This course is for healthcare workers working in Primary Care. It focuses on safely treating all victim-survivors of sexual offences and refers to PACK Adult Western Cape.
About the course
Duration:
It will take you approximately 5 hours to complete.
Eligibility for this course:
- Although it is designed for nurses, it will be valuable to all healthcare professionals.
- Work in South Africa, in the Western Cape.
Certification:
Participants need 70% pass mark for final quiz.
Published:
April 2023
Course curriculum
This course covers the following content:
1. Responding to trauma
- Introductions: Training learning outcomes, How this training works.
- Understanding the trauma response: Thoughts, feelings and behaviours, Fight, flight, freeze responses. Self-reflection on how these impact on how to care fully in a consultation.
- Self-care: How to care for oneself so that you can care for others.
- Communicating with care: Reiterate the do's and don’t's of communicating effectively from PACK.
- Medicolegal responsibilities: Batho Pele principles, Confidentiality, Reporting obligations, Consent.
2. Steps to guide safe practice
PART 1: definitions and management of the adult victim-survivor
- Legal definitions of sexual offences.
- Your approach to victim-survivors of sexual offences.
- The path a victim-survivor follows to get the right help.
- Step 1: Inform/provide emergency medical care and management of the adult.
PART 2: Management of the adult victim-survivor continued
- Step 2: inform adult about legal options/mandatory reporting if applicable.
- Step 3: non-urgent medical care, referral, recording and follow up of the adult victim-survivor.
PART 3: management of children who have been sexually abused (appropriate guidelines for those <18 years old)
- Step 1: provide emergency medical care & management of the child.
- Step 2: reporting processes for the child.
- Step 3: non-urgent medical care, referral, recording, and follow up, of the child.
3. Working within your facility: health system strengthening
- Using the resources in your health facility: Facility supplies, facility staff, essential services and process flow.
- Using the resources in your community: Mapping support networks in the community.
4. Self-care for the HCW: utilising the services available
- Self-care and stress management resources.
- How to have a supportive team conversation.
- Useful support services.