I’ve been wanting to start publishing guides on this site for some time, and just haven’t gotten around to doing it until now. Because there’s so much content on this site (and still more out there in the interwebs) I figured it might be useful periodically to provide a post that gives you some ideas of how to use the content more broadly than just individual professional enrichment.
The Center for American Nurses is offering a 4 part webinar series on emerging legal issues in nursing, beginning with part 1, Emerging Issues in Electronic Health Records for Nurses, Wednesday, April 15th. The webinar begins at 7pm ET and runs 75 minutes. CEs are available for nurses; each webinar will net you 1.25.
The Family Justice Center Alliance is hosting a webinar on the history and future of the Family Justice Center movement. It’s being held April 2nd from 9-10 AM Pacific Time. Casey Gwinn, JD (PDF) will be the featured presenter. Preregistration is required and space is limited. You can go here to register.
UPDATE: You can access a PDF of the presentation here; video here.
This week is Youth Violence Prevention Week and NCJRS has a site dedicated to the topic. By clicking on the right hand column of the main page, you can access fully-linked separate pages on stats; gun violence; youth violence; research; school violence; and gangs. Most of the links lead to federal sites (most of those within DOJ/NIJ), so it’s not definitive, but it’s pretty extensive.
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.
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 each section–they will guide you to resources and information related to financial exploitation and other issues discussed in the story. Even the viewer feedback is fascinating on this site…
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 to give. So I was happy to run across Contraception Online’s downloadable slides on the topic.
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 in advance. I will be posting a few guides while I’m gone, so check back for those. The 1st one up will be using content from this site for staff updates. Stay tuned!
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 inaugural week; thanks to all of you who made it such a great one.
(I promise next week we’ll get back to business as usual, and not have so many announcement-y posts.)
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 here. Wednesday, they followed up with a piece on whether US military policies endanger female soldiers (clip and story here).
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, _______ your adjective here) information on the issue.
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From Medscape: A CE offering on mild TBI and transient, persistent symptoms after injuries. This offering specifically looks at TBI in kids and teens, and is based on a study published in this month’s issue of Pediatrics. 0.25 CEUs/CMEs available with completion of the online test. Registration on Medscape is free and required.
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Sorry that this is a very last minute post (I just got the announcement for it this morning, so subscribers, you’re probably not going to even see this until it’s too late), but the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices is holding a webinar TODAY (3/17/09) from 2-3:30pm ET titled The Future of DNA: Collecting DNA in High Volume Crimes.
And we’re live! I am pleased to announce the unveiling of the National SANE Sustainability TA blog (a project of the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, funded by the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women). Because I maintain that site, in my role as project manager, you will start to see some cross-referencing between the two blogs. Although the project focuses on sexual assault (across the lifespan, BTW), the resources posted there will be useful for any program manager, particularly nonprofit healthcare program managers. Sadly, there’s no email subscriber service there, but there is an RSS feed for your daily doses of sustainability information…http://www.nsvrc.org/SANE-blog.
JWI, who has produced many quality teleconferences on domestic violence topics, has recently announced their latest one: The Chris Brown/Rihanna case: What we can learn from the media’s coverage of this case to use in our work with teens and their families. The teleconference is scheduled for Tuesday, March 24th, from 12pm-1pm ET; cost is $25 for non-members (members attend for free). Pre-registration is required.
NDAA just published a couple new bulletins, including one co-authored by Joanne Archambault, Kim Lonsway (both of EVAW), and David Lisak (who you may know from his research on undetected rapists). False Reports: Moving Beyond the Issue to Successfully Investigate and Prosecute Non-Stranger Sexual Assaults (PDF) is probably another one of those items to share at your next SART or MDT meeting. Honestly, though, the sheer amount of misinformation circulating in our professional circles about the rates of false reports makes this a must-read regardless of your profession.
Credit: Kevin Moore, In Contempt via Alas, A Blog