Category: Sexual Assault

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I’m back from vacation and we have a full week of posts to get to (they’ve been stacking up in my mailbox while I’ve been on the road). Let’s start the week with EVAW‘s Forensic Compliance Self-Assessment (DOC). They’ve made this tool available on their website, and if you’re interested in looking at your own program’s compliance, this is a great place to start.

NCVC is hosting a free webinar on SANEs and victim sensitive evidence collection, March 2nd from 1-2 pm ET. “This webinar aims to increase understanding about the role Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANEs) play in the proper collection of forensic evidence and in providing a supportive and empowering response to survivors. Participants will learn about how SANEs increase the probability of obtaining probative DNA evidence while minimizing trauma for survivors and how the involvement of SANEs increase prosecution rates.

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?

There’s some good stuff over at the Sustainability site this week. I hope you’ll check it out:

• *A new blog in town! NSVRC has added the Engaged Bystander blog. 
•  Now the Sustainability blog has a friend:)
• *An article that had me alternately laughing and a little embarrassed: 
•   6 words non-profits should avoid (for all you grant writing and 
•   marketing types out there).

I’m headed to DC this weekend where they’re apparently expecting wicked snow. Say a prayer to the travel gods for me, if you get the chance. Have a great weekend everyone (go Saints)!

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!

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.