I’ve been meaning to get a new clinical guide up, but this one has been a challenge. See, injury photography hasn’t been written up extensively in the literature. What is out there is by and large pretty old (you’ll see several Polaroid references in the resources I share). Still, all of these have something to offer forensic practice. As with everything I post, due diligence, please. Read through the materials and decide for yourself whether these are useful and relevant to your work. And if you have other resources and tools you like not already listed here, by all means send them on and I’ll be happy to include them with attribution.
Category: Sexual Assault
I had an email yesterday about finding CEUs for forensic nurses, which made me think that it’s probably a good time to remind people about the free CEUs available online from IAFN. If you haven’t yet checked them, I encourage you to do so, because, did I mention they’re free (unless you’re not a member, then they’re $10 each)? And they’re specific to forensic nursing, which is tough to find. As you know, a lot of the CEs out there are either too simple or too tangential to our work, so offerings like these are invaluable.
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Playground
Nest Foundation has produced an incredibly powerful film on child sex trafficking in America. Playground is being used to raise awareness of child commercial sexual exploitation. The foundation’s website promises other art-driven media campaigns and an educational curriculum for high school students to follow.
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Weekly Wrap-Up & AEQ
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 Violence Victims and Their Pets: The Link®, PAWS® and Prosecution Strategies: January 27th, 1:30-3pm ET
- *Battered Women Charged with Crimes: February 17th, 2-3:30pm ET
(You can see a complete list of our online and live trainings here.)
A quick thanks to everyone who contributed at the PIH site for medical assistance to Haiti–we were able to reach our goal without a problem.
It’s cold and gray here in the CLE: perfect for curling up in front of the fire with a good book and a glass of wine that incomplete book chapter you’ve been meaning to finish for one of your best friends. I guess you know where you’ll find me. Have a great weekend [and happy birthday, T!]
Donations and supplies are still desperately needed for Haiti. Please consider making a donation to Partners in Health at the FHO contribution site: http://act.pih.org/page/outreach/view/haitiearthquake/FHO.
MNCASA’s Sexual Violence Justice Institute is hosting a 4-part webinar series on the protocol development cycle for multidisciplinary teams, such as CCRs, SARTs and SMARTs. The 1st webinar will be January 25th, 12-1:30pm Central.
I’ve been remiss in keeping the sustainability site stocked with new posts. My travel schedule as such has meant only a couple posts over the past 2 weeks. So today’s wrap-up is a couple weeks of content, which sadly doesn’t amount to a ton of info. But what’s there I really like:
- * Meeting ground rules, something I’m a fan of. In my next life I am going to be a meeting consultant and teach people how to stop wasting people’s time. My dad once told me that the best meetings have no chairs, and I’m inclined to agree.
- * Compassionate leadership, because there’s no rule that says we have to eat our young in nursing…
I’m attempting to make my way home from Dallas today, so feel free to make a small offering to the travel gods on my behalf. For those of you with a 3-day weekend (not me–I’m on call Monday) I hope you take advantage of that extra day off and do something fabulous with your time. For the rest of us, well, a weekend’s worth of downtime still sounds pretty good. Hope it’s a great one!
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Hello, Gorgeous…
Anyone else seen the new SAFE TA website?
I love when things like this show up in my in-box (thanks, Kim!). Virginia has released a new document for healthcare providers: Virginia’s Healthcare Response to Sexual Assault Guidelines for the Acute Care of Adult and Post-Pubertal Adolescent Sexual Assault Patients. I am slowly (sloooowly) working my way through this document, but I am heartened to see such a focused document.
Time once again for a run down of some of the new and noteworthy articles in the current literature. All of these (but one) are from the December/January issues. As always, please keep in mind this in no way a comprehensive list; simply items that have caught my attention from a selection of peer-reviewed journals. Links lead to PubMed or publisher abstracts; from there you can choose what’s worth a.) paying for; b.) a pilgrimage to your nearest medical library; or c.) downloading via the full-text access you possibly have at your disposal.
January is a pretty slow month for online events, but there are a couple of things I’d like to bring to your attention. The first is that January is stalking awareness month. You can find a wide variety of resources and ways to promote awareness at their dedicated site. One of the things I particularly like is their 31 Days of Status Updates (PDF), which gives you daily crafted messages to use for Facebook updates or Twitter messages.
Welcome back. Hope your holiday was a good one (and your up-coming week a short one). Over at Medscape they have a piece on conditions that mimic child sexual abuse findings. It’s a reprint of Horner’s article originally published this fall in the Journal of Pediatric Health Care.
[Don’t forget, you have until Wednesday, December 23rd at noon ET to be eligible for a copy of the Child Abuse Quick Reference, 2nd Edition. Just answer the question here to enter your name into the random drawing.]
This week, over at the sustainability site, some good stuff for your perusal:
- *The Nonprofit Risk Management Center’s calendar of 2010 webinars is now available
- *One of my favorite short pieces on nonprofits and the economy
Something else I’d like to pass along is this article from the Psychiatric Times sent to me by one of my partners: The Medical Decision Making Capacity of Patients with Dementia. A lot here on consent issues and definitely worth a read.
Don’t forget to check out the Canada page–Sheila has provided a few new resources, including the Canadian Criminal Code with applicable sections for forensic clinicians highlighted.
And finally, on a personal note, this has been a challenging week for my family as we face unexpected illness. Next week, posts may be sporadic as my father has surgery and then begins his long recovery. If you are the praying kind, please add an extra one for us. However, we are a family that also understands that laughter may be as healing as prayer, so in that spirit, I leave you with a link that I hope you will find as funny as I do (with thanks to Judy for finding it first). Clearly I am going to have to adopt some new terminology in my lectures…
Enjoy your weekend.
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Briefing on Human Trafficking
On Monday, Sen. Wyden (D-OR) held a briefing on Monday on the impact of human trafficking. Among those who briefed were Rachel Lloyd (GEMS), Brad Myles (Polaris Project) and Sgt. Byron Fassett (Dallas PD’s High Risk Victims and Trafficking Squad).
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Spot the Rape Myths
Welcome to a new feature here at FHO called “Spot the ____ Myth”. Today, we’ll focus on sexual assault. See how many rape myths you count in this news story on the sexual assault of a middle school student in California:
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 want to peruse: research on sexual assault and unconsciousness.
Next week (and for the better part of the rest of the month), we will be looking back at some of the best offerings from 2009 here at FHO, and maybe kick in a new clinical guide for good measure. Don’t forget about the excellent webinar being hosted by SAFE TA next week on timing considerations for sexual assault exams (12/15). Thursday or Friday we will also unveil our next giveaway, sponsored by our good friends at G.W. Medical Publishing.
Tonight is the first night of Hanukkah, so for all of you celebrating, may your table sag under the weight of latkes and soofganiot (potato pancakes and doughnuts for those of you who don’t speak Jewish). We will be rocking some falafel for our celebration, assuming we get our furnace to work (it’s a balmy 58 degrees inside my house right now). I know Hanukkah is the festival of lights and some degree of flame is involved, but particularly on night one, even 4 menorahs probably won’t generate enough heat to fuel our little party.
In the spirit of the holiday, I leave you with this classic clip. Enjoy and have a great weekend!
ReachMD has a new podcast available now on the spread of HIV through sexual violence against women. It’s part of their Clinician’s Roundtable series. Access is free, but you must register to access the site. You have the choice of listening online, downloading the podcast for later review or downloading transcripts of the session. You can also listen live on XM Satellite radio–scheduled times are on the site.
Time once again for a run down of some of the new and noteworthy articles in the current literature. All of these are from the November/December/January issues. As always, please keep in mind this in no way a comprehensive list; simply items that have caught my attention from a selection of peer-reviewed journals. Links lead to PubMed or publisher abstracts; from there you can choose what’s worth a.) paying for; b.) a pilgrimage to your nearest medical library; or c.) downloading via the full-text access you possibly have at your disposal.
I love when I run into interesting information from previously unexplored sources. The New York Academy of Sciences has archived materials from a conference put on in November 2005, Violence and Exploitation of Women and Girls. This is a particularly interesting one because the site provides media, as well as related resources and a report generated from the proceedings. Although this is a few years old, there’s a lot of information here, so it’s worth sifting through it to see what’s useful in your own work.
The Sexual Violence Justice Institute at MNCASA is hosting a webinar, December 14th from 12-1:30 pm CST–Safe Harbors Youth Intervention Project: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Violence Prevention. Participation is free, but preregistration is recommended.
Just a quick reminder: you have until Wednesday at noon ET to enter the Sexual Assault Quick Reference giveaway. Head over to the post and leave your comment to be eligible!
SAFE-TA (a project of IAFN) is offering a free webinar December 15th at 2pm, ET: Timing Considerations for Sexual Assault Examinations. Presented by Jack Ballantyne, Ph.D. and Pam Marshall, M.S., this webinar will offer advanced education to practitioners on issues involving timing of evidence collection, advances in forensic DNA technology, and factors affecting time since intercourse intervals.