Poster Presentation: Legacy Building: Cut It Out!

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As technology continues to change the world around us, child life specialists must utilize these advancements to provide relevant and unique legacy building opportunities for families. This child life department utilizes a standard craft store computer controlled cutting machine to provide unique legacy building opportunities, create priceless keepsakes for families. These include but are not limited to art from combining video along with sound and heartbeat waves, handwriting, drawings, etc.

Learning Objectives:

Identify 3 benefits to legacy building interventions.

Identify 2 options for standard craft store computer-controlled cutting machines and initial startup cost of purchasing.

Name 3 legacy items that can be created with a standard craft store computer controlled cutting machines.

Identify materials needed to begin utilizing this technology at their hospital.

1 PDU
Suggested Domain: Professional Responsibility

Rebecca Gordon

MA, CCLS

Norton Children's Hospital

Rebecca serves in a clinical role as a certified child life specialist at Norton Children's Hospital in the surgical services department. In her 3 years as a CCLS, she has found a passion in creating innovative and cost-effective clinical interventions tools for patients and families. Currently, Rebecca is involved at a national level within the ACLP as the chair-elect on the Education and Training Committee. Rebecca's past publication and presentation experience has included topics emphasizing perspectives on student education, virtual reality as a preparation tool, and currently regarding legacy building interventions utilizing cost-effective computer-cutting technology.

Taryn Johnson

Certified Child Life Specialist

Norton Children's Hospital

Taryn currently serves as the Child Life Coordinator for Norton Children's Hospital. In addition to Coordinator responsibilities, she provides patient care for the inpatient hematology, oncology and renal populations through the Norton Children's Cancer Institute. She also coordinates the internship program. She has an interest in providing support to siblings and helped develop the hospital's sibling support program in 2012. She currently serves as a co-facilitator of the SibStars sibling support program.