Saturday, November 05, 2016 8:00 am to 9:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast Welcome and Keynote Address- Life is Good Playmakers (1 PDU) Presenter: Emily Saul, Life is Good Playmakers 9:00 am to 10:15 am We see it when we believe it. Each one of us has a choice: to focus our energy on obstacles or opportunities. To fixate on our problems, or focus on solutions. We can harp on what s wrong with the world, or we can cultivate what s right with the world. What we focus on grows. The Life is Good Kids Foundation will help us kick off the conference with a positive focus on using the power of optimism to create environments where kids can heal & grow. 10:30 am to 12:00 pm Lecture: ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Study (1.5 PDUS) Presenter: Marjorie Fujara MD, FAAP Acting Medical Director, Chicago Children s Advocacy Center An overview of Adverse Childhood Experience (ACEs) and how this impact child development will be provided. Dr. Marjorie Fujara will address common behaviors in children living with toxic stress and approaches to help them "selfregulate." Maggie Litgen, MSW will explain the ways that Child Life Specialists may experience secondary or vicarious trauma, and tactics to prevent, address, and transform vicarious trauma from an organizational and personal perspective. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm Lunch and Resource Fair 1:45 pm to 2:45 pm Workshops (1 PDU) Workshop A: Narrative Medicine: A Creative Outlet for Promoting Emotional Well-Being (66) Presenter: Linda Bensing BS, CCLS Advocate Children s Hospital The focus of this session will be to discover how writing about stressful events can increase emotional well-being for ourselves, patients and families. This session is designed to help attendees understand the science of Narrative Medicine and participate in creative writing experiences for benefits both professionally and personally. Workshop B: Permission to Play: Play as a Process for Essential Learning (66)
Presenter: Emily Mozena MA, CCLS, CTRA, Bri Swope MA, CCLS, CTRS University of Iowa As Child Life Specialists, we recognize that play is critical to child development. Based on current research and goal-oriented play, participants will leave this interactive workshop with essential tools to utilize play to facilitate development, as well as effectively communicate, demonstrate and describe the importance of play. Workshop C: Finding Your Comfort Position: Educating Beyond Front Line Staff to Expand Across a Hospital Enterprise(66) Presenters: Kristin Russo and Diana Swinehart MS, CCLS Cleveland Clinic Children s This presentation will provide attendees with an in-depth guide on how to develop and implement comfort positioning education throughout a variety of pediatric settings across a multisite hospital enterprise. Attendees will learn how the creators gained support from physicians and administration to make this education mandatory for all pediatric caregivers. Workshop D: Should Buzzy TM be used as a non-pharmacological standard of care? (66) Presenter: Erin Whipple MA,CCLS UH Rainbow Babies & Children s Hospital Research process and conclusion looking at the benefit of Buzzy TM in a Pediatric Ambulatory Clinic. The questionnaire development, IRB approval process and the results will be presented and discussed. Workshops (1 PDU) Workshop A: Supervision of Interns in the Pediatric Medical Setting: An Inquiry of Supervisors (66) Presenter: Elizabeth Klinger MA, MT-BC Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children s 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm The varied and dynamic roles in internship supervision can be confusing for interns and supervisors alike. The results of a study exploring the unique practical and supervisory challenges, such as maintaining consistency in training and support in the constantly evolving children s hospital environment, will be shared and discussed. Workshop B: Propofol Sting : Reducing Pain During IV Propofol Inductions (66) Presenter: Amy Wynia BA, CCLS University of Minnesota Masonic Children s Hospital Propofol is a safe and widely used anesthetic. However, pain experienced during injection of Propofol is very common with 85% of children reporting the association. This presentation will discuss research processes and results in a pediatric sedation unit as well as coping strategies used during Propofol inductions. Workshop C: EBP, You Don t Scare Me Integrating Evidence Based Practice into a Clinical Child Life Setting (66)
Presenter: Lori Esch MS, CCLS Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children s Hospital of Chicago Evidence based practice is the integration of the best scientific research, clinical experience and patient values in order to identify the best way to provide the most effective care to our patients and families This topic can be intimidating to many of us who prefer to focus on the clinical aspects of child life. This presentation will help guide you through the process of understanding the intricacies of EBP, the importance of its value in clinical care and how to create statements of your own to support daily practice. Workshop D: Exorcising Restraint: How CCLS-Clinician Partnerships can Eliminate Procedural Suffering and Change the Culture of Pediatric Emergency Medicine. (66) Presenter: Erin Dobie, DNP, APRN, CNP Krista Majerus CCLS and Michael Scribner-O Pray, BA, RN, CPEN Children s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota (66) In this multi-media, interactive session, explore how an interdisciplinary approach to reducing children s distress during common needle procedures has raised the bar for procedural coping and transformed the culture of a busy pediatric ER. 8:00 am to 8:30 am Continental Breakfast Sunday, November 6th 8:30 am to 10:00 am Workshops (1.5 PDU) Workshop A: Medical Art Making: Personal Exploration through the Use of Medical Materials (20) Presenter: Willow Messier ATR-BC, CCLS Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children s A Medical Art Therapist/Certified Child Life Specialist will offer a workshop utilizing medical materials as well as traditional art materials within the framework of medical play for an opportunity to explore one s role and personal processing of their child life practice and setting. A focus on self-care will be encouraged. Workshop B: Pediatric Conversion Disorder: A Consultation Service Perspective (66) Presenter: Dr. James Mackenzie, DO Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children s While pediatric conversion disorder is not an uncommon clinical scenario presenting to pediatric medical and neurologic floors, this particular disorder typically requires sophisticated, and at times, counter-intuitive treatment strategies. The most successful treatment approach requires interdisciplinary teamwork, psychoeducation to family and clinicians, and simply a great deal of patience. Workshop C: Leaving your Legacy: Step by Step Guide to Video Life Review (66)
Presenter: Jennifer Mangers MS, CCLS Journey Care Participants will be educated on the benefits of technology based life review with chronically ill or terminal patients and their families. In addition, they will learn how to initiate and facilitate the creation of a documentary through the use of the Apple imovie program. Workshop D: Adversity and Attachment- Loving a Challenging Child (66) Presenters: Amanda Anderson MS, CCLS, Ashley Bennett MSW, LCSW Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children s Due to mounting social stressors and safety concerns for a medically and behaviorally complex individual, a mother refuses to take a child home. An examination of the intersection between attachment, broken attachment, prolonged hospitalization, implications for caregivers in the hospital setting and attachment considerations when seeking long term placement.
10:15 am to 11:45 am Workshops (1.5 PDU) Workshop A: Using the Circle of Security Model to Better Understand, Explain and Empathically Respond to the Behavior of Hospitalized Children (66) Presenter: Jenny Kemp Berchtold MS, CCLS, DT, CPST Erikson Institute This presentation will untilize the Circle of Security model to depict how tenants of attachment theory apply to the hospital setting in support of patients and families. Attendees will create a personalized plan for how this information can be shared with interdisciplinary staff in order to better meet the needs of patients and families. Workshop B: Infants and Pain: Strategies for Supporting Infants through Painful Procedures (66) Presenters: Amanda Anderson MS, CCLS and Sara Stewart MS, CCLS Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children s Pain in infants is often unrecognized and untreated. Child Life Specialists have an opportunity to provide support and education to staff and caregivers surrounding infant pain management techniques. Toxic stress in infants can negatively affect the child s development. Individualized interventions will be discussed and video examples shared. Workshop C: Medical Art Making: Personal Exploration through the Use of Medical Materials (NOTE: This is a repeat workshop from the first session) (20) Presenter: Willow Messier ATR-BC, CCLS Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children s A Medical Art Therapist/Certified Child Life Specialist will offer a workshop utilizing medical materials as well as traditional art materials within the framework of medical play for an opportunity to explore one s role and personal processing of their child life practice and setting. A focus on self-care will be encouraged. Workshop D: Community Assistantships: Enhancing the Student Experience and Child Life Programming (66) Presenters: Katrina Hall MA, CCLS Comer Children s Hospital, Amanda Meade MA, LPC, CCLS Rainbow Babies and Children s Hospital, Shannon Sonnhalter BS, CCLS Cleveland Clinic Children s A hospital and university have developed an innovative approach to effectively utilize departmental funding to expand the clinical child life program s resources. This presentation will identify the development, implementation, and evaluation of community assistantships; successes and barriers; benefits to both child life programs and students; and cost-saving benefits. 11:45 pm to 12:45 pm Lunch 12:45 pm to 1:45 pm Closing Presentation: (1 PDU) Escaping Adulthood Presenter: Jason Kotecki, Artist
Join artist Jason Kotecki, author of Penguins Can t Fly +39 Other Rules That Don t Exist, as he equips us with practical and fun new ways to deal with stress and prevent burnout. A refreshing, engaging, and uplifting end to the day. 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Tour of Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children s