Sitting in the airport in Moline, IL, looking for something completely unrelated, and I came across this podcast from the CDC on electronic aggression. It’s a little over 12 minutes and looks at online bullying and youth violence. You can also view a transcript of the session on the same page, or download a PDF here. For more on the issue, you can check out their related page, which links to other resources, including a brief for educators and caregivers.
I’m a huge fan of The Moth, a nonprofit storytelling website (I think storytelling is the greatest form of communication ever). The site is a catalog of stories from people famous and not-so-much. Writers, comedians and musicians like Malcolm Gladwell, Moby & Lewis Black turn up for unscripted storytelling (that’s the rule) and it’s all captured on audio & published as podcasts. One of those storytellers is Ed Gavagan, a furniture maker and gang violence survivor whose personal story of victimization, and the climb back out is poignant and funny at once. He’s been featured on The Moth twice now, and both podcasts are worth listening to, if only to gain some perspective on the complexities of recovery and the realities of our patients’ lives after they leave our care.
Mickey Sperlich, a community-based nurse midwife, has been coordinating research on a study of PTSD in women in their childbearing year at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Specifically focusing on mothers with sexual abuse histories, she and colleague Julia Seng published a book, Survivor Moms: Women’s Stories of Birthing, Mothering & Healing After Sexual Abuse. One of my students introduced me to the book and their work last year, but I hadn’t come across anything that would fit with this site–until now.
HRSA has an online course available on addressing health literacy, cultural competency and limited English proficiency for clinicians. The course consists of 5 modules; CEUs/CMEs are available. All that’s available about the course is on the site page:
The newest Funding Alert (PDF) is available at VAWNet. I’m not sure why it hadn’t occurred to me to highlight the alerts here before now (it seems pretty relevant), but I will try and add them as they come out. If you don’t yet subscribe to the alerts and would like them to show up in your inbox every couple weeks, you can sign up here. In this round:
The Association of Reproductive Health Professionals has an archived webinar on the efficacy of emergency contraception. The webinar clocks in under 45 minutes and has 1.0 CMEs attached for physicians who complete pre- and post-tests. Access is free of charge and will be available through February 2010.
There aren’t that many offerings available on medical-legal documentation out there, so I was excited to come across this one from Contemporary Forums: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: An Expert Witness’s View on How to Make or Break a Case with Medical-Legal Documentation. However, I cannot tell you the specific focus of this session: the speaker is a legal nurse consultant with expertise in elder care, but the site has this program listed under psychiatric-behavioral issues (if anyone does this one, please let us know!). If she addresses IPV, sexual assault, child abuse, etc., I don’t know.
The Ash Institute at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government is hosting a webinar, Best Practices to Combat Human Trafficking: Collecting Data from Official Sources. The session will take place April 29th from 10am-12pm ET. It’s free of charge, but pre-registration is required.
The Michigan Public Health Training Center has an online CE offering, Youth Violence: It’s a Public Health Issue. 1.5 CEUs are available for their archived webcast, originally presented in Decomber ’08. It’s free of charge and lasts about 90 minutes.
Medscape has a new CME offering about dealing with disruptive physician colleagues, a funny euphamism that is more commonly referred to as lateral violence or bullying (PDF) in nursing (you can read Joint Commission’s newly implemented requirements on the issue here). In this case study the bad behavior extends to encounters with patients, as well as colleagues. Not forensic-specific, but an issue in our world, nonetheless.
Not much over at the Sustainability blog this week with my travels ovresees making it challenging to post. But there are a couple things I’d like to highlight for you this morning:
I’m off to a meeting here in DC and then will be stopping home long enough for a change of clothes before heading up to Newport and the Navy JAGs. However I really am trying to get a larger post up about use of Woods Lamps in medical forensic exams before end of the weekend, so stop back, please. You’ll have to bear with me, though–it’s the busy season for me and life’s going to be like this for quite some time…
Have a great weekend!
Hooray for bandwidth!!!
I’m back today with at least one post. I’m working on a bigger post, which I may be able to get done by this evening. But I will have been traveling 18 hours by the time I finally get to DC (starting at 4am Venice time), so forgive me if it doesn’t happen. For now, I’m hanging out in the Amsterdam airport and have just enough time before my flight to DC for a quickie. The University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurological Surgery hosted a webinar last summer on moving toward core competencies in injury prevention.
Well, I would have thought that on an Army post I would have all the comforts of home. Mind you, I’m not complaining (much)– the Burger King here is open late, and the people are super nice, and I’m told when it’s not an Italian holiday, the place is pretty bustling. And you know, as defenders of our freedom, these folks are first rate. But would it kill someone to install a high-speed internet connection in the hotel here? If you are reading this it must mean the (insert large number here) time I tried to post this it finally went through. Suffice it to say that unless things change radically for my connectivity, I will be back to regular posts sometime Thursday (in time for all of you subscribers to get a Friday morning email). Thanks for your patience!
It’s an interesting idea–using a computer game to provide education about genocide. That’s what mtvU has done with Darfur is Dying, “a narrative-based simulation where the user, from the standpoint of a displaced Darfurian, negotiates forces that threaten the survival of his or her refuge camp. It offers a faint glimpse of what it’s like for the more than 2.5 million who have been internally displaced by the crisis in Sudan.”
I’m headed out on the road today for a series of trips that will take me to Chicago, Vicenza Italy, DC and Newport RI over the next 13 days (look for me at a Continental gate in an airport near you). Posts will be a bit lighter, but should still be up regularly. Bear with me, though, if the spelling or grammar gets nutty–1st things to go when my brain is overloaded.
New from Medscape, a CE offering based on an article from the March 2009 issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Heightens Suicide Risk provides .25 AMA PRA Category 1 credits for physicians, free of charge. It doesn’t look like there are nursing CEs attached to this one, though.
If you’re feeling woefully uninformed when it comes to the clinical presentation of drugs of abuse, rn.com has a host of online CE courses on the subject. Most of them are $5 and provide 1 CEU after reading the materials and completing the corresponding posttests.
Okay, this isn’t online education information; it’s online educator information and it’s probably about time we got around to this. Because in this economy, not only are more and more of you coming to visit me on a regular basis, you’re also contemplating (or actually implementing) your own trainings. So allow me to point you toward a helpful resource.
This weekend has been yet another sad reminder of the epidemic of workplace violence. It’s obviously not a new phenomenon, but right now it seems to be happening with frightening frequency. The US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) actually has a tool for hospitals (cleverly known as the Hospital eTool) that addresses a wide variety of hazards in the workplace, such as blood-borne pathogens and medical lasers(!). There’s also a section on workplace violence.
I’ve posted a bit in the past about learning the languages of our patients, since using translators can present a host of challenges. Just learning some basic terms can help create relationships with our non-English speaking patients, even if translation is still necessary. Open Culture has a list of free, online language lessons available, and the variety is impressive. Be sure to scroll through the comments, as well, where readers have added sites of their own.
(Open Culture, via Lifehacker)