Trials and Tribulations of Transplant: Creating Emotional Safety for a Medically Complex Chronic Population
Pediatric solid organ transplant patients are a medically and psychosocially vulnerable populations. The goal for this presentation is not only to provide information about the innovative ways in which child life can promote emotional safety for these patients and families, but to share how some of the interventions and tools developed could be beneficial for other chronic populations.
Objectives:
Explain the transplant process and identify associated risk factors for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).
Apply innovative interventions and approaches in order to create emotional safety for chronic populations.
Justify and utilize the allocation of child life resources to cover chronic outpatients.
2.0 PDUs, Assessment/Intervention Domain
Jessica Tyndall
Certified Child Life Specialist
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Jessica has been a CCLS for 11 years, the last 7 of which have been at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital where she works with the pediatric transplant population. Prior to that she worked at the HSC Pediatric Center in Washington, DC and completed her internship at the UMass Memorial Children's Medical Center in Worcester, MA. Her special areas of interests include: chronic populations, medical trauma, children with special needs, palliative care, and medication adherence.
Kathleen Wallace
Certified Child Life Specialist
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
Kathleen has worked at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital since 2009. She primarily worked with the pediatric small bowel and liver transplant population from 2011 until 2014. Today, Kathleen works primarily with the hematology/oncology, general pediatric and procedural sedation team, in addition to coordinating the child life program at Medstar Georgetown. Her interests include chronic populations, adolescents and young adult patients, and pediatric transplant.
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