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ANA has a recently updated CE offering on nurse victims of workplace violence. It’s your standard article-posttest format. Cost is $20 ($15 for ANA members) for 1.52 CEUs. The focus of this course is a bit different than what you might initially think–there’s more of a secondary trauma bent following victimization (rather than a lateral violence focus, as is often the case with a lot of these offerings).

Because the topic is so popular on this site, another online STD clinical course, this one from Boston University’s School of Medicine. It’s free of charge, but requires registration to participate. CMEs available (natch), but the course info specifies nurses as part of the target audience, as well. For those of you running sexual assault programs, this might be a good one to have your team members complete as a part of annual competency efforts–just have them print off the certificate of completion at the end (or whatever they provide for CMEs), and you can add it to their personnel files.

I haven’t done this one yet, so I’ll be interested in feedback…

Medscape has a short CME offering on suicide in the geriatric population: Sedatives & Hypnotics May Increase Risk for Suicide in Elderly Patients. 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ available (Family Physicians – maximum of 0.25 AAFP Prescribed credit(s)). This is a standard article-posttest format, based on a study published this month in BMC Geriatrics.

The Children’s Hospital of Denver has an archived grand rounds presentation on caring for LGBT patients and their families in pediatric and adolescent medicine that was initially presented last November. It’s a 40 minute video with Powerpoint slides, and I particularly like that it’s focused on peds, since that subset of this specialized patient population is even less well represented in the online continuing education offerings.

Sadly, they don’t provide CEs for video archives, so no love there.

Next week I will be traveling to the surface of the sun Bakersfield, CA and will be gone most of the week, so posts may be a bit lighter, depending on how my time ends up being use while I’m there. But that’s next week. This week, over at the sustainability site:

• A little business inspiration (that has already traveled far and wide across the web, but applies, nonetheless)
• A great overview of free software available to small businesses from a somewhat unlikely source
• A paper from the archives of the Alliance on Nonprofit Management on business plans vs. strategic plans
• And for your (wonky) reading pleasure, Andy Goodman’s 10th annual Summer Reading List

Have a great weekend, everyone!

I have had what could be benignly called a very long travel day (involving groundstops, flying through thunderstorms, airport power outages, and the like). It’s far later than I planned to be posting for today (actually yesterday now), so this is a short and simple one for those of you interested in traumatic stress and emotional trauma: from David Baldwin’s Trauma Information Pages, his comprehensive listing of online disaster mental health resources. I don’t normally just highlight a page of links as the sole content for a post, but this one is so exhaustive, I figured it’s a great resource to add to the arsenal.

A new funding alert is available from VAWNet for those of you interested in the money-end of things. You can read it in full here (PDF):

Peace@Work is offering a webinar (actually a repeat, since it was originally offered June 19th) on “Hate Crime as Workplace Violence & Prevention” June 25th at 4pm EDT. Cost is $20. You can check out a full description of the webinar and other upcoming webinars here. As the name implies, Peace@Work provides training on workplace violence and prevention, so their educational offerings are all in that vein.

Rutgers College of Nursing has 8 online courses on bioterrorism and emerging disease preparedness. They all carry contact hours and range from $10-$70 depending on the number of hours you earn (looks like it’s roughly $10 per CE, give or take a few bucks).

Thunderstorms here in the CLE and nothing but rain in this weekend’s forecast. Perfect weather for staying inside and putting together a new clinical guide for this site (hopefully to be released early next week). In the meantime, check out some of the previous ones here and here (this one remains the site’s most visited page). And head over to the Sustainability site for a couple goodies, as well:

• Networking for Good’s archived info on storytelling as an online fundraising technique
• A plug for the leadership and program management workshop we’re doing this year at the IAFN Annual Assembly (space is limited to 45, so register soon)
• A new Coordinator Q&A with Cindy Jennings from Dayton, OH that I’m sure you’ll enjoy.

Enjoy your weekend, everyone!

Crisis Care Network has an online training, Best Practices in Critical Incident Response in the Workplace. The course provides attendees with a video-enhanced overview of best practices in critical incident response services. This program summarizes the latest findings in evidence based behavioral medicine as it relates to psychological first aid, addresses the unique aspects of the provider’s role with the employer client and provides an overview of how to deliver critical incident response services in the workplace. This program covers:

In April, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (HRSA) held a webcast on cyberbullying. You can download the slides (PDF) from the webcast on their site, but unfortunately there’s no audio accompanying it. Still the slides have some good info and both prevention and intervention are addressed. There’s definitely an educator bent to the talk, but I think healthcare providers, particularly those dealings with kids/teens, will find a lot of the information helpful.

The Coming Home Project, a non-profit organization devoted to providing compassionate care, support and stress management tools for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, their families, and their service providers, has a series of videos and podcasts on a host of different issues related to the physical and mental health needs of returning service men and women.

It was a busy week at the sustainability site. I’m happy to return with a new Friday Q&A, this time from IAFN Past-President, Stacey Mitchell. You can read her fantastic responses to the questionnaire here. Also this week:

• A resource many of you know from this site, The Ultimate Educator and tools for creating courses for adult learners
• One of those simple, but amazing tools that can distill down the overwhelming into the doable: Performance Vistas’s Decision Selection Matrix
• A webinar (free!) over at the Goodman Center focusing on their recent survey on using online technologies instead of in-person meetings and conferences–they’ll be discussing the good, the bad, and I’m sure, the ugly during the 1-hour event (love their stuff, BTW).

That’s it for me–I’m knocking off early to spend time with my kiddo after being gone all week. Enjoy your weekend!

The newest funding alert (PDF) is available over at VAWNet for those of you interested in all things money. In this round:

The Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education has a series of grand round webinars on mental health issues for rural and frontier healthcare providers. CEUs & CMEs are available 1 year from the time of the original offerings, so all of these have CEs in place through at least November, ’09 (and 3 of the 4 well into Spring 2010). Access is free of charge; all are approximately 90 minutes long.

RN.com has a 1 credit offering on blast injuries available for $5. It’s your standard article-posttest format. Objectives include:

1.      Identify factors that affect blast injuries.
2.      Describe the types of injuries that can occur from explosions.
3.      Define the two major classifications of explosives.
4.      Describe basic mechanisms of blast injuries.
5.      Identify the types of injuries associated with blast mechanisms.
6.      Identify disorders that might be missed during an initial assessment.
7.      Identify management options for blast emergencies.
8.      Describe plans to care for survivors of blast injuries.

Well, folks–I’m still hoping to get a few of you to come forward to be the focus of our weekly SANE coordinator Q&A at the sustainability site. I could load it with all of my friends, but what’s the fun in that? The idea is to get some new voices out there and demonstrate the breadth of practice that is working around the country (and in fact, the globe, since we have a pretty international readership here and I know some of you are doing this work in Canada, the UK and Australia). If you’re interested, you can find the questionnaire attachment here. So no Friday Q&A this week. Instead we have:

• A couple resources for guidelines for using grant money, including grant report writing info
• A look at Google’s Youtube channel, Google for Non-Profits–all kinds of cool tools that are both free and easy to use
• A more in-depth peak at IAFN’s Online CE site; I know I posted on their death investigation webinar here yesterday, but if you go to the CE site, there’s an incredible array of offerings, all for pretty cheap (particularly if you are a member). And not just sexual assault either.

My guy turns 40 this weekend, so the celebrations continue here in the 216. I hope you’ll have a relatively celebratory weekend yourself. Enjoy!

IAFN is hosting a webinar July 28th from 2-3pm ET on Death Investigation: The Basics. Bobbie Jo O’Neal, RN, BSN, F-ABMDI, the Deputy Coroner with the Charleston County North Carolina Coroner’s office will be the featured presenter. She will cover coroner versus medical examiner systems, organizations whose influence can impact death investigations, the role of and skills used by a death investigator and suggestions for those interested in entering the field of death investigation. Members can register for $20 (non-members pay $30).

So tomorrow there won’t be any new posts, because I leave at the crack of dawn to go to DC for a day of, well, creating the next new website (and I won’t get home until basically the crack of dawn almost 24 hours later). Not to be a tease, but until I have a little more substance to give you I’m going to hedge my bets and just say this: funding came through on a developing institute that I am privledged to call my (next) new home. While prosecution will be its focus, a big piece will be helping the medical folks and the legal folks come together more effectively for training and testimony, specifically in the area of violence against women. Since web-based information sharing and archiving is one of the most efficient ways to reach the largest number of people, we’re hoping to put together a killer website (hence the trip to DC tomorrow). So I’ll be back Thursday with new entries, and soon, a new project and website to share.

More will be revealed…