Building Rapport with Children

This Travel CPD Conference is brought to you in partnership with Nurses for Nurses. The focus of the Conference is developing your clinical play skills to effectively communicate and interact with children in your care, so that the children and their parents feel less anxious and more confident in the provision of their individualised health care plan.

All Nurses see paediatric clients at some time and no matter what area of Nursing you work in (e.g. Acute Care, A&E, ICU, Theatre, Medical Imaging or Paediatrics, you are going to come across children who are unable or unwilling to communicate like an adult patient can.

If you can learn to talk and play, then you exponentially increase your literacy skills so you can communicate to children and adults in creative, playful yet effective ways. To do this you will need to learn about how children develop sequentially and holistically.

Learning Outcomes

• Gain an understanding of psychosocial and play development of children
• Identify, describe and practice the main therapeutic skills to engage children
• Demonstrate how to apply therapeutic skills to facilitate supporting children through positioning, procedural education, and distraction
• Learn to communicate through play using toys, puppet, and other creative media

This Conference provides attendees 18 hours of Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

The venue for the Conference is the Norwegian Bliss, a most fabulous Conference venue where you can explore key destinations along the Mexican Riviera outside the Conference program hours.

Presenters

Dr Judi Parson

Dr Judi Parsons is a paediatric qualified Registered Nurse, Play Therapist / Supervisor, Senior Lecturer in Play Therapy and Course Director for the Graduate Certificate / Diploma of Therapeutic Child Play and Master of Child Play Therapy courses at Deakin University.

Her PhD titled “Integration of procedural play for children undergoing Cystic Fibrosis treatment: A nursing perspective” led her to study Play Therapy, through the School of Psychology at Roehampton University, London, U.K.

Judi is actively involved in the development of play therapy in Australia and she does this through maintaining a small clinical load as well as by engaging in a range of research projects in relation to paediatrics and play therapy, and also provides clinical supervision as well as research supervision to candidates in the field of paediatrics and play therapy. Judi has authored a number of international peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.

 
Brooke Batchelor

Brooke Batchelor is a Paediatric Registered Nurse, qualified Primary Teacher and children’s advocate. She founded ‘The Paediatric Nurse’ website in 2018 and has developed it into an online continuing professional development website for Paediatric Nurses.

She is passionate about giving children a voice in healthcare and works tirelessly towards encouraging others to further develop their child and family centered care approaches.

Brooke has recently joined the Advisory Board for the Standish Foundation – a charitable organisation that promotes child & family centered care, empowers healthcare professionals and provides funding & resources to healthcare professionals. Previously, Brooke also sat on the Board of Directors for the Association for the Well-being of Children in Healthcare, Australia and held the Vice President position in 2017.

Brooke has a keen interest in holistic care and is awaiting her Diploma in Aromatherapy certification and is currently studying towards her Yoga Teacher Training.

When Brooke is not nursing or hosting webinars, she is spending quality time with her husband and 2 daughters or enjoying a yoga session with some essential oils & meditation thrown in.

The Program:

The program content is provided by expert Nurse Educators with extensive clinical and education experience. The education content provided in this program meets the same exacting standards as anything offered in an Australian land-based program.

No matter what conference you attend you always need accommodation a cruise ship provides a great all-inclusive* accommodation option to enhance your Conference experience.

The Nurses for Nurses Network combines great education with fabulous travel adventures. We have taken a holistic approach to Nursing Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to ensure you get the most out of your education-travel experience.

The Online Library:

The Library has been created so that you have access to some of the Conference content prior to our sail date. The documents, including self-directed activities and webinars, from our Conference Presenter, are provided so that you can create your own conference experience and access information and sessions of interest prior to the commencement of the Conference program.

Disclaimer: Sessions are correct at time of publication. Sessions are subject to change without notice due to circumstances beyond the control of the organisers. NFN and EAS reserves the right to alter charges, cancel, postpone, change or withdraw the product or service at any time.