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Course Overview

Human trafficking is an increasingly pervasive issue affecting individuals across all populations seeking healthcare services. However, many healthcare providers fail to recognize those who are experiencing trafficking. Even when trafficking is identified, the focus often shifts to rescuing victims rather than providing trauma-informed care. This lack of understanding about the complexities of trafficking leaves vulnerable individuals without the critical healing services healthcare can offer.

 This presentation will explore effective care strategies for trafficked persons, grounded in current best practices. It will cover essential topics such as universal screening for trafficking indicators, safety planning, and a healthcare response protocol that can be adapted to any healthcare setting. Both presenters bring extensive experience from primary care environments where they have worked directly with individuals identified as trafficking survivors. Consequently, this presentation will incorporate survivor insights, ensuring the information shared is relevant and rooted in lived experience.

Objectives:

  • List four potential indicators of human trafficking and how to report concerns.
  • Discuss two methods for trauma-informed universal screening for human trafficking in all patients presenting for care.
  • Outline four key steps in a response protocol tailored to their individual healthcare workplace setting.
  • Identify three community partners providing services for patients who have been trafficked.

PRESENTERS 

Dr. Anne Troy’s distinguished career spans 45 years of unwavering dedication to nursing and patient care. After earning her BSN from Rutgers University, she served in the Peace Corps in Honduras. She worked in refugee camps in Thailand, where she gained invaluable experience providing care to underserved populations. Specializing in pediatrics and psychiatric nursing, Anne has dedicated her career to caring for survivors and those wounded by trauma, offering compassionate care across the lifespan. She is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner at The Morgan Rae Center for Hope at Children’s Hospital New Orleans, specializing in child abuse pediatrics and advanced forensic nursing. She is a dedicated advocate for pediatric survivors of child sexual abuse, assessing, treating, and providing expert testimony for more than 500 children annually. Her research interests are multifaceted, including the impact of vicarious trauma on jurors serving in criminal trials, addressing and remediating Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in nurses, and advancing primary prevention strategies for abuse. She is a full-time undergraduate nursing faculty member at a local university, where she passionately educates and inspires the next generation of nurses. Her career is a testament to her deep commitment to the health and well-being of others, exemplifying her lifelong dedication to clinical practice and nursing education.

Deborah St. Germain, DNP, RN, AFN-C, SANE-A, SANE-P, IVSE-C, is an accomplished Advanced Forensic Nurse formerly practicing at the Jefferson Parish Coroner’s Office Sexual Assault Services in New Orleans. Additionally, she is a Graduate Faculty in the Forensic Nursing Program at Texas A&M University College of Nursing. She retired after 33 years of teaching graduate and undergraduate critical care, emergency nursing, and forensic nursing at a university health sciences center in New Orleans. As an experienced sexual assault nurse examiner, child sexual abuse evaluator, death investigator, and legal nurse consultant, she is actively involved in numerous critical initiatives. She is a member of the Louisiana Child Death Review Team and the Pregnancy Associated Mortality Review Team. She serves as the nursing representative for the Louisiana Senate Child Abuse Investigations Task Force and Co-Chairs the Louisiana State Nurses Association’s Nurses Against Trafficking Task Force. With a passion for empowering nurses at all levels, Dr. St. Germain is dedicated to advancing the nursing profession and enhancing healthcare quality through education, practice, scholarly writing, generalist and advanced forensic nursing certification, and accreditation. She earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) in Forensic Nursing from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, a Master of Nursing (MN) as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Parent-Child Nursing and Staff Development from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from Murray State University in Kentucky.


Enduring Modules - This module originated on 04/09/2025 and will remain available for CE credit through05/01/2027


Criteria for Successful Completion:

Live attendees must join the zoom link via the LMS site, be logged in for a minimum of 90% of the session, and successfully complete the attestation and evaluation. Upon completion, a CE certificate for 1.25 contact hours will be awarded. 

Recordings of the live session will be made available within one week of the live date. 

Asynchronous attendees must utilize the LMS to obtain resource information (if available), view 100% of recording(s), complete all modules, and successfully complete the attestation and evaluation. Upon completion, a CE certificate for 1.25 contact hours will be awarded.

No relevant financial relationships exist for any individuals in a position to control content of this educational activity.


NOTE:

The Academy of Forensic Nursing is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.


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