rare but potentially deadly variant of child maltreatment. MCA results in unnecessary health care for a child because of a caregiver’s exaggeration, fabrication, or induction of physical and/or psychological symptoms of illness. These unnecessary health care interventions result in a morbidity rate of 100% in the form of complications and disabilities and a mortality rate as high as 9%. Although MCA is relatively rare, it is estimated that pediatric health care professionals, including pediatric nurse practitioners, will most likely encounter at least one MCA victim in the course of their career. This continuing education article will discuss MCA in terms of definition and features, epidemiology, perpetrators, variants in presentation, consequences, and implications for practice. J Pediatr Health Care. (2021) 35, 644−650

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This continuing education activity is administered by the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) as an Agency providing continuing education credit. Individuals who complete this program and earn a 70% or higher score on the post test will be awarded 0.75 NAPNAP contact hours of which 0.0 is pharmacology content.

Keywords: Medical child abuse, child maltreatment

Target Audience

Pediatric-focused advanced practice registered nurses

Learning Objectives

1. Define medical child abuse.

2. Discuss the epidemiology of medical child abuse.

3. Describe factors that should raise practitioner concerns for possible medical child abuse.

4. Discuss consequences of medical child abuse.

5. Discuss practice behaviors to enhance the identification of medical child abuse

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 0.75 Contact hours
Course opens: 
10/20/2021
Course expires: 
12/31/2022
Cost:
$10.00

Gail Hornor, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Center for Family Safety and Healing
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Columbus, OH.

Conflicts of interest: None to report

Correspondence:

Gail Hornor, DNP, CPNP, SANE-P,
Center for Family Safety and Healing
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
655 ELivingston Ave.
Columbus, OH 43205
e-mail: Gail.hornor@nationwidechildrens.org

 

Available Credit

  • 0.75 Contact hours

Price

Cost:
$10.00
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