Coleman-Connect

Coleman Connect

In addition, I speak to professionals during workshops and college classes on a routine basis.  This is a list of topics geared towards health care professionals, support staff, and teachers/paraprofessionals working with children with significant health care needs:

Chronic Illness in the Acute Care Setting (with an extensive discussion and demonstration related to "accessories" such as home enteral/parenteral feeding, invasive and noninvasive respiratory support, home monitoring, ostomies, orthotics/prosthetics) **This lecture is primarily presented to nursing,  respiratory therapy, and radiology tech students.  However, I could modify the presentation to reflect issues encountered in a school setting.

Mitochondrial Disease and other rare disorders:

the impact of the illness on the family and child's quality of life, and resources to support the child and family (I recently completed writing a continuing 
education course for EI clinicians and other professionals caring for very young children with these disorders.  If there is an interest, I could work with the school system to develop lecture objectives appropriate for their needs.)

Disability Ettiquite

​Professional Boundaries:

Establishing and Maintaining boundaries with patients in different settings and stages of illness,Professional use of social networking tools HIPAA considerations for nurses working in traditional and non-traditional settings

Providing Care for Children with Chronic, Life-Threatening, or Terminal Illnesses (to include Early Intervention, Community Case Management/DPH, home block nursing, 1:1 school nursing, 
hospice/palliative care, and other non-acute roles)

Effective Communication: role-playing and other activities exploring the following situations:

  •  "Parents with Developmental Disabilities
  •  Motor-based expressive aphasia (with age-appropriate cognitive skills)
  •  Sensory impairments
  •  Communication facilitated by translators/interpreters
  •  Illiteracy and its impact on patient education and care
  •  Communication disorders S/P CVA
  •  "Elder Speak

Hospice and Palliative Care throughout the life span 

Transition between levels of care (will include family resources and support systems) 

Providing Care for Children with Chronic, Life-Threatening, or Terminal Illnesses (to include Early Intervention, Community Case Management/DPH, home block nursing, 1:1 school nursing, and other non-acute roles)