Expanding the Culture of Safety: Preventing Emotional Harm in Pediatrics
Join us for a live webinar event, "Expanding the Culture of Safety: Preventing Emotional Harm in Pediatrics," Tuesday, January 7, 2025 at 2:00 pm ET, with expert speaker Barbara Romito, Certified Child Life Specialist.
In today's fast-paced healthcare environment, it's essential to prioritize not only the physical well-being of pediatric patients but also their emotional health. Join us for this informative webinar to learn about emotional safety to promote resiliency, healing, and trust for pediatric patients and their families during medical experiences.
The cost is $40. Register now and save your spot! Can’t make the date? A recorded CE module worth 1.0 contact hour will available after the event.
Learn more about the Association of Child Life Professionals’ (ACLP) Emotional Safety Initiative on their website and by taking PNCB’s free CE module Emotionally Safe Care, which also grants 1.0 contact hour.
Learning objectives for this webinar include:
- Describe the basic tenets of emotional safety as it relates to pediatric healthcare.
- Identify steps to incorporate emotional safety into an organization’s culture of safety.
- Articulate how to operationalize a tool to measure, track and reduce emotional harm.
You don’t want to miss this crucial learning opportunity! Register by January 5th.
Presenter: Barbara Romito, MA, CCLS
Barbara Romito, MA, CCLS has been a Certified Child Life Specialist for over 30 years, currently serving as the Director of Child Life and Family Centered Care at the Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, NJ. She has lectured extensively, and published research related to psychosocial care of children and families. She served on the boards of The Association of Child Life Professionals (ACLP), Child Life of Greater NY and recently completed an 8-year term as the ACLP liaison to he American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Hospital Care, authoring the 2021 AAP Policy Statement on Child Life Services. She has spearhead initiatives at the local and national level related to emotional safety in pediatric healthcare, ensuring a culture of commitment
to zero harm.
Questions? Contact info@pncb.org. The PNCB team hopes to see you there! Act today to save your spot to hear from this respected authority.
