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VISITING THE HOSPITAL
The Auxiliary to Texas Children’s Hospital is designing our fifth Conference on Spirituality in Pediatrics
for October 2009. We hope you’ll save the date and plan to join us!
We invite you to
bookmark this page and check back often for more information
as we announce speakers and topics.
Marriott Medical Center
Houston, Texas
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Doctors
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Nurses
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Child Life Specialists
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Chaplains
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Volunteers
Conference prices:
$295 for early registration through August 31, 2009
$325 for registration beginning September 1, 2009
$195 for Texas Children’s Hospital employees and Baylor employees
affiliated with Texas Children's Hospital
(Please note that online registration will become available in
Spring 2009. If you would like to receive a notification when registration
opens please send us an e-mail to
spirituality@texaschildrens.org)
Here are
some of the speakers and topics featured at this year's
conference:
Rabbi Samuel
Karff, Associate Director of the John P. McGovern Center for Health,
Humanities and the Human Spirit
Title: Healthcare as a Sacred Vocation
While work in health care should be intrinsically
meaningful, levels of dissatisfaction, burnout, and turnover
indicate that such is not the case. Participants will explore how
Sacred Vocation nourishes the spirit of the caregiver and results in
greater patient satisfaction.
James Giordano, Ph.D., Georgetown University School of Medicine,
Center for Clinical Bioethics
Title: The Neuroscience of Pain, and Spiritual Experience:
Implications for an Ethics of Pain Care
This lecture will
explore the ethical considerations of beneficence as defined by the
concept of the clinician as “…a therapeutic agent and a moral agent"
and relate these moral obligations to the latest neuroscience on
pain and pain palliation. Participants will examine the beneficial
aspects of patients/families' spirituality and the clinician's role
in leveraging the healing power of spirituality, using it as one of
many tools in the clinical toolbox to treat the “whole patient”.
Allan Hamilton, Allan J. Hamilton MD, FACS Professor of
Neurosurgery and Clinical Professor of Radiation Oncology,
Psychology, and Electrical & Computer Engineering University of
Arizona
Title: From Barn to Bedside: Using Horses to Improve
Non-verbal Communication in the World of Healthcare
For the last seven years, Dr. Hamilton has offered medical students
a unique curriculum using groundwork with horses to develop and
improve their nonverbal skills. This presentation will offer
examples of scenarios and situations where nonverbal signals and
body language can have impact in clinical medicine.
Joan Drescher, Artist in Residence, Massachusetts General
Hospital
Title: A Journey in The Moon Balloon – Helping Children Cope With
Change
Inviting the children of the Children’s Advisory Board of Texas
Children’s Hospital to interact, Joan Drescher will create large
on-the-spot drawings of hot air balloons representing various
emotions. This presentation will demonstrate how drawing images and
symbols are used to express feelings too difficult for words.
Sharing these images can help to open the heart to hope, trust, and
the creative spirit.
Kristie Cullum, R.N.,
Pediatric Hospice Nurse, Houston Hospice
Title: Sacred Moments: Facilitating Conversations with Dying
Children and Their Families
A child is dying, his parents are devastated but do not talk with
him about this because they feel he doesn’t know he is dying; a
child is having nightmares that arise from her fears of dying but
doesn’t say anything because she doesn’t want to make her mother
cry. Kristie Cullum will discuss how caregivers can be present to
bear witness to families resolutions of fear, their expressions of
love and their sense of new found of peace.
And much more
 
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