Also from the CDC website this morning:
It’s called the “choking game,” but it’s no game, and there are no winners. Some kids are choking themselves or each other, by hand or with some form of noose. The intent is to get a high, caused by a temporary lack of oxygen to the brain. Tragically, this so-called ‘game’ sometimes goes too far and results in death. In this broadcast, Dr. Robin Toblin discusses this latest activity and steps that can be taken to bring an end to this deadly game.
Today, for the 2nd installment of the Leadership Reader, I wanted to highlight a book about money. Many of you have talked with me about the challenges of funding your programs and the need to explore new ways to bring in operating dollars. Grants are always a good avenue to pursue, but they often come with serious restrictions on how the money can be used. Fundraising, on the otherhand, allows you much more freedom and flexibility in alotting those dollars to areas grants often don’t cover, like general operating funds or travel for education and conferences.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center has published a series of podcasts on HIV. This offering is a 2-part series on post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C. Each podcast is 58 minutes long and free to access. However, you will need iTunes to access them and the process is a bit clunky:
The US Department of Health and Human Services created the Campaign to Rescue and Restore Victims of Human Trafficking, and with it, an online toolkit for several different disciplines. The Toolkit for Healthcare Providers includes an annotated Powerpoint presentation that focuses on our role in identifying and assisting victims.
Wow–the traffic that the post on grantwriting received was enormous! Apparently this is an issue for many of you. Several people had questions about starting a nonprofit, so as nod to those of you who emailed me, here’s an hour-long podcast on the subject.
ANA is offering 1.52 CEUs for completion of Workplace Violence: The Nurse Victim. This is a standard article and posttest. Cost is $20 ($15 for members). Objectives include:
1. Describe secondary traumatization to care providers.
2. Describe the signs of stress and anxiety disorders associated with secondary traumatization.
3. Discuss interventions which assist the victim to deal with the sequelae of secondary traumatization.
4. Discuss prevention strategies.
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The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation is hosting a webinar January 28th at 12pm ET, entitled Treating the Addicted Survivor of Trauma. Cost of the webinar is $95 ($65 for ISSTD members); it’s scheduled to last 90 minutes.
Many of you are looking to grants to help support and grow your programs. For my money, the Foundation Center is one of the best resources out there for grant seekers, with an online library, information about a large number of funders, and brick and mortar locations in 5 cities around the US. And now, they are offering webinars on key topics like basic proposal writing, which used to only be available in the form of live classes.
Nurses can earn 5 CEs for completing Western Schools’ Bioterrorism and the Nurse’s Response to Weapons of Mass Destruction. This is in a text-posttest format; however it is much longer than your typical article-based CE offering, running 65 pages (so pace yourself). It’s currently available at the sale price of $19.95 (you save $5).
The Headington Institute (“psychological and spiritual support for humanitarian relief and development workers“) has a self-study module available on their website, Understanding and Addressing Vicarious Trauma. The module is text-based and requires registration to access–it’s free of charge once you are registered.
ReachMD did a segment in their series on Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness entitled, Finding Your Niche in Disaster Planning and Response. Because so may of my forensic colleagues are either currently working on disaster response teams or have expressed an interest in doing so, this is a great, brief overview of how each of us can play a role in disaster planning and response.
The issue of mandatory reporting for nurses is an interesting one and parameters for reporting are dependent upon the state in which you practice. Medscape is offering 1 CEU for completing this online offering, Dilemmas in Mandatory Reporting for Nurses. The article examines crime reporting (such as child abuse and domestic violence), as well as reporting of colleagues for misconduct or lapses in professionalism.
The National Association of County and City Health Officials has amassed a large archive of previously offered webinars. These are available for free and require only a minimal amount of registration information. It’s Tough Being a Teen: Prevention Strategies Addressing Leading Causes of Injury and Death is a 90 minute webcast featuring presentations from national, state and local public health professionals.
PESI Healthcare is offering a 1 hour webinar, Thursday, February 12th from 4:30-5:30 ET on Workplace Violence: Recognition and Response to Violence in Healthcare. Cost is $129 for unlimited participants at a single site plus $15/person to receive 1 nursing CE for the course (after completion of the post-test/evaluation).
ReachMD is an XM Satelite Radio channel geared toward medical professionals. They discuss a wide variety of topics on their show and have a website where much of the radio content is archived. This podcast is an interview by a primary care physician with Dr. Robert Hatcher (of Contraceptive Technology fame) about emergency contraception.
If you are providing emergency contraception to sexual assault patients, this is a great overview. It includes an interesting discusion about the controversy surrounding how emergency contraceptives work. The podcast also touches some on abortion and safety issues (at ~11 minute mark).
Access to the podcast is free, but does require registration with the website. Total run time: 13 minutes.
Physicians can receive 2.5 ACEP Category 1 credits for completing Blunt Trauma and Evaluation Management. Cost of the course is $25, and is structured as an online article and corresponding post-test. Content is advertised as being appropriate for nurses, as well, but at this time CEUs are not available.
The American Nurses Association is offering 1.67 CEUs for its offering, The Impact of Disasters on Nurse Responders. Members can purchase the credits for $15 (nonmembers pay $20). “This module is designed to discuss the impact of natural disasters on nurse responders/providers and to identify interventions to help them overcome any stress/anxiety symptoms they may experience.”
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Wild Iris Medical Education is offering 3 Nursing CEUs for Psychiatric Emergencies: Caring for People in Crisis. “This course discusses psychiatric emergencies from the perspective of crisis intervention. It describes the assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation by clinicians of people in crisis with mood, anxiety, anger, substance use, and mental disorders.”
The format for this CE offering is article and post-test. Cost is $24.