A Cohort Model Used Across Intensive Care Units
This session explains how a multidisciplinary cohort model is utilized across the ICUs to promote creativity, continuity of care, and collaboration. The session depicts how this innovative model addresses the current staffing challenges in the field and prevents burnout among clinicians.
Suggested Domain: Intervention
Credits: 1.0 PDU
Learning Objective(s):
By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to share about the flow and referral process of including creative arts therapies within the PICU, NICU, and PCICU.
By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to detail the impact of collaborating as an ICU team to reduce burn out support referrals for other modalities and students and contribute to equitable care.
By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to describe creative opportunities and programming for patients and families across multiple ICU settings.
Please note: All series content and its related certificates will expire on 8/1/2028 regardless of when it is purchased, accessed, or completed. At that point, contents will no longer be available in any form, including as an archive or as a PDU certificate. It is the responsibility of the learner to complete the contents and download and save the certificates for their records before 8/1/2028.
Abby Patch (Moderator)
MS, CCLS
Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital
Abby Patch has been a Certified Child Life Specialist since November 2014 graduating from Bank Street College of Education with her Masters Degree in Child Life in May 2014. Abby completed two internships during her time at Bank Street College of Education at Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center and NYU Langone Medical Center. Abby joined the Child Life and Creative Arts Department at Mount Sinai in November 2014 and has primarily worked in the pediatric ICU, cardiac ICU, and neonatal ICU. Her focuses have included caregiver support, end of life work, sibling support, and creating therapeutic relationships with patients through play. She has presented at Marymount Manhattan College, CLGNY, and grand rounds. She has also been published through a collaboration with social work and music therapy in the publication Case Studies for Music Therapy Clinicians: Portraits of Daily Practice. Abby continues to find value in collaborating with team members to support patients and caregivers in the ICU environment.
Katie Messina (Moderator)
MA, CCLS
Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital
Catherine Messina, a graduate of Emory University and Columbia University, has been a certified Child Life Specialist since 2024. As a student, she completed rotations at Nemours Children’s Health, New York Presbyterian, and Mount Sinai’s Kravis Children’s Hospital. As a CCLS she has worked at Bellevue Hospital and the Kravis Children’s Hospital, where she is currently the primary specialist in the NICU. Katie’s focuses include Caregiver Groups, milestone celebrations, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Recent work includes presenting for the Health Equity Journal Club, a sibling’s night, a developmental seminar for parents, new nurse education, and planning the first NICU reunion for the unit.
