Many of you have probably followed the case of the 2 Texas nurses who reported an emergency department physician’s negligent practice to the state medical board and were ultimately prosecuted for doing so. Now Medscape has a follow-up article on the story with some excellent points for us to consider about our professional and ethical [...]

Lots of focus on training this week over at the sustainability site this week:
*A sampling of some of the excellent training events and conferences coming up in the next two months. March and April are always packed, and this year’s no exception. If you have money to spend on live events, there’s plenty to choose [...]

A few really interesting posts over at the sustainability site this week. Both gave me some things to seriously consider:

*Managing up, or the art of positioning people to effect positive change
*What do we teach the future nurse?

AVA has some good resources on their site. One of the ones I really like is this 2009 presentation on the economic impact of violence, given by  Dr. Amy Bonomi and Dr. Phaedra Corso. It’s definitely not the highest quality video, but the content is good stuff, and this is one of my favorite topics. [...]

This week over at the Sustainability site:

*The beauty of under-reacting, and why you might want to indulge in a
  little under-reacting yourself

*Social networking and Twitter: check out who else is expressing 
 themselves in 140 characters or less…

By the way, this week marks my last full week at home for the foreseeable future. Starting Monday, I will be on the [...]

This week over at the sustainability site, a few goodies for your perusal:

*A cross-post on This Emotional Life, and sustaining ourselves in the work
*SANE competency and role expectations: a few links to help provide some guidance

I’d also like to draw your attention to the AEquitas site–we have a couple webinars coming up that might be of interest:

*Protecting Domestic [...]

January 20th, EmployeeScreenIQ is hosting an interactive roundtable discussion via webinar on violence in the workplace. The session will be held from 2-3pm ET. Preregistration is required. 
I keep putting this topic up on the site because I think it’s one area where forensic clinicians can really push our institutions to be accountable and proactive in [...]

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This week, over at the sustainability site, some good stuff for your perusal:

*The Nonprofit Risk Management Center’s calendar [...]

I wanted to point you toward a couple interesting items over at the sustainability site this week:

*A step-by-step guide to creating a social media strategy, a topic many of      you have asked me about.
*A fascinating article on negotiating, definitely worth the read.

I’ve also posted another document on the Canada page that non-Canadian readers may also [...]

Heading home from a long, but satisfying week in Miami working with prosecutors at our sexual assault institute. But before I get on a plane, I just want to mention a couple things over at the sustainability site:

*A plethora of business management and leadership audio and video  podcasts from Harvard Business Publishing (a favorite read [...]

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