Navigating Challenging Conversations - 4/2022

Workplace Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Action - 9/2022

LEAN Foundations - 10/2022

Coaching Foundations for Leaders: Building Skills for Success - 5/2024

Problem Solving: Defining and Stating the Problem - 5/2024

Annual Child Life Conference ​​

• National Harbor, MD - 5/2023​

BASE Camp Trauma Conference Participant 

• New York, NY - 11/2023​

Annual Child Life Conference

• San Antonio, TX - 5/2024​​

BASE Camp Trauma Conference - Staff 

• New York, NY (future) 11/2024​

Pediatric Emergency Department and Urgent Care 

• Unit Based Council Member

 Supported the Child Life Manager in making and presenting Child Life Gemba Walk Bulletin Board.

Peer Supervision Leader over two peers to provide support regarding:

• Clinical Interventions ​

• Case Review

• Ethical Issues

• Boundaries

• Diagnostic Skills

• Current Events & Policies Related to Child Life & The Association of Child Life Professionals 

• Relationships with Colleagues and Management 

• Work Related Stressors 

Denver Health Mass Casualty Family Reunification Committee Member 

• Participated in reunification simulation as a staff member of Denver Health alongside other Denver Health Staff and actors. 

Training & onboarding new Child Life staff members.

Child Life Department Annual Goals: 

• Single Point of Accountability (SPA) and lead child life specialist assigned with streamlining 33% of daily EPIC charting by evaluating the highest utilized child life interventions to eliminate waste and enhance operational excellence and productivity.

  • The Child Life Team identified EPIC charting as an area of improvement in productivity to continue to deliver timely access to care for patients and staff. The overall goal was to increase child life productivity and promote multidisciplinary collaboration. After a week of measuring time spent writing chart notes, child life specialists recorded spending an average of 60+ minutes a day. We identified the top three most utilized interventions from 2022 as our target:

    • Preparation and Procedure Support

    • Pediatric Developmental Intervention

    • Family-Centered Care​​​​

• Collaborated with SPA and created resource pages on "What is Grief?"

  • To be accessed online through Denver Health Child Life webpage as well as printed handouts. ​

• Co-Led iPad preparation books and contributed to Child Life annual goal by assessing the current state and creating online preparation book for child life staff to utilize on iPads: ​

  • Laceration/Stiches ​

  • Pav M Adolescent Psych Unit/PES

  • Digit Amputation 

  • Ultrasound 

  • Lumbar Puncture 

  • ED SANE Suite

  • AUTE Eating Disorder Unit​​

​Grand Rounds Lecturer - 6/2024

• "​Working with Children of Abuse: A developmental perspective on understanding and supporting their need to feel safe." 

Schwartz Rounds Speaker - 5/2023

Grand Rounds Lecturer - 11/2021

• "Practice with a Pediatric Purpose"​

Presented a literature review for child life staff to receive continuing education units:

• Perceived Screen Use in Hospitalized Children: Child Life Experts’ Perspectives on More Meaningful Engagement

• Reconstructing the Play Lady: Child life and the Female Human Identity

Created & implemented "Child Life Prioritization Game" while at Child Life Staff Retreat. 

• A game designed to utilize prioritization skills with limited resources, creating an atmosphere of verbal and internal processing alongside peers to "make it through the day" and complete all scenarios. 

"What is Child Life?" educational presentation for nursing students working on the pediatric floor. ​

​Pediatric Emergency Department and Urgent Care staff education: 

• Presented to the pediatric and adult nurses on "Child Life in the Emergency Department."​

• "It's NOT okay to say 'it's okay'" bulletin board. 

• "iSpy: when to call child life" bulletin board.