TeamPeds Talks

This special edition of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioner’s TeamPeds Talks podcast, FocusED sponsored by the Pediatric Emergency Care Special Interest Group.   FocusED is a podcast program that offers listeners unique insight into the broad scope of pediatric emergency care by exploring a variety of emergency care topics through different lenses across the care continuum.

Vaping, or the use of electronic cigarettes has very quickly become a significant health concern among the youth population. Nicotine and other additives are created in liquid form and sold in pods that are easily inhaled once vaporized. it is easy for teenagers to obtain these products and for health care providers it is concerning that with easy access nicotine exposure at a young age will continue to rise, paving the way for many other additional health concerns.

This 4-part podcast series will focus on vaping. We will be speaking with a nationally recognized pediatrician who has spent more than 15 years evaluating the effects of nicotine on adolescents and targeting cessation endeavors. An in-depth conversation will be had with 2 respiratory therapists who specifically work with teens who vape, how to manage and anticipate withdraw in the hospital. We will be joined by a critical care physician who will focus on managements from the Emergency Department or urgent care setting into the ICU guiding acute management and anticipating higher level interventions. We will also gain insight from a young man who will speak about how he started vaping, why it's so easy to start and continue over the 4 years he has vaped.

Hilary W Baxter is dual certified nurse practitioner at the Emergency Department of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She is starting her 10th year of practice. She currently is the co chair of the Pediatric Emergency Care SIG. She resides in NJ with her husband, 3 kids and 2 dogs. Hilary has presented at several NAPNAP conferences with a focus on providing supportive care during emergent procedures as well teaching suturing at this years Reconnect Symposium. Her focus is on identifying health literacy deficits in the population and assisting families with learning to help manage wellness and health concerns.

This week's guest is Josh, a young man who will speak about how he started vaping, why it's so easy to start and continue over the 4 years he has vaped.

This special edition of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioner’s TeamPeds Talks podcast, FocusED sponsored by the Pediatric Emergency Care Special Interest Group.   FocusED is a podcast program that offers listeners unique insight into the broad scope of pediatric emergency care by exploring a variety of emergency care topics through different lenses across the care continuum.

Vaping, or the use of electronic cigarettes has very quickly become a significant health concern among the youth population. Nicotine and other additives are created in liquid form and sold in pods that are easily inhaled once vaporized. it is easy for teenagers to obtain these products and for health care providers it is concerning that with easy access nicotine exposure at a young age will continue to rise, paving the way for many other additional health concerns.

This 4-part podcast series will focus on vaping. We will be speaking with a nationally recognized pediatrician who has spent more than 15 years evaluating the effects of nicotine on adolescents and targeting cessation endeavors. An in-depth conversation will be had with 2 respiratory therapists who specifically work with teens who vape, how to manage and anticipate withdraw in the hospital. We will be joined by a critical care physician who will focus on managements from the Emergency Department or urgent care setting into the ICU guiding acute management and anticipating higher level interventions. We will also gain insight from a young man who will speak about how he started vaping, why it's so easy to start and continue over the 4 years he has vaped.

Hilary W Baxter is dual certified nurse practitioner at the Emergency Department of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She is starting her 10th year of practice. She currently is the co chair of the Pediatric Emergency Care SIG. She resides in NJ with her husband, 3 kids and 2 dogs. Hilary has presented at several NAPNAP conferences with a focus on providing supportive care during emergent procedures as well teaching suturing at this years Reconnect Symposium. Her focus is on identifying health literacy deficits in the population and assisting families with learning to help manage wellness and health concerns.

This week's guest is Aaron Donoghue, MD, MSCE, an attending physician in the Emergency Department, Trauma Center and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. His areas of expertise are: Emergency airway management, Pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Simulation education

Dr. Donoghue receive his medical education at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick in NJ. He is currently on staff at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in PA. He is dual certified in Critical Care as well as Emergency Medicine and divides time between the two clinical areas. He is faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. His expertise in the Simulation lab and focus on pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation is pioneering intervention in education for BLS and PALS certification and re certification. He is ideal to speak regarding topics of early intervention for respiratory conditions to prevent cardiac failure.

This special edition of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioner’s TeamPeds Talks podcast, FocusED sponsored by the Pediatric Emergency Care Special Interest Group.   FocusED is a podcast program that offers listeners unique insight into the broad scope of pediatric emergency care by exploring a variety of emergency care topics through different lenses across the care continuum.

Vaping, or the use of electronic cigarettes has very quickly become a significant health concern among the youth population. Nicotine and other additives are created in liquid form and sold in pods that are easily inhaled once vaporized. it is easy for teenagers to obtain these products and for health care providers it is concerning that with easy access nicotine exposure at a young age will continue to rise, paving the way for many other additional health concerns.

This 4-part podcast series will focus on vaping. We will be speaking with a nationally recognized pediatrician who has spent more than 15 years evaluating the effects of nicotine on adolescents and targeting cessation endeavors. An in-depth conversation will be had with 2 respiratory therapists who specifically work with teens who vape, how to manage and anticipate withdraw in the hospital. We will be joined by a critical care physician who will focus on managements from the Emergency Department or urgent care setting into the ICU guiding acute management and anticipating higher level interventions. We will also gain insight from a young man who will speak about how he started vaping, why it's so easy to start and continue over the 4 years he has vaped.

Hilary W Baxter is dual certified nurse practitioner at the Emergency Department of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She is starting her 10th year of practice. She currently is the co chair of the Pediatric Emergency Care SIG. She resides in NJ with her husband, 3 kids and 2 dogs. Hilary has presented at several NAPNAP conferences with a focus on providing supportive care during emergent procedures as well teaching suturing at this years Reconnect Symposium. Her focus is on identifying health literacy deficits in the population and assisting families with learning to help manage wellness and health concerns.

This week's guests are Cassy & Lee Ann, 2 respiratory therapists who specifically work with teens who vape, how to manage and anticipate withdraw in the hospital.

This special edition of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioner’s TeamPeds Talks podcast, FocusED sponsored by the Pediatric Emergency Care Special Interest Group.   FocusED is a podcast program that offers listeners unique insight into the broad scope of pediatric emergency care by exploring a variety of emergency care topics through different lenses across the care continuum.

Vaping, or the use of electronic cigarettes has very quickly become a significant health concern among the youth population. Nicotine and other additives are created in liquid form and sold in pods that are easily inhaled once vaporized. it is easy for teenagers to obtain these products and for health care providers it is concerning that with easy access nicotine exposure at a young age will continue to rise, paving the way for many other additional health concerns.

This 4-part podcast series will focus on vaping. We will be speaking with a nationally recognized pediatrician who has spent more than 15 years evaluating the effects of nicotine on adolescents and targeting cessation endeavors. An in-depth conversation will be had with 2 respiratory therapists who specifically work with teens who vape, how to manage and anticipate withdraw in the hospital. We will be joined by a critical care physician who will focus on managements from the Emergency Department or urgent care setting into the ICU guiding acute management and anticipating higher level interventions. We will also gain insight from a young man who will speak about how he started vaping, why it's so easy to start and continue over the 4 years he has vaped.

Hilary W Baxter is dual certified nurse practitioner at the Emergency Department of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She is starting her 10th year of practice. She currently is the co chair of the Pediatric Emergency Care SIG. She resides in NJ with her husband, 3 kids and 2 dogs. Hilary has presented at several NAPNAP conferences with a focus on providing supportive care during emergent procedures as well teaching suturing at this years Reconnect Symposium. Her focus is on identifying health literacy deficits in the population and assisting families with learning to help manage wellness and health concerns.

This week's guest is Brian Jenssen, MD, MSHP, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania, a practicing primary care pediatrician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), a faculty member at PolicyLab and the Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness at CHOP, and the Medical Director for Value-Based Care for CHOP’s Care Network. He holds a bachelor's degree from the Davidson College, NC, received his MD from the University of Rochester, NY, and is board certified in pediatrics and clinical informatics. He completed a residency in pediatrics and served as chief resident at CHOP. From 2014-2016, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and earned his Master of Science in Health Policy Research (MSHP).

This special edition of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioner’s TeamPeds Talks podcast, FocusED sponsored by the Pediatric Emergency Care Special Interest Group.   FocusED is a podcast program that offers listeners unique insight into the broad scope of pediatric emergency care by exploring a variety of emergency care topics through different lenses across the care continuum.

Nicole Koepke, MSN, CPNP-PC, a nurse practitioner and the chair of the Pediatric Emergency Care Special Interest Group will be your host.  She has 20 years of experience as an Emergency Department Nurse Practitioner and is currently working as an innovation specialist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in their Primary Care Network.

In this 4 part series we've been focusing on Gun Violence Prevention Strategies, taking an in depth look at the public health crisis of gun violence in the United States.

In this episode we will be examining Gun Violence Prevention through the lens of the Hospital-based Violence Intervention Program with Dr. Joel Fein from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Joel A. Fein MD, MPH is a Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania and an attending physician in the Emergency Department at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). He is a Co-director of the Center for Violence Prevention at CHOP within the Center for Injury Research and Prevention. Dr. Fein is also the Research Director of the Health Alliance for Violence Prevention (theHAVI) and a member of the leadership team for The Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress, an intervention development center within the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Locally, Dr. Fein is on the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Anti-drug Anti-Violence Network (PAAN) and is the research co-chair of the Philadelphia ACES Task Force. At CHOP he is the Director of Advocacy and Health Policy for the Emergency Department. 

This special edition of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioner’s TeamPeds Talks podcast, FocusED sponsored by the Pediatric Emergency Care Special Interest Group.   FocusED is a podcast program that offers listeners unique insight into the broad scope of pediatric emergency care by exploring a variety of emergency care topics through different lenses across the care continuum. 

Nicole Koepke, MSN, CPNP-PC, a nurse practitioner and the chair of the Pediatric Emergency Care Special Interest Group will be your host.  She has 20 years of experience as an Emergency Department Nurse Practitioner and is currently working as an innovation specialist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in their Primary Care Network. 

In this 4 part series we've been focusing on Gun Violence Prevention Strategies, taking an in depth look at the public health crisis of gun violence in the United States.  

In this episode we will be looking at gun violence through a slightly different lens and examining the aftermath: gun violence as an epidemic affecting youth and families across generations.

This special edition of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioner’s TeamPeds Talks podcast, FocusED sponsored by the Pediatric Emergency Care Special Interest Group.   FocusED is a podcast program that offers listeners unique insight into the broad scope of pediatric emergency care by exploring a variety of emergency care topics through different lenses across the care continuum.

In this 4 part series focusing on Gun Violence Prevention Strategies we will be taking an in depth look at the public health crisis of gun violence in the United States.

Nicole Koepke, MSN, CPNP-PC, a nurse practitioner and the chair of the Pediatric Emergency Care Special Interest Group will be your host. She has 20 years of experience as an Emergency Department Nurse Practitioner and is currently working as an innovation specialist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in their Primary Care Network.

In this episode we will be examining Gun Violence Prevention with an Acute Care lens from the Emergency Department.  Specifically, we will be looking at gun safety as a suicide prevention strategy and how community outreach differs in the Emergency Department.  We will be talking with Kate Donches, Chief resident of the pediatric residency program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and life-long Philly native.

This special edition of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioner’s TeamPeds Talks podcast, FocusED sponsored by the Pediatric Emergency Care Special Interest Group.   FocusED is a podcast program that offers listeners unique insight into the broad scope of pediatric emergency care by exploring a variety of emergency care topics through different lenses across the care continuum.

In this 4 part series focusing on Gun Violence Prevention Strategies we will be taking an in depth look at the public health crisis of gun violence in the United States.  

Nicole Koepke, MSN, CPNP-PC, a nurse practitioner and the chair of the Pediatric Emergency Care Special Interest Group will be your host. She has 20 years of experience as an Emergency Department Nurse Practitioner and is currently working as an innovation specialist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in their Primary Care Network.

In this episode we will be examining Gun Violence Prevention through the lens of the Primary Care “Connection” with Dr. Dorothy Novick . Dorothy Novick MD is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, and an Attending Physician at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Her advocacy and clinical work center around violence prevention, trauma-informed care and the social determinants of health. She serves as a Practice-Based Scholar with CHOP's Center for Violence Prevention, a board member of the Education Law Center PA, and an Alumni Ambassador for The OpEd Project. Dr. Novick has written extensively about gun violence and childhood trauma, as well as a range of issues affecting the health and safety of families in her care. 

This special edition of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioner’s TeamPeds Talks podcast, FocusED sponsored by the Pediatric Emergency Care Special Interest Group.   FocusED is a podcast program that offers listeners unique insight into the broad scope of pediatric emergency care by exploring a variety of emergency care topics through different lenses across the care continuum.

Cassandra Newell is a pediatric nurse practitioner. She received her master’s degree in nursing from Yale University School of Nursing in 2005. After graduation she worked in general pediatrics at the University of Kansas before moving to the Emergency Department (ED) at Children’s Mercy Kansas City (CM-KC) Adele Hall Campus, where she has worked for the last 12 years. Cassandra currently serves as Secretary for the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioner’s (NAPNAP) Pediatric Emergency Care Special Interest Group. Since 2019, she has volunteered as an Advocate for the Alliance for Children in Trafficking giving peer-peer education presentations to health care providers. Cassandra serves as Secretary for the Greater Kansas City Local Chapter of NAPNAP.

In this episode, Allison tells us about the Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force and what the partnership or collaboration should look like between health care providers, hospitals, and those at the state level in the fight against human trafficking. Dan tells us about the law enforcement component of human trafficking, the indicators, how health care providers can report and document human trafficking concerns and then what happens next. Lastly, they provide listeners with advice on how to work with officials at the state and law enforcement level.

Alison Phillips is the Director of the Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force for the Missouri Attorney General’s Office. Her job entails facilitating the work of this multi-disciplinary task force in order to create unified and informed state-wide efforts to combat human trafficking. She has previously worked as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Missouri in Kansas City (UMKC) and Mid-America Nazarene University and teaches a course on human trafficking. She has been active in the anti-trafficking movement since 2012 and has a Master’s degree in Criminal Justice and Criminology.

Dan Nash has been a Missouri State Trooper for 26 years and is currently a Sergeant with the Human Trafficking Unit. Dan is a member of and supervises the enforcement section of the Missouri Attorney General’s Office Anti-Trafficking Task Force. Dan teaches Human Trafficking to law enforcement in multiple states and created the Special Victims Methodology on how to interview trafficking victims.

This special edition of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioner’s TeamPeds Talks podcast, FocusED sponsored by the Pediatric Emergency Care Special Interest Group.   FocusED is a podcast program that offers listeners unique insight into the broad scope of pediatric emergency care by exploring a variety of emergency care topics through different lenses across the care continuum.

Cassandra Newell is a pediatric nurse practitioner. She received her master’s degree in nursing from Yale University School of Nursing in 2005. After graduation she worked in general pediatrics at the University of Kansas before moving to the Emergency Department (ED) at Children’s Mercy Kansas City (CM-KC) Adele Hall Campus, where she has worked for the last 12 years. Cassandra currently serves as Secretary for the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioner’s (NAPNAP) Pediatric Emergency Care Special Interest Group. Since 2019, she has volunteered as an Advocate for the Alliance for Children in Trafficking giving peer-peer education presentations to health care providers. Cassandra serves as Secretary for the Greater Kansas City Local Chapter of NAPNAP.

In this episode, Heidi and Rachel discuss case studies of child trafficking and tools on identifying warning signs for new providers. They share resources for the provider who identified a child at risk or potentially being trafficked.

Heidi Olson is a Certified Pediatric Nurse, Certified Pediatric Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) and the SANE Program Manager at Children’s Mercy Kansas City. Since 2019, Heidi’s team has identified numerous trafficking victims through the use of an evidence-based screening tool in the Emergency Department. Additionally, Heidi started and co-leads the human trafficking work group at Children’s Mercy which aims to increase recognition of victims and provide support for vulnerable kids.

Rachel Whitfield is a Family Nurse Practitioner working in Adolescent Medicine at Children’s Mercy Kansas City. Rachel works in both the primary care and residential mental health settings and often encounters vulnerable youth in her practice. Rachel has a particular interest in the recognition and intervention of vulnerable youth in the clinical setting which is how she got involved in human trafficking work. She is the co-founder/co-leader of the human trafficking work group at Children’s Mercy which aims to increase recognition of victims in the health care setting and provide support for vulnerable youth in our area.