Emotional Safety: The Other Side of the Patient Safety Coin

Includes a Live Event on 03/15/2021 at 1:00 PM (EDT)

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This webinar will examine the importance of keeping pediatric patients not just physically safe during medical care, but emotionally safe as well. Clinical components of patient emotional safety will be explored as will the pillars for creating systemic change. This will be the introduction webinar to the emotional safety pillars that will be offered throughout 2021.

Suggested domain: Ethics

Objectives:

Understand the ethical responsibility of providing emotionally safe medical care

Examine the 3 clinical components of patient emotional safety

Discuss the ethical responsibility of leading the emotional safety movement

Explore how the 4 pillars of patient emotional safety will be used to create systemic change

Jenaya Gordon

Manager, Child Life Department

Jenaya Gordon is the Manager of the Child Life Department at Children's Hospital Colorado. Prior to becoming manager, she worked clinically on the inpatient trauma unit, in the emergency department, and in the pediatric intensive care unit. Jenaya uses her expertise to train child life specialists in providing trauma support to patients and families and on educating medical caregivers on trauma-informed care and emotional safety. She is a contributing author in the Handbook of Medical Play Therapy and Child Life, focusing her chapter on trauma-focused medical play. Jenaya currently serves as secretary for the ACLP Board of Directors.