Clinical GuidesMar
23
Elder Financial Exploitation and Abuse
March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Here’s a really interesting multimedia site on financial expoitation of the elderly: from Dallasnews.com, Mary Ellen’s Will: The Battle for 4949 Swiss. The site provides the viewer with the story of Mary Ellen Bendtsen and includes case details, transcripts from interviews and video footage. Pay special attention to notes in the right hand column of [...]
Mar
23
An FHO Extra: DermAtlas
March 23, 2009 | 2 Comments
Have you visited DermAtlas? Fully searchable with photos galore…and a differential tool, to boot. Man, I love derm. Add that to your list of weird bits you know about me.
Mar
20
Weekly Wrap-up @ the Sustainability Blog
March 20, 2009 | 2 Comments
To make things easier for those of you going between the two blogs, I’m going to provide a weekly wrap-up of what’s over at the other site so I don’t end up drowning you with sustainability materials if that’s not your thing (and for many of my readers, I know it’s not). It was our [...]
Mar
20
I'm going on vacation (allegedly)…
March 20, 2009 | 3 Comments
Photo by Photobobil This weekend I’m off to my beloved mountain house, where I will allegedly be on vacation for a week. Allegedly, because we all know full-well that I will still be working, just from the Mountain Time Zone. However, I won’t be posting as much content next week, so please accept my apologies [...]
Mar
20
Emergency Contraception
March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment
I have found that while people are pretty interested in the topic of emergency contraception, there’s not a lot of understanding about how it does (or doesn’t work). In fact, I continue to be surprised at how many SANE/SAFE trainings out there don’t really cover much about EC beyond the type of meds and doses [...]
Mar
19
Injury Research
March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment
From VAWNet: The CDC has released their Injury Research Agenda for 2009-2018. You can see the full report here (PDF).
Mar
19
Sexual Assault in the Military
March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Tuesday, the Department of Defense released a new report on sexual assault in the military. Those of us who do this work won’t find the results particularly shocking (no glibness intended in that statement), but they are disturbing, nonetheless. Tuesday night CBS Evening News did a report on the story. You can watch the video [...]
Mar
18
Email subscriptions
March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment
If you’re trying to sign up for an email subscription to the site, please make sure you remember to click the link sent to your email once you’ve signed up for the subscription. If you don’t click on that, your subscription won’t be activated. I’ve noticed several subscribers have not yet activated their accounts. If [...]
Mar
18
Violence Against Native Women
March 18, 2009 | 1 Comment
Over at The Hub, they are featuring a page on Violence Against Native Women in North America. Aside from multiple short videos about the scope of the problem, there are also several good links. One of those is to Amnesty International‘s recent report, Maze of Injustice. Follow that link for even more (heartbreaking, disturbing, enraging, [...]
Mar
18
Pediatric Submersion Injuries
March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment
CMEweb has an offering on pediatric submersion injuries. This activity is approved by the American College of Emergency Physicians for 2.5 ACEP Category 1 credits (sorry, no CEUs, but they say the target audience includes nurses). This is a standard article-posttest format.
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