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Healthy People 2020 Update: Violence Across the Lifespan

The US Department of Health and Human Services is hosting a webinar update on the Healthy People 2020 Violence Across the Lifespan section. The session will be April 18th from 12:30-2pm ET. From the announcement:

In the first half of life, more Americans die from violence and injuries—such as motor vehicle crashes, falls, or homicides—than from any other cause including cancer, HIV, or diabetes. Violence and injuries occur at work as well as other settings, and exert a tremendous public health burden across the lifespan.

Please join us on April 18, 2013 at 12:30 p.m. EDT for a Healthy People 2020 Progress Review Webinar featuring the Injury and Violence Prevention and Occupational Safety and Health Topic Areas. This Webinar series focuses on tracking and measuring the progress of Healthy People 2020 objectives.

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VAWA 2013 Information

There have been several published summaries and overviews of the specifics in the recent VAWA reauthorization (PDF). For those of you with questions, here are a few resources to check out:

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Articles of Note: March 2013 Edition

Time once again for Articles of Note, some of the research that has caught my eye from peer-reviewed journals in the field. As always, this is not a comprehensive outline of every relevant study, just the stuff that looks interesting to me. Scribd is giving me fits, so I have bagged using it this month; the complete list of articles with active links to PubMed is after the jump. Let me know if you want a printable word doc. Sorry–no free full-text this month. Sadness.

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Articles of Note: January 2013 Edition

I am a bit late on getting an Articles of Note post up, but hopefully what I lack in timeliness I make up for in volume. There’s some really interesting research to be found in the current journals, so I encourage you to peruse the list and see what looks relevant to your practice. Not too many free full-text articles, sadly, so hopefully you can access the articles via your local medical library or hospital. What follows after the jump is the embedded Scribd doc for printing; the list with live links is after that. As always, contact me if you want all of this in a word doc.

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Creating a State Elderly Fatality Review Team

IAFN is hosting its 1st webinar of 2013: Creating a State Elderly Fatality Review Team. The session will be held January 30th from 1-2pm Eastern. CEUs are available for this one, and cost to attend is $15 ($30 for non-members). From the site:

Has your state or community thought about creating an Elder Fatality Review Team? Do you wonder what steps are involved, who the key players should be, and what exactly the role of the forensic nurse is on the team? Join us to learn all this and more! In 2001 Maine was selected as one of four states in a pilot program for a Department of Justice funded initiative to create and expand the fatality review team concept, and to develop and disseminate a replication and best practices guide. Following years of case reviews, the presenters will share their experience developing and implementing a nationally-recognized Elder Fatality Review Team in Maine, and what the forensic nurse brings to the team.

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Death Investigation in the Elderly

For those of you working the death investigation field, RTI has several online courses available, including Death Investigation in the Elderly (PDF). I am particularly interested in this one because it includes a section on the physiology of aging, which I think is useful for those outside the death investigation field, as well.

The course is free and provides CMEs (sorry, no nursing CEs). Registration is required.

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End of Year Continuing Education Credits, Part II

I hope everyone had a peaceful holiday (or at least enjoyed a few days off if you don’t celebrate). Today I want to round out some continuing education sources for those of you in need of finishing the year with a few extra in hand (see here for Part I). All are available for nursing CEs; CME credits are available as indicated.

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Articles of Note, November 2012

Time once again for this month’s Articles of Note, a review of some of what has caught my eye from the recently published peer-reviewed literature. Please keep in mind this is not exhaustive, just some of what I am currently reading this month. You’ll note that there are several free full-text articles in this month’s review. For those of you who want a word doc, feel free to contact me. Otherwise the Scribd doc is embedded, followed by the list of articles with links.

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Beyond SANE: Expanding your Practice

If you were in Puerto Rico last month, you may have heard Jennifer Pierce-Weeks’ excellent session on expanding SANE practice. If not, you’re in luck–she’s repeating it via webinar for IAFN’s next online offering. The session will be November 29th at noon, ET. The cost is $15 ($30 for non-members) and will net you 1 CEU. Trust me–it’s worth it.

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Articles of Note: October Edition

Happily, my trip to Japan has been cancelled (I remember a time that would be devastating news–now it is an absolute gift); this means I can catch up on a few things, like an Articles of Note post for instance. What follows are articles that have caught my eye from the late September/ October/ November new publications. All links lead to PubMed abstracts unless otherwise indicated. As always, contact me if you want the full list in a word doc with hyperlinks.

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Articles of Note: August/September Edition

How is it possible I went most of the summer without posting one of these? Embarrassing. What follows is what’s caught my eye from the August/September/October journals (with a couple of late July articles tossed in for good measure). As always, this is not an exhaustive list, but I do have to say, it’s a pretty good one. There’s a lot of great looking research among this group of pubs.

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Medical Aspects of Elder Abuse

I’m such a big fan of science–but of course, you know this. I will always post resources and tools that are grounded in solid science. That is, science that’s been shown to be valid and reliable. Science I cite when I teach and when I testify.

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Articles of Note: June Edition

Here’s what I love–1.) this month’s Articles of Note is full of amazing stuff to choose from; and 2.) there are many forensic nurses (and subscribers to this site from both the US and Canada) among the authors of the articles listed this month. And one more thing about point #2: not all of those forensic nurses have PhDs. So for those of you who feel like you can’t write because you didn’t go to graduate school, I would like to point out that this isn’t true–the literature needs our PhD’d research colleagues, and *also* the expert clinicians, whatever their educational credentials, contributing to the science (see this editorial for a good example of what you might consider writing). So once again, it’s time for our monthly roundup of articles that have caught my attention. Remember, this is not an exhaustive list of what’s new in the literature, but it should give you a good place to start. Links lead to abstracts unless full-text is noted.

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World Elder Abuse Awareness Day

June 15th is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD). Several activities (of which I am aware) are going on to commemorate the day. Click through for more information.

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Articles of Note: May Edition

Time once again for Articles of Note, a tad late this month I realize. These are a selection from the late April/May/June new releases, and it’s a pretty varied bunch. As usual, this is not meant to be an exhaustive list, just the grouping that have caught my eye. All but one link lead to abstracts (the full-text article is marked), and from there you can decide what seems relevant and worth it to you.

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Survey on Abuse of People With Disabilities

The Disability and Abuse Project is asking people to complete their survey. From their call for participants:

This is the first national survey of its kind — one that focuses on incidents of, response to, and attitudes about, abuse or crime victimization of children and adults with disabilities.

(Click through to read more about the survey)

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Clinical Guide: Determining the Age of Bruises

I receive a lot of questions about determining the age of bruises. Although the research has shown that determining the age of bruising by clinicians based on color provides consistently inaccurate results, with poor interrater reliability, I still find that some are loathe to turn their backs on this highly unreliable assessment technique. So I have provided an overview of the literature below, with articles split into 2 categories: those that address the attempt to age bruises based on color in a routine clinical environment (Clinical Assessment of Bruises) and those that have a much more high-tech approach (Laboratory Assessment of Bruises). These articles address aging bruises using equipment and mathematical models not typically seen in our routine clinical practices. It’s important to note that studies in the latter category found greater success at determining the age of bruises, which further emphasizes the unreliability of visual assessment alone.

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Older Adults and #Healthy Sexuality

So yesterday I participated in NSVRC’s #TweetAboutIt Tuesday. The topic was older adults and healthy sexuality. And here’s what I love about participating in something like this. Within a minute (literally) of posting a question, I had in my (virtual) hands this fabulous document– Exploring the Sexual Rights of Older Adults: Toward Healthy Sexuality and Freedom From Victimization in Later Life (PDF). Hat tip to Benje Douglas at NSVRC who sent it my way.

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Articles of Note: March Edition

Time once again for Articles of Note. This month’s is basically stuff from the 1st quarter. I included a couple of January articles I missed in earlier editions, so you’ll see articles as far back as the beginning of the year. There is so much good stuff on this list. I know I say that a lot, but this month I feel like people took a look at the “I wish people would research ___” section of my Moleskine (and yes, that really is one of the sections because as I’ve mentioned before, I’m a HUGE NERD), and said, “meh, why not?”.

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Articles of Note: February Edition

This month’s edition has my inner nerd all aquiver–so much good stuff in the research (particularly if you take care of sexual assault patients). What can I tell you–get on over to your medical library, or fire up your online access and start reading. It’s *that* good this month (and also, I like seeing my friends’ names in print, and there’s some of that, too). As always, this isn’t meant to be a comprehensive overview of what’s out there; just the stuff that caught my eye from the late January, February and early March journals and previews.