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From time to time I will feature a book aimed at developing the leadership of forensic healthcare professionals. For those of you who are trying to run programs but struggling to have your voices heard by senior hospital management, community leaders, policy makers or other disciplines– I have a book for you.

Negotiating at an Uneven Table: Developing Moral Courage in Resolving our Conflicts, by Phyllis Beck Kriteck (Jossey-Bass), “explores the process of resolving conflicts in situations where unacknowledged inequity influences disputes and their outcomes. Substantially revised and expanded, this new edition will help open minds and balance the negotiation process. Throughout the book, Kritek challenges traditional approaches to dealing with inequities at the negotiation table and offers alternatives for reframing the process.” This book was named Conflict Resolution Book of the Year by the Association of American Law Schools.

The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) offers its members one category 1 ACEP CME for completing a quiz after reading the online article, Management of Taser Injuries. Upon completion of the article, the reader will be able to:

• Explain how the TASER works.
• Discuss the evaluation of patients who have been subjected to a TASER discharge.
• Describe the technique for TASER barb removal.

The CME offer appears to be limited to ACEP members, although the content itself is accessible to anyone who visits the site and is available in a printer-friendly format.

Explosions and Blast Injuries: A Primer for Clinicians is a 1 credit on-line CE offering for nurses. This is as close to a paper-and-pen type offering as you will find online. Simply read the content and take the quiz (the materials are also printable for those of you who struggle with reading large amounts of content online).  Fee is $10.

The International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) is “an international membership organization comprised of forensic nurses working around the world and other professionals who support and compliment the work of forensic nursing.” This week, IAFN unveiled their new online CE site, which will allow members to purchase continuing education units and track their earned CEUs through the site. Non-members can also access content, although in a more limited manner.

While there is a fee for the majority of content (you actually earn continuing education units, so it’s a good use of your $$$), you can currently access the keynote speech from the 2008 Annual Scientific Assembly, “The Unconscionable Weapons of War” by Stephen Lewis, at no cost.

To join IAFN, visit their site for information, cost and member benefits.

The New York State Psychological Association publishes monthly podcasts, which are available on their blog. This offering has a decidedly forensic focus: Trauma in Children: How It Starts, How It Progresses, and How to Get It to Stop.

Listen on-line or download to your ipod or MP3 player (length=30 min.): http://www.nyspa.org/podcasts/06Pivnick.mp3

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Welcome to Forensic Healthcare Online, a site focused on web-based education in all areas of forensic healthcare. Here you’ll find current links to clinical education ranging from violence prevention to medical-forensic examinations to death investigation. The purpose of this site is to help clinicians identify affordable and accessible continuing education in the form of podcasts, webinars, webcasts, etc. If you would like to submit an educational offering, please contact me at jenifer.markowitz@gmail.com. Please note that inclusion in this blog is not an endorsement. There is simply no way I can review every offering I post. However, if you have reviewed it and would like to provide a critique, positive or negative, please include your evaluation in the comments section.