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Evaluation Of A Pilot Multidisciplinary Debriefing Program: Promoting Pediatric Provider Emotional, Social, And Spiritual Wellbeing, Allison E. Reynolds
Evaluation Of A Pilot Multidisciplinary Debriefing Program: Promoting Pediatric Provider Emotional, Social, And Spiritual Wellbeing, Allison E. Reynolds
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Regular exposure to trauma, such as the act of bearing witness to intense suffering and pain of pediatric patients and families, has a significant effect on healthcare professionals. Despite the fact that traumatic situations in pediatrics are a reality, there is little education and few interventions focused on how to prepare and support healthcare providers to care for dying children and families or for other clinically challenging situations. Pediatric residency program directors within a large, freestanding children’s hospital identified a subjective need for support for their pediatric residents in dealing with clinically challenging situations faced during residency, motivating residency program …
A Clinical Practice Change Initiative To Incorporate Animal Assisted Therapy In Advanced Practice Registered Nurses' Clinical Practice For Children And Adolescents, Donna Rae Cowell
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Background: Children and adolescents mental healthcare needs is vital for the future of our nation’s welfare (American Psychology Association, 2014). Research has indicated AAT may be a considerable choice to help with pediatrics mental healthcare and may be utilized as an adjunct to enhance the care within the psychiatric healthcare field (Chandler, 2012). AAT has become popular within the healthcare realm (Friesen, 2009; Uyemura, 2016) and is a unique method for providing “patients” health care, which may improve patient outcomes (Chandler, 2012; Cowell, 2013; McCullough, 2016; McQuarrie & Urichuk, 2008). Research supports that “providers” in the health care field may …