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CE1011 | Contact Hours: 1
Sexual Harassment Prevention
COURSE OBJECTIVES
The purpose of this course is to educate health care professionals on sexual harassment as well as how to combat sexual harassment in the workplace in order to foster a safer work environment. After completing this course, you will be able to:
1. Define sexual harassment and identify the types of sexual harassment.
2. Identify the steps to take when one experiences or witnesses sexual harassment.
3. Identify how to report sexual harassment.
4. Identify whistleblower protections for sexual harassment.
5. Identify the remedies that are available for sexual harassment.
6. Identify how to prevent sexual harassment.
*There’s some material in this course that’s specific to Illinois but there’s a lot of good information and this course is ANCC and Nursing Board approved so any RN or LPN/LVN can complete this course and receive credit for it.
RELEASE DATE
05/19/2022
EXPIRATION DATE
05/19/2024
AUTHOR
Jason Huxley, BS
CRITERIA FOR SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION
All learners must complete the entire activity and complete the evaluation to receive contact hours.
APPROVAL STATEMENT (ACCREDITATION INFORMATION)
This nursing continuing professional development activity was approved by the Ohio Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. (OBN-001-91).
In addition to states that accept American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) courses, CE Leaders is an approved provider by the Florida Board of Nursing, and a registered provider with the Arkansas State Board of Nursing, District of Columbia Board of Nursing, Georgia Board of Nursing, Kentucky Board of Nursing, New Mexico Board of Nursing, South Carolina Board of Nursing and West Virginia Board of Registered Nurses (Provider # 50-33450).
INTRODUCTION
Sexual harassment was first coined in the mid 1970s but has existed in the workplace for a long time and is still a problem today. Even as women comprise nearly half the workforce, sexual harassment in the workplace remains a major, pervasive, and troublingly unresolved problem in virtually every sector of the economy, from male-dominated to female-dominated industries and workplaces, and from low-wage and precarious jobs to high-wage professions. The Pew Research Center, for instance, found that 6 in 10 women and nearly 3 in 10 men say they’ve experienced verbal or physical sexual harassment or unwanted sexual advances in and outside the workplace, with 69 percent of women who have experienced harassment saying at least one incident happened in their workplace (1).
RESOURCES
1. Illinois Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Helpline: 877-236-7703
2. Illinois Department of Human Rights: 800-662-3942
3. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: 800-669-4000
REFERENCES
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2. U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Available at https://www.eeoc.gov/sexual-harassment. Last accessed on 1/31/22.
3. Illinois General Assembly. Available at https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs4.asp?DocName=077500050HArt.+2&ActID=2266&ChapterID=64&SeqStart=600000&SeqEnd=1393750. Last accessed on 2/1/22.
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