BULLYING: IT'S NOT OKAY (5HR)

Course overview

This course is for all nurses who provide care for children and youth or who work with adults who provide services to children at risk for bullying. Upon completion of this course, the learner should be able to: •Identify and give examples of four forms of bullying. •Define and give four examples of physical, emotional, and psychological characteristics that may indicate a child or youth is being bullied. •Describe the psychological characteristics of child and youth bullies. •Choose three components from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which includes data from the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health and American Psychological Association evidenced-based research, and provide three applications to enhance nursing practice for the prevention and intervention of bullying among children and youth. •List four factors that influence development of bullying behavior in children and youth. •Select three strategies intended to enhance nursing practice for preventing bullying among children and youth from the American Nurses Association Position Statement on the Nurse’s Role in Ethics and Human Rights: Protecting and Promoting Individual Worth, Dignity, and Human Rights in Practice Settings and the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics for Nurses. •Identify three guidelines for health care professionals from the American Academy of Pediatrics and explain the relationship to leadership in nursing for the prevention, intervention, and treatment of bullying. •Identify a strategy to enhance practice in the role of nurse clinicians, educators, advocates, and researchers in the prevention, intervention, and treatment of bullying affecting children and youth. This course is designed to enhance nursing practice in identification, prevention, intervention, and treatment of bullying affecting children and youth. It will define types of bullying and the effects bullying has on children, youth, and families. It will also identify populations most vulnerable to being bullied and settings in which bullying most often occurs. The etiological factors that lead children and youth to bully and behavior-change strategies for prevention will be reviewed. In addition, it will discuss interventions that nursing professionals can use to prevent bullying and to support victims and families. Students will review the American Nurses Association (ANA) position statement, The Nurse’s Role in Ethics and Human Rights: Protecting and Promoting Individual Worth, Dignity, and Human Rights in Practice Settings and the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses that informs the scope and sequence of enhanced nursing practice to prevent bullying in children and youth. Evidence-based research from the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), American Psychological Association (APA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) will be referenced.