IAFN and NSVRC are hosting a webinar June 10th from 2-3:30pm ET, Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Exams and VAWA 2005: Payment, Practices, Successes and Directions for the Future. The session will focus on research conducted by Urban Institute on exam payment. Interested in the topic? Check out this related article over at Vox that should stir up some discussion for sure.
{The Urban Institute’s full report can be found here. (PDF)}
Apologies for the absence yesterday–I am battling a migraine that is getting the best of me and it was just not a good day. But I am trying to muscle through it (as I post from ORD on my way to MCI), and this webinar is worthy of notice. SAMHSA has been hosting a Girls Matter webinar series and the next offering in the series is one called Digital Girls: Confession, Connection and Disconnection.It will be held May 20th from 3-4:30 pm ET. Rachel Simmons is one of the featured speakers (perhaps you’ve read Odd Girl Out?). It should be a good session, particularly for those of you who work with adolescents frequently. Details after the jump:
I’m getting ready to head to Kansas City for the Forensic Investigations Conference–if you’re going to be there please come by and say hello. It was a pretty lovely weekend in our household, but by Sunday I was putting all of my people on planes, so last night I spent the evening dividing my time between perusing my Twitter feed and binge watching The Newsroom (damn you, HBO To Go!). Here’s what caught my eye since last we spoke:
Perhaps I am just feeling a bit raw because this morning we put my spouse’s best friend on a plane for her 2nd deployment, this time to Afghanistan, but as hard as I tried, I couldn’t come up with a worthy forensic post. So, instead, I think I’ll celebrate the fact that it’s Mother’s Day weekend, and we are lucky enough to have the girl child in town with us. This clip caught my eye and I thought it was perfection (oh, how I love StoryCorps). For all of you moms, stepmoms, grandmoms, and other maternal figures out there, as well as everyone who may be thinking about their own moms, here’s a bit of weekend loveliness. Enjoy.
Sorry for the late notice, but this is an intriguing one: BWJP is hosting a webinar next week, Holistic Safety Planning Using an Alternate Risk Assessment Framework. It will be held May 13th from 2-3:30pm ET. Dr. Sherry Hamby is the featured speaker and will be presenting her research as a part of the session. Certainly discussions of a new safety planning tool for IPV patients is relevant for many of us working in the field, so if you can attend, it should be pretty interesting.
I had this article bookmarked to post when I returned, and coincidentally, my friend Linda Reimer just sent it out to the IAFN community today, so glad we’re all on the same page today. Medscape published an article last week, Emergency Contraception After Rape. It’s available for free, but registration for the site is required (also free). A good one to print and share with members of your team.
Who schedules the start of a brand new off-site project with a steep learning curve the day after she returns from vacation? This girl. So no prolonged post today. Just want to make sure you’ve seen some of the latest on campus sexual assault, including the White House Task Force report published last week, the associated resources at the NotAlone.gov site, and the substantial NY Times article in this Sunday’s paper, Fight Against Sexual Assault Holds Colleges to Account. Google campus sexual assault and you’ll find plenty that’s been written in the past week (including this Slate article, bookmarked for my metro ride tomorrow), but this is what I’ve been working my way through since last we spoke…still catching up post-Argentina.
In my haste to get my life back to normal, I almost forgot it’s Nurses Week, so a happy one to all of my nursing colleagues out there. This week marks a year since three women (and the child of one of the women) escaped from the home of Ariel Castro in Cleveland after a decade in captivity, and the local Fox affiliate interviewed the nurses involved in their care at MetroHealth that night when they were brought in.
I’m on vacation this week, so I’ve dipped into the archives for favorite posts. Today’s offering: a guest post by one of my most valued colleagues and frequent collaborators, Jennifer Pierce-Weeks, a 10 Things list on Program Management…
I’m on vacation this week, so while I’m gone I have dipped into the archives to bring back some of my favorite posts. Today’s offering is one of the many clinical guides offered on FHO, and a relatively popular topic of professional conversation these days: Alternate Light Source Use for Identifying Bruising…
I’m on vacation this week, so while I’m gone I have dipped into the archives to bring back some of my favorite posts. Today’s offering: Testifying to an Opinion…
I’m on vacation this week, so while I’m away I’ve dipped into the archives for a popular past post. Today’s offering: from the very favorite 10 Things category: Statements I would Prefer Never to Hear Again. Enjoy!
I am on my way to Argentina, but wanted to leave you with a new full-text post before I jet off. This week’s offering is actually a law review article, and I post it because it’s an important perspective from the legal profession about a conversation we should be having more of (or really, just having since I don’t know that I’ve ever heard the topic mentioned in any formal way). Click through for details:
I have had conversations with close friends about some issues around professionalism in forensic nursing, but I had not considered writing about it at any length until I had a frustrated email from an FHO reader who was wondering if I had recognized this problem for myself. Her concern was regarding a colleague’s behavior in multidisciplinary meetings and how it reflected on the rest of the team, and sure, I’ve seen breaches in professionalism at SART and MDT meetings before. But I also have seen them in court, at conferences, in classes I teach—lapses in professionalism have the potential to be pretty ubiquitous. (Of course, it’s not just in nursing—all disciplines have their issues. But I can only write what I know, so that’s the focus here.) What constitutes professionalism, though, is hard to pin down. Yes, there are some things that feel universal to me—try really hard not to don’t drop the F-bomb in professional meetings or on the stand; don’t use text abbreviations in professional emails (also: complete sentences are awesome); clean, unwrinkled clothing and good hygiene are non-negotiable in any professional setting (except on shift—then I’ll settle just for the hygiene part). But many of my views are deeply personal and represent my own particular set of values and ideals. So as a way to start the conversation on a larger scale, I figured I’d bring you a new 10 Things list: Professionalism Fundamentals. Many of you will have additional insight, so I invite you to add to the dialogue in the Comments section, should the spirit move you. And naturally, feel free to disagree in the Comments, as well—this is 100% the world according to Jen, after all.
A new research brief from the CDC, the Intersection of Intimate Partner Violence and HIV in Women (PDF) is now available. Don’t just read the article, though–make sure to follow the footnotes for some excellent references that delve into this topic further.
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, the US Department of Justice has newly published statistics on nonfatal domestic violence (PDF). Not surprisingly, intimate partner violence accounted for the greatest proportion of domestic violence reported, and in total accounted for 15% of all violent victimization during this time period. However, domestic violence victimizations are down overall from 1994, and intimate partner violence decreased between 1994 and 2012 at a rate greater than violence committed by other family members. Click through for some more of the relevant highlights:
I have had a lot of emails asking if I will be at the EVAW Conference this week in Seattle–many good friends are out there, but I will not be. I am heading to Indianapolis on Wednesday to teach some of the advanced SANE sessions at the INCASA Conference, so I am looking forward to seeing many FHO readers there (and if we have never met, please come introduce yourself–I love meeting readers). And then I am heading to Argentina for a week of food and wine with my best friend. I will not be working (it’s 100% vacation), but I will be rerunning some of FHO’s greatest hits the week I’m gone, so the site won’t be dark. However, I *was* working a bit this weekend, and managed to do a decent amount of reading–here’s what caught my interest since last we spoke:
FORGE has an upcoming webinar, Stalking Basics and Transgender Individuals, May 9th from 2-3:30pm CT. Rebecca Dreke from the Stalking Resource Center will be the featured speaker. Details after the jump:
The National Health Collaborative on Violence and Abuse is hosting a webinar, Human Trafficking: The Role of the Health Care Provider, May 14th, 12-1:30pm PT (for some reason the registration link says April 23rd, so hopefully they will get that fixed). Free CMEs are available (sadly, no CEUs for nurses). Click through for details: