Improving the Emotional Safety of Pediatric Burn Patients Through Psychosocial Risk Assessment - (2024)

This webinar covers psychosocial stressors in pediatric burn patients and the use of the PRAP assessment tool to improve emotional safety during follow-up outpatient burn clinic appointments. It also includes process improvement initiatives and the application of child life theory to practice.

Suggested Domain: Assessment, Intervention
1.0 PDU

Learning Objective(s):

- By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to identify potential barriers to care when promoting emotional safety with the pediatric burn population and learn case studies where barriers to care were overcome.

- By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to identify 8 evidence-based risk factors that may increase pediatric psychosocial distress as identified by the Psychosocial Risk Assessment in Pediatrics (PRAP) tool and how these risk factors relate to the pediatric burn population.

- By the end of this presentation participants will be able to identify strategies for working with the interdisciplinary team to promote emotional safety in the inpatient and outpatient burn unit

- By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to identify theoretical frameworks that contribute to assessment and individualized interventions of the pediatric burn patient."

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Amber Hill, MS, CCLS

Lead Child Life Specialist

JMS Burn Center at Doctors Hospital of Augusta

Amber has been a Certified Child Life Specialist since 2007.  She received her bachelor’s degree with honors in Psychology from the University of Kansas, and her master's degree in Human Development and Family Studies with emphasis in Child Life from the University of Alabama.  Amber began her child life career working internationally for over 8 years at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.  She has been privileged to work at multiple healthcare systems throughout her career.  She currently works with the inpatient pediatric burn population at Doctor’s Hospital – JMS Burn Center where she has found a passion for supporting pediatric burn survivors and their families.    Amber has been an active volunteer with the ACLP and CLCC for many years, most recently as the outgoing commissioner of the Item Review Committee.    Amber currently lives in Georgia with her husband and three children. 

Amanda Moore, CCLS

Certified Child Life Specialist

JMS Burn Center at Doctors Hospital of Augusta

Amanda has worked as a Certified Child Life Specialist (CCLS) for the past 3 years in the Advanced Wound and Burn Clinic at the JMS Burn Center at Doctors Hospital of Augusta, the nation's largest burn center. Amanda earned a Bachelor's Degree in Human Development and Family Science with a concentration in Child Life and a minor in Spanish from Auburn University in 2021. Amanda completed her clinical internship at Children's of Alabama. Since working at the JMS Burn Center, Amanda has found her passion in serving kids and families affected by burn injuries. Amanda enjoys working with the reconstructive surgery population as an integral interdisciplinary team member.  She is actively involved with Camp Oo-Uu-La, a summer camp for pediatric burn survivors and their siblings.  Amanda lives in Augusta, GA with her husband. 

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Select the "View On-Demand Recording" button to begin.  |  60 minutes This webinar covers psychosocial stressors in pediatric burn patients and the use of the PRAP assessment tool to improve emotional safety during follow-up outpatient burn clinic appointments. It also includes process improvement initiatives and the application of child life theory to practice.
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