Know as You Grow: Cultivating an Atmosphere of Relationship Building, Advocacy, and Expansion of Child Life Services in Outpatient Settings - (2024)
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This webinar aims to educate participants about the increasing demand for child life specialists in outpatient settings. This session will focus on building rapport with clinic staff and patients, prioritizing patient needs, and addressing the challenges of managing various clinic requirements. Attendees will also receive valuable resources and information that they can apply to their outpatient programs.
Suggested Domain: Professional Responsibility, Intervention
1.0 PDU
Learning Objective(s):
- By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to understand the rapid growth of medically complex patients in the outpatient setting.
- By the end of this presentation, participants will be well-versed in building quick and sustainable rapport with patients and their families.
- By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to extend their child's life reach through facilitating support groups for chronic patients in clinics.
- By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to add outpatient-specific tangible resources and items to their programs.
- By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to understand how to navigate concerns with expansion related to outpatient growth.
Please note: All webinar contents and its certificate will expire on 6/5/2027 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 certificate for their records prior to 6/5/2027.
Elysa Mendoza, CCLS
Certified Child Life Specialist
Children's Health Dallas
Cecilia Mendiola, CCLS
Certified Child Life Specialist
Children's Health Dallas
Cecilia has been a certified child life specialist since 2009. She is currently a senior child life specialist in the Specialty Care Center at Children’s Health Dallas where she has been part of a growing child life team who supports clinics such as Orthopedics, radiology, urology, pulmonology, special procedures clinic and other various clinics. She has been in the outpatient setting for over 14 years and has developed and facilitated several support groups.