This webinar will discuss tactics and virtual programming ideas created by the entire team at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital – Mission Bay. We will share our ideas, what worked and didn’t work in regards to virtual programming and socialization opportunities for patients and families during COVID 19. Suggested Domain: Intervention

​This presentation will outline research conducted from analyzing 3.8 million online interactions about illness from pediatric patients. SUGGESTED DOMAIN: Intervention

Certified Child Life Specialists, Occupational Therapists, and Registered Nurses, each possess expertise and individual scopes of practice in the education and encouragement of bowel and bladder self-management. Using a collaborative approach, this webinar will outline specific practice guidelines, demonstrate the importance, and explore the challenges of bowel and bladder self-management. Additionally, it will utilize case studies referencing inpatient admissions in an urban pediatric rehabilitation hospital to illustrate these objectives. Suggested Domain: Intervention 1.0 PDU

This webinar will provide education related to recognizing varied traumatic stress responses and providing prompt and appropriate interventions in child life practice. Suggested Domain: Professional Responsibility, Assessment, Intervention 1.5 PDU

This presentation describes a hospital program that creates an opportunity for pediatric patients and their families to receive consistent emotional support during extended or recurring hospitalization. The program introduces a qualified, trained, and committed college student volunteer base to provide fun, friendship, and support to children and their families.

The Child Life and Anesthesia departments at this hospital collaborated to develop and evaluate a new mobile application, that offers preoperative psychological preparation through virtual reality (VR). The authors demonstrated that VR is a valid and acceptable form of preparing children for the operating room experience. Participants are invited to download the app for use in their clinical tool kit.

This webinar presentation will explore the unique parent-child relationship developed throughout the hospitalization and life of extremely premature infants and the impact of that relationship on child development and future hospitalizations. Suggested Domain: Assessment, Intervention 1.5 PDU

Learn about this hospital’s program that utilizes smoothies as a therapeutic intervention for patients admitted to a hematology/oncology floor. Suggested Domain: Intervention; DEI 1.0 PDU

When a child is hospitalized due to illness or injury the entire family is affected including the patient’s siblings. This hospital implemented a sibling program for siblings of chronically ill patients to promote increased sibling engagement, parent education, and sibling presence to optimize sibling coping from afar. Suggested Domain: Intervention 1.5 PDUs

This webinar addresses the child welfare sector's limited knowledge base, its chronic inconsistencies in practice, and research gaps to advocate for integrating and implementing evidence-based solutions into child welfare while enhancing existing social resources. Suggested Domain: Intervention Credits: 1.0 PDU