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Perspectives in Care: Medical Trauma in Childhood

Friday, April 20, 2012 from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM (CT)

Tinley Park, IL

Perspectives in Care: Medical Trauma in Childhood

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Medical Trauma Registration Ended $160.00 $0.00
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Event Details

 

 

 

Perspectives in Care:  Medical Trauma in Childhood

 

The La Rabida Symposium and Nursing Recharge Event

Tinley Park Convention Center

Keynote: Judith Simon Prager, PhD

 

Friday, April 20, 2012

 

$140 Early Bird Registration

discount code: earlybird

$160 Registration on/after March 15, 2012

 

Conference Overview

Medical trauma is defined as the child's and family's experience of scary, painful, and/or highly distressing medical events and their responses to them. The goal of this conference is to highlight the consequences of medical trauma and improve the quality of care for children who have experienced medical trauma. 

 

Schedule

7:30 – 8:10

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:10 – 8:15

Welcome and Opening remarks

8:15 – 9:15

Keynote address: Judith Simon Prager, “Verbal First Aid”

 

Nursing RECHARGE

Medical Issues

Psychosocial Issues

9:30 – 10:30

Update in Pediatric DKA and the impact of new onset diabetes

Rose Briars

The Psychology of Medical Trauma in Children

Margret Nickels

Addressing Medical Trauma in the Young, Nonverbal Child

Anne Isaac

10:45-11:45

Assessing Psychosocial Risk and Resilience

Melissa Alderfer

So what is Trauma-Informed Care anyway and how do I know if I’m providing it?

Bradley Stolbach

Supporting the Family for Best Outcomes

Judith Prager

Noon – 1:00

L U N C H

1:00 – 2:00

Pediatric Medical Traumatic Stress: A Toolkit for Professionals

Melissa Alderfer

2:15 – 3:15

Yippee! Another day in paradise…driving negativity out of the workplace

Liz Jazwiec

How Children and Families Cope with Pediatric Medical Trauma and Stress

Lindsey Amper

Medical Narrative for Health Professionals

Ruby Roy

 

This activity has been submitted to Illinois Nurses Association Approver Unit for approval to award contact hours. Illinois Nurses Association is accredited as an approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

 

Verbal First Aid the protocol Prager has introduced in the United States and abroad.  The goals include providing a method for using words to help people’s minds and bodies heal from minor tragedies or overwhelming emergencies as they’re happening, and keeping crises from becoming remembered as traumas in the future.

 

CMEs and CEUs offered

 

 

When & Where


Convention Center Dr
Tinley Park, IL 60477

Friday, April 20, 2012 from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM (CT)


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La Rabida Children's Hospital



La Rabida Children’s Hospital, established in 1896, is a pediatric acute care hospital, specializing in the treatment of chronic illnesses and developmental disabilities.  In addition, it operates nationally recognized programs for children who have experienced trauma and abuse.  La Rabida provides family-centered, interdisciplinary care to 9,000 children with special healthcare needs each year at its lakeside location in Chicago. www.larabida.org.