Jun
29
A Little Light Reading While I’m on Vacation
June 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Gang, in a few hours I will be boarding a flight to my happy place, the mountains of Colorado. And I have actually taken the rest of the week off–through the holiday, in fact. So I am going to try something out here–I’m not going to work while on vacation. This is tough for me. [...]
Jun
28
Basic Geriatric GYN Exam
June 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment
In caring for elderly sexual assault and abuse/neglect patients, there are so many normal variants that many of us are less familiar with. There are also alterations to the exam process that may need to happen to better accommodate limitations in mobility, cognition, etc. Medscape has a nice CE offering on basic GYN exams for [...]
Jun
24
Co-Occurring Disorders
June 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment
The Family Justice Center Alliance has a summer webinar series beginning July 1 on co-occurring disorders in domestic violence cases. You can see the complete series schedule and registration information after the jump. All webinars are free of charge, but require pre-registration to attend:
Jun
23
Bullying in Schools
June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Massachusetts passed a comprehensive bullying law this spring in response to the suicide of a teen girl who had been bullied (Slate did a nice brief piece on it if you’re interested in the details, but don’t want to slog through the legal language). Now the Boston Globe has started a periodic series on bullying, [...]
Jun
22
Nursing Response to Elder Mistreatment
June 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment
IAFN has released a curriculum for educators, Nursing Response to Elder Mistreatment. “The goal of this course is to help nurses acquire essential knowledge and skills to appropriately respond to elder mistreatment. This course prepares nurses to integrate nursing and forensic sciences into the care of vulnerable older adults who have been mistreated or are [...]
Jun
21
New Webcasts from AEquitas
June 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment
A happy Monday to you all. I am pleased to report that over at our website, AEquitas has webcasts of previously delivered webinars: Battered Women Charged With Crimes and Alcohol Facilitated Sexual Assault. You can find the links to access them here (scroll down to the bottom of the page). You’ll also find a listing [...]
Jun
18
Friday Wrap-Up
June 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment
It’s been lovely being at home this week. Next week, back on the road, first to celebrate NSVRC’s 10th anniversary (hope to see some of you there!) and then on to DC to get some serious work done before (dare I say it) a bit of vacation in the Colorado Rockies. Before I sign off [...]
Jun
17
STD Prevention Conference
June 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment
The CDC has made available audio recordings from this spring’s National STD Prevention Conference. Seeing as how STDs are ALWAYS popular on this site, I thought I’d post this. There’s some interesting stuff coming down the pike, and by the looks of the lineup at the conference, several issues were covered specifically, including new surveillance [...]
Jun
15
Two new resources just released that I wanted to post today. The first is from NSVRC: Sexual Violence in Later Life Information Packet. It includes a fact sheet, technical assistance bulletin, technical assistance guide, resource list, annotated bibliography and research brief. As today happens to be World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, this is particularly fitting.
Jun
14
Rape on the Reservation
June 14, 2010 | 2 Comments
Hat tip to the Oregon Attorney General’s Sexual Assault Task Force (who I am very excited to be doing some training for next month), for the link to this recent episode of Vanguard, Rape on the Reservation. “One in three Native American women will be raped in her lifetime. Correspondent Mariana van Zeller travels to [...]
