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)
In honor of our 5,000th hit (which for a little niche blog like mine that hasn’t quite been around for 3 months, is something) I added a world map widget to the bottom of the page yesterday. Just to see where readers are visiting from (the one thing my stats page can’t tell me). And while the widget doesn’t seem to be keeping pace with the site (it’s reporting 36 hits since yesterday and we actually have more than 10x that figure), it’s fun to see that we have friends in the UK, Canada and Australia thus far.
Thanks for reading, everyone.
Since I loaded you with posts yesterday (and according to my stats page A LOT of you are working your way through the cervical images today–wow, people), a nice bite-sized podcast to have with your morning latte. The CDC, always a reliable source for content, has a podcast on Blast Injuries: What Clinicians Need to Know. It clocks in at under 3 minutes–barely enough time to set the speed and incline on your treadmill. However, if this brief audio isn’t enough to satisfy your need for info on the subject…
Last week, in a comment about the STI Clinical Guide, I was asked about cervical images unrelated to STIs. Having searched a bit, I found a few sites that provide images to review. One of the best was over at the Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research.
By way of The Hub, April is also Genocide Prevention Month.
I think that’s all of them, now.
HRSA‘s Maternal and Child Health Bureau is hosting a free webinar on cyberbullying April 22nd at 3pm ET. It’s scheduled to last 90 minutes and will feature information on prevention and response to cyberbullying, including legal and policy issues. Pre-registration is required.
Nursingceu.com has a CE offering on motor vehicle crashes. It’s the standard article-posttest format and will net you 2 CEUs (at a cost of $18). It caught my eye because it has a section on assessing the scene, which might appeal to some of you.
I’m a bit late to this story, but last week a federal court judge ordered the FDA to make Plan B available to 17 year olds without a prescription within the next 30 days and consider making it OTC for younger girls, as well. The judge essentially ruled that the FDA had acted in bad faith and in response to political pressure. You can read the story here, here, or here. Or listen to it here.
(Hat tip to FVPF)
Probably the most important thing that happened over at the Sustainability blog this week was that we got our comments widget fixed (and our 1st conversations have begun)! Also this week:
Next week I’ll be back in the CLE, posting regularly. Enjoy your weekend, everyone!
The Center for American Nurses is offering a 4 part webinar series on emerging legal issues in nursing, beginning with part 1, Emerging Issues in Electronic Health Records for Nurses, Wednesday, April 15th. The webinar begins at 7pm ET and runs 75 minutes. CEs are available for nurses; each webinar will net you 1.25.
This week is Youth Violence Prevention Week and NCJRS has a site dedicated to the topic. By clicking on the right hand column of the main page, you can access fully-linked separate pages on stats; gun violence; youth violence; research; school violence; and gangs. Most of the links lead to federal sites (most of those within DOJ/NIJ), so it’s not definitive, but it’s pretty extensive.
Have you visited DermAtlas? Fully searchable with photos galore…and a differential tool, to boot. Man, I love derm. Add that to your list of weird bits you know about me.
Photo by Photobobil
This weekend I’m off to my beloved mountain house, where I will allegedly be on vacation for a week. Allegedly, because we all know full-well that I will still be working, just from the Mountain Time Zone. However, I won’t be posting as much content next week, so please accept my apologies in advance. I will be posting a few guides while I’m gone, so check back for those. The 1st one up will be using content from this site for staff updates. Stay tuned!
To make things easier for those of you going between the two blogs, I’m going to provide a weekly wrap-up of what’s over at the other site so I don’t end up drowning you with sustainability materials if that’s not your thing (and for many of my readers, I know it’s not). It was our inaugural week; thanks to all of you who made it such a great one.
(I promise next week we’ll get back to business as usual, and not have so many announcement-y posts.)
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From Medscape: A CE offering on mild TBI and transient, persistent symptoms after injuries. This offering specifically looks at TBI in kids and teens, and is based on a study published in this month’s issue of Pediatrics. 0.25 CEUs/CMEs available with completion of the online test. Registration on Medscape is free and required.
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Sorry that this is a very last minute post (I just got the announcement for it this morning, so subscribers, you’re probably not going to even see this until it’s too late), but the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices is holding a webinar TODAY (3/17/09) from 2-3:30pm ET titled The Future of DNA: Collecting DNA in High Volume Crimes.
OVC‘s next Web Forum will be on providing services to victims of bullying. As with their other forums, you can submit questions in advance, and then return on March 18th at 2pm ET for the live discussion. To read more about the forum and the featured experts, click here. To submit questions, follow this link. An index of previous forum topics, with archived questions and responses, can be found here.
I was asked yesterday what my go-to resources are for information on the Web. If I had to put together my can’t live without list for growing myself professionally, what would be on it? Obviously, my choices are personal ones, based on my forensic specialties (SA, DV, elder abuse) and my other revenue-generating interests (technology, healthcare economics, writing, presenting). Probably not universally appealing stuff. But if pressed (which I was), you can check out my top 10 after the jump:
Davis Plus, those nice people who make the drug guides, have an online wound care tutorial that’s brief and easy to use (requires Flash). For those of you who need a little refresher on wound types and dressings (and some gnarly photos to go along with them), here’s a little quicky for your viewing pleasure. There’s also a self-assessment at the end, should you want to test your knowledge.
I had you at “gnarly photos”, didn’t I?