Head over to VAWnet for an excellent new blog post from them on the connection between sexting and sexual violence. Make sure to spend some time clicking thru the links, particularly their special collection, Safety and Privacy in a Digital World.
First off, thanks for the lovely comments and emails from last week’s post. I heart FHO readers in a big way. Secondly, I know it’s not Monday where most of you are, but it is Monday here (albeit really, really early on Monday here). So since I’m awake, how about a run down of what I’ve been reading since last we spoke:
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44
I’m waiting to board my flight to Tokyo. By the time I land I will be 44. Forty three was an extraordinary year for me, full of great love and great laughter. I can only hope 44 will be as sweet. Now’s as good a time as any to send out a note of gratitude to you all– my friends and colleagues who read this site, who make the work so rewarding and who constantly challenge and shape me as a professional. You also helped make 43 something truly special. So as I wait to get on this ridiculously long plane ride, all that’s left for me to do at this point is ponder my very favorite question: what’s next?
Talk to you all from the other side of the date line…
The next SAFEta webinar is one near and dear to my heart: Sexual Assault and the Military Patient. It’s going to be held July 9th at 2pm ET. Sasha Rutizer is the featured presenter, and as an aside, she and I will be doing a live session together at the IAFN conference this year in Anaheim on the related topic, Navigating Military Justice: The Forensic Nurse’s Role as Witness and Expert Consultant. Hope you can join us for that.
Here’s an interesting one for those of us who spend a lot of time in court (or working to prepare others to testify): the National Child Protection Training Center is offering a webinar, Juror Expectations of Evidence in Child Maltreatment Prosecutions June 20th at 2pm CT. Cost for attendance is $30. From the website:
Much attention has been given to the “CSI Effect” including arguments that no such effect exists or even that it favors the prosecution. This session will address what research shows juries expect generally in sexual assault cases and how child sexual abuse cases can be presented to help meet these expectations. This presentation is useful for both investigators and prosecutors.
These next two weeks are going to be weird–going to Asia turns my head inside out, so bear with me, please. We’ll start this short week off with a great webinar. Wish I had had more notice on this one, but hopefully some of you will still be able to attend. The National Health Collaborative on Violence and Abuse is offering Gun Violence: The Healthcare Provider’s Role in Prevention on June 4th from 2:30-4pm ET. There are CMEs for docs, but sadly none for nurses on this one.
Going into the Memorial Day Weekend I leave you with this powerful video from TEDMED:
Time once again for Articles of Note, our monthly review of what’s new and noteworthy in the peer-reviewed literature. This is a particularly good list–there’s just so much that’s interesting in the journals right now. As always, email me if you want the word doc. Otherwise the embedded doc should have working hyperlinks (thank you Scribd for finally making that change) and is easy to print.
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Big “C” Conversations
When I was in Kansas City last week one of my sessions was geared toward emerging issues in forensic healthcare. I was asked to speak on the topic, and while I understand that the request was geared more towards a “specific populations and circumstances” kind of talk, I decided to take it in a slightly different direction. Instead we talked about some of the Big “C” Conversations I have been having with people in my travels. The kinds of conversation topics that are almost universally applicable no matter where people are practicing, whether it’s North America or Australia, rural or urban. That’s not to say that the conversations about specific populations and circumstances aren’t also universal–they absolutely are. But they aren’t emerging issues. They have been an important part of our clinical knowledge base from the very beginning. Some of the issues I’ve noted below have been, too–but we haven’t necessarily explored them as much as a collective of healthcare providers as I’d like to see.
I couldn’t help but post this today after spending quite a bit of time last week talking with folks about social media use and its reflection on our professional selves. It’s a very short piece (under 7 minutes), and while this isn’t the most electric talk I’ve heard from the folks at TED, the content was on point:
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Welcome KC Readers
Greeting to all of the new readers from last week’s conference in Kansas City. Just a reminder that if you subscribed to FHO, you will need to verify the subscription, which will show up as an email from Feedburner in your inbox. If you don’t see it check your spam folder.
The Fenway Institute’s National LGBT Health Education Center is offering a webinar May 22nd at 2pm ET, Same-Sex Domestic Violence: Considerations, Suggestions and Resources. Information after the jump:
The Sexual Assault Report (disclosure: I am on the editorial board) has made public the recent article by Nancy Ritter from the National Institute of Justice, Untested Evidence in Sexual Assault Cases: Using Research to Guide Policy and Practice (PDF).
JAMA Pediatrics has the new article by David Finkelhor and colleagues available online in advance of the print version: Violence, Crime and Abuse Exposure in a National Sample of Children and Youth. If you aren’t a subscriber, you can read a synopsis of the research over at MedPage Today for free. Allegedly there are CMEs attached the MedPage article, although I couldn’t see where that information was available once I clicked on the article link. Maybe you’ll have better luck.
No articles to recount this week–I spent Mother’s Day thoroughly engaged with my family to the exclusion of all things media-related. So a quick post about an upcoming webinar on a topic not widely covered: FORGE is offering a session, Disability and Transgender Survivors: Empowering Providers Who Work with Multiply Marginalized Populations. It will be held May 23rd from 2-3:30 pm CT.
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In Memorium: Lydia Vandiver
The forensic nursing community has lost a great friend and colleague, Lydia Vandiver. Our thoughts and prayers are with Lydia’s family, her colleagues and her community. She loved this work and I am personally grateful I had the opportunity to get to know her. She will be missed.
Apologies for my absence, but I have been decidedly disconnected these last couple days while at JFTB Los Alamitos. I will try and make it up to you next week, but I will be here for the bulk of the week, so let’s see how it goes (and if you’ll be in Kansas City for the conference please come by and say hello).
The National Alliance to End Domestic Violence is hosting a webinar on Elder Abuse: Domestic Violence in Later Life. It will be held May 23rd from 12-1:30pm ET.
Have you seen the CDC’s new Understanding Evidence site? It’s specifically geared toward those of us who work in the area of violence, and really, please go spend some time with it. As a bonus–free nursing CEs upon completion of each module. If you’re not sure how to use the new interactive site PreventConnect has a webinar this Friday at 11am PT to help remedy that.
A quick post to wish everyone a happy Nurses Day (in the US, or International Nurses Day, which is Sunday–you pick). I’m heading out the door to SoCal for a couple different stops with the Marines (1st defense, then prosecution, so should be a lively week), but I managed to get a little reading done during my brief stop at home. Here’s what’s caught my attention since last we spoke:
First, what a lovely day I spent with Vermont nurses today. Really interesting conversation (plus the location, which I tweeted, was awesome). Second, between training Army lawyers earlier in the week and training 2 sets of Marine lawyers next week, can I tell you how nice it was to be in a room full of clinicians? Not that I don’t love me some lawyers, but still…