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    What is Pediatric Medical Traumatic Stress?

    • The basics
    • Prevalence & course
    • Traumatic stress symptoms
    • Risk factors
    • Understanding the family's experience
    • Key research findings

    How to Provide Trauma-Informed Care

    • The basics
    • D-E-F framework
    • Levels of risk and trauma-informed care
    • Timeline for trauma-informed care
    • Referral to mental health care
    • Addressing health disparities
    • Trauma reactions in children
    • Cultural considerations

    Self Care & Secondary Trauma

    • The basics
    • Self care tips
    • Organizational support
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    • The healthcare team
    • Physicians-PAs-NPs
    • Nurses
    • Pre-hospital providers
    • Medical interpreters
    • Mental health professionals
    • Child welfare professionals
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    • Online education for providers
    • Other education resources
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    Screening & Assessment

    Screening & Assessment

    • The basics
    • Find screening & assessment tools
    • Screening after pediatric injury
    • Psychosocial Assessment Tool (PAT)
    • Acute Stress Checklist (ASC-Kids)

    Intervention

    Intervention

    • The basics
    • Surviving Cancer Competently (SCCIP)
    • Cellie Coping Kit

    Trauma-Informed Care

    Trauma-Informed Care

    • The basics
    • TIC Provider Survey
    • Observation Checklist - Pediatric Resuscitation

    COVID-19

    COVID-19

    • COVID-19
    • Resources for healthcare staff
    • COVID-19 Exposure and Family Impact Scales (CEFIS)
    • Helping my child cope

    Resources

    Resources

    • More resources
    • More resources

    Patient Education

    Patient Education

    • For parents & caregivers
    • For children & teens
  • TICKET
  • For Patients and Families
    • Coping with injury or illness
    • Sleep
    • Pain
    • Behavior
    • Worries & fears
    • Quiet or withdrawn
    • School
    • Siblings
    • Parents
    • Need more help?
    • Family voices

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About this Course

This continuing education course provides nurses with an introduction to

  • traumatic stress reactions related to injury and illness
  • how to identify risk factors and signs and symptoms of emotional trauma in children
  • how to address these reactions in the context of everyday pediatric care.

Using two case examples, the continuing education course applies the DEF Protocol for trauma-informed care to real nursing situations and addresses common concerns that nurses have about assessing and addressing child and parent distress.

DEF Protocol series – Learn key skills for pediatric trauma informed care and earn CE pediatric trauma informed care

A three part “how to” guide to build key skills to implement the DEF [Distress, Emotional Support and Family] Protocol with pediatric patients and families.