Forensic Healthcare Online

There’s been a lot of activity over at the Sustainability site this week, in large part due to the release of our 1st project bulletin, Sustainability 101: Long Range Thinking for Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program Managers. Thanks to everyone who’s sent me lovely comments about the report. Stay tuned, because our 2nd one, on writing business plans for SANE programs, will be released in a few weeks. Other happenings this week:

• A fantastic (and brief) blog post on a few easy ways to make your employees happy
• More publicity for the IAFN management/leadership session we’re doing in the ATL
• And we’re back with a new Friday Q&A, this week with Shalotta Sharp from Cuba, AL (BTW, if you’d like to be featured–and bring some nice publicity to your program–please contact me)

Next week, I’ll have some good stuff for you: our monthly Articles of Note, where we look at what’s recently published in the peer-reviewed literature; and a new clinical guide on, well, I’m not giving it away just yet. Let’s say for those of you doing DV/IPV clinical work in particular, this one should pique your interest.

I’m happy to report I’m heading to Colorado tomorrow for a week of decompression. I’ll still be working, of course (although I’m taking a couple days off), but I will be at altitude, surrounded by mountains in the high country, which chills me out like nothing else can. Hope you’ll be finding a similar source of serenity yourselves–MW, I’m talking to you, my friend.

Enjoy your weekend!

I know this is a site dedicated to online education and resources, but I just want to take a minute to point out a few talks I’m giving at some of the upcoming fall conferences that might be of interest. The biggie for me is the IAFN Annual Scientific Assembly, October 21-24 in Atlanta. I’m doing 2 sessions there: Using Today’s Technologies to Deliver Clinical Education: A Guide for Technophobes will be on Friday, October 23rd. That session will examine the variety of opportunities to participate in and create clinical education and should be a great opportunity to hear from participants about what’s being done around the world. And the one I’m even more excited about, the full-day leadership workshop (technically called NSVRC Leadership, though I’m not sure why), is on October 24th.

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The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape has a tutorial available for download on screening for sexual violence in the healthcare setting. This is a topic near and dear to my heart, and probably one we don’t talk about enough. You can download both the implementation guide (PDF) and the contents of the CD-ROM on which the tutorial was originally produced (warning: big file in zip form), free of charge. In addition to the tutorial, there’s a related publication, Put Down the Chart, Pick up the Questions (PDF), which also focuses on screening for sexual violence in the healthcare setting (I saw a similar tool in Illinois from their state health department).

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The Federal Interagency Workgroup on Child Abuse and Neglect has an archived webinar from August 2008 available for review: Is It Injury or Neglect? Improving Our Knowledge to Better Protect Children. The session discusses “efforts to better define neglect in the context of accidental injury and described models of child death case reviews that will lead to improved understanding, reporting, and prevention strategies.” The presenters represent public health, advocacy and fatality review organizations. A complete transcript of the webinar is also available.

Witness Justice has 2 new courses available. The first is Cultural Competency, which “covers how culturally appropriate and effective services can be created and provided by professionals in the domestic violence community and the importance of mastering culturally sensitive attitudes, skills, and behaviors.”

The second course is Working with Undocumented Survivors, which “will address specific issues for undocumented survivors of domestic violence. Special attention will be placed on the unique needs and considerations of immigrants.”

Registration is required, but participation is free.

I don’t have a wrap-up for you this week: I’ve been with the Army in Orlando all week, and these have been long days. Posts have been tough to get to with internet access only happening after roughly 10pm when I’m back in my hotel room. I’ll bring it back next Friday, don’t worry (maybe even with a few new publications I’ve been waiting patiently to share).

Interestingly enough, several of you have asked me to talk about my own practice a bit. So I figured I’d give you a little something different this Friday as I am winging my way back to the CLE (for a whole 44 hours until I get back on a plane). Here are 10 things making my life better right now. Not all of them are practice-specific, because my professional life is only in part centered on practice. But all of them are necessary as I attempt to keep the chaos under some modicum of control:

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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):

Featured in this edition:

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The Indiana Youth Institute has a podcast on sexting available on their website. I’m on the road with the Army this week and haven’t had a chance to listen to this one yet. But since there’s been a flurry of searches for “sexting” on the site recently, I figured this would be timely. I don’t even have any background on the speaker (just the sponsoring organization), so let us know if it’s worthwhile, please.

Gael Strack and Casey Gwinn (Family Justice Center Alliance) will be presenting a webinar August 6th at 9am Pacific on starting a family justice center in your community. Participation is free, but preregistration is required.

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IAFN is hosting a webinar Tuesday, July 28th from 2-3pm ET on the basics of death investigation. Cost for members is $20 ($30 for non-members); 1.0 CEUs will be awarded upon completion. Deputy Coroner Bobbie Jo O’Neal is be the featured presenter.

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Congratulations Felicia Infante! Do email me off the blog and let me know where to send your copy of the Scope & Standards (go to About for my email address).

Thanks to everyone who left comments…

Starting today, I am finally able to add a ratings feature to the site. From now on, you’ll see this at the bottom of each entry:

Although I get a sense of how much you’re interested in the various things I post based on the traffic, this will help me tailor the content even further. Please note that you have to actually click on the title of the entry and view it as a stand-alone page in order to see the ratings bar.

Thanks!

What an incredible week we’ve had at both sites. So much traffic, I am frankly a bit stunned. If you haven’t been over to the sustainability site, here’s what you’ll find this week

• Leadership and self-confidence, as discussed over at HarvardBusiness.org
• A pretty relevant article on nursing retention (and recruitment)
• Our semi-regular Friday Coordinator Q&A with Linda Rossman

And of course, don’t forget, we’re having our 1st giveaway on this site. Just leave me a comment here about why you do this work and Monday I’ll choose the winner of the Forensic Nursing Scope &  Standards, hot off the press. If you’re training forensic nurses as part of your job, this is a seriously invaluable tool, folks.

Well, now, lookie here. Courtesy of IAFN, I have in my sticky little hands one copy of the brand new Forensic Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice:

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If you weren’t one of almost 300 people who attended the HIV nPEP webinar described here, have no fear: the spectacular Kim Day has made sure you can still check it out at your leisure. You can access the archived offering over at the SAFE TA site. Thanks for making that happen, Kim!