TeamPeds Talks

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TeamPeds Talks episodes

October 14, 2021 A Human Trafficking Work Group at a Children’s Hospital S3 E2
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 share how they developed a human trafficking work group at children’s hospital in the Midwest from the ground up. They describe their future goals for this work group and provide advice for nurse practitioners who may want to start a human trafficking work group where they practice.
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.
39 min
October 07, 2021 The Stop Trafficking Project S3 E1
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, Russ Tuttle describes how and why he started The Stop Trafficking Project program. He shares his perspective and insight on the role of social media in the exploitation of vulnerabilities among children and students. Lastly, he gives advice on how nurse practitioners can educate their patients and parents about the dangers of social media in the exploitation of their vulnerabilities.
Russ Tuttle is the president and founder of The Stop Trafficking Project. The Stop Trafficking Project is a program to help end domestic sex trafficking and exploitation of the vulnerable populations. He is an active member of several coalitions and task forces in Kansas and Missouri and the creator and director of BeAlert, which helps in the prevention and awareness strategy of The Stop Trafficking Project.
45 min
June 01, 2021 Final Episode- Focus on Child and Adolescents Mental Health
In this last episode Dr. Jessica Peck goes back to the episodes, guests, and topics we meet and explored in this series.
Tune in to remember your favorite episodes and to learn about an episode you may missed.
To learn more about the series and about TeamPeds Talks click here!
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33 min
May 25, 2021 Teens and Dating Violence
TeamPeds Talks will focus on Mental Health in our second Conversations on Child Health series.
Each conversation episode is hosted by National Association of Pediatric Nurse Pediatric Executive Board President Jessica Peck, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC, CNE, CNL, FAANP. This episode's guest is Jeff Temple PhD, discussing Social Media.
In this episode, nationally recognized psychologist Dr. Jeff Temple discusses the impact of COVID-19 on teen social media use and sexting. He also raises awareness of risk for teen dating violence and best practices for prevention. His work has been featured by CNN, the NY Times, TIME Magazine, and the Washington Post.
Dr. Temple is the John Sealy Distinguished Chair in Community Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch, as well as a Licensed Psychologist and the Founding Director of the Center for Violence Prevention. His research focuses on the prevention of interpersonal, community, and structural violence, and has been funded through the National Institute of Justice, National Institutes of Health, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He has over 230 scholarly publications in a variety of high-impact journals including JAMA, JAMA Pediatrics, The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, Pediatrics, and the Journal of Adolescent Health. He recently co-edited a book on adolescent dating violence, is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Primary Prevention, and is on the editorial boards of four other scientific journals. Dr. Temple recently co-chaired the Texas Task Force on Domestic Violence and served on the Board of Directors of the Texas Psychological Association. Locally, he served for 7 years as the Vice President of the Galveston Independent School District Board of Trustees. His work has been featured on CNN, New York Times, TIME Magazine, Washington Post, and even the satirical website, The Onion.
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41 min
May 18, 2021 Motivational Interviewing and Risk Assessment in Teens Part 2
TeamPeds Talks will focus on Mental Health in our second Conversations on Child Health series.
Each conversation episode is hosted by National Association of Pediatric Nurse Pediatric Executive Board President Jessica Peck, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC, CNE, CNL, FAANP.
This episode's guest is Jennifer Salerno, discussing Motivational Interviewing and Risk Assessment in Teens.
Dr. Jennifer Salerno, Nurse Practitioner. Researcher. Author. Mom.
Dr. Jen is an internationally-recognized expert on preventing and reducing youth risk behaviors. With more than 20 years experience as a nurse practitioner, and as a mom of two herself, Dr. Jen understands teens and their families.
Having a trusted adult is one of the most important factors for preventing and reducing youth risk behaviors.
Using the latest technologies, research, and communication strategies, Dr. Jen equips parents and professionals with the practical tools they need to feel comfortable connecting with youth on important topics like substance use, sex and mental health.
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41 min
May 11, 2021 Motivational Interviewing and Risk Assessment in Teens Part 1
TeamPeds Talks will focus on Mental Health in our second Conversations on Child Health series.
Each conversation episode is hosted by National Association of Pediatric Nurse Pediatric Executive Board President Jessica Peck, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC, CNE, CNL, FAANP.
This episode's guest is Jennifer Salerno, discussing Motivational Interviewing and Risk Assessment in Teens.
Dr. Jennifer Salerno, Nurse Practitioner. Researcher. Author. Mom.
Dr. Jen is an internationally-recognized expert on preventing and reducing youth risk behaviors. With more than 20 years experience as a nurse practitioner, and as a mom of two herself, Dr. Jen understands teens and their families.
Having a trusted adult is one of the most important factors for preventing and reducing youth risk behaviors.
Using the latest technologies, research, and communication strategies, Dr. Jen equips parents and professionals with the practical tools they need to feel comfortable connecting with youth on important topics like substance use, sex and mental health.
For more information on what you heard in this episode visit Possibilities for Change
Join us next time for part 2
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30 min
May 04, 2021 Children with Special Health Care Needs and Intellectual Disabilities
TeamPeds Talks will focus on Mental Health in our second Conversations on Child Health series.
Each conversation episode is hosted by National Association of Pediatric Nurse Pediatric Executive Board President Jessica Peck, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC, CNE, CNL, FAANP. This episode's guests are Julie LaMothe DNP, APRN, CPNP, CNE , Beth Morton DNP, RN, CPN, and Cindy Hill DNP, RN, CPN, discussing Special Needs.
An African proverb says “It takes a village to raise a child.” Join three faculty experts from Indiana University to learn how APRNs are prepared to care for children with special needs, support transitions from pediatric to adult care, and partner with school professionals and nurses to help families improve mental health outcomes.
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40 min
April 27, 2021 Adverse Childhood Events and Trauma-Informed Care
TeamPeds Talks will focus on Mental Health in our second Conversations on Child Health series.
Each conversation episode is hosted by National Association of Pediatric Nurse Pediatric Executive Board President Jessica Peck, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC, CNE, CNL, FAANP. This episode's guest is Anna Goddard PhD, APRN, CPNP-PC, discussing Adverse Childhood Events.
Dr. Goddard works as an Assistant Professor at Sacred Heart University, Davis & Henley College of Nursing where she teaches Quality Improvement, Epidemiology, Evidence Based Practice. With a variety of roles in School-Based Health Center practice including past-Director of Medical Services at Child and Family Agency in Southeastern Connecticut, she continues to work as a SBHC and Early Education Nurse Consultant.
Dr. Goddard has served as the project manager and team-lead for multiple internal, regional, state, and national initiatives.
Dr. Goddard has directed multiple quality improvement processes at Child Family Agency in conjunction with the Alliance, Connecticut Department of Public Health, and the Connecticut Association of School-Based Health Centers (CASBHC), where she is now a Board of Directors representative, providing state. She regularly serves as a peer-reviewer for several high-impact journals, holding multiple publications in the peer-reviewed literature, book chapters, and sought for contribution to consumer publications. Dr. Goddard has conducted workshops and educational sessions of late on adverse childhood experiences and trauma-informed care with accompanying publications in the Journal of Pediatric Health Care and Nurse Education Today.
Dr. Goddard received her PhD from Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (2016), a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) from Yale University (2005) as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Dr. Goddard was most recently selected for the 2020 Kelly-Reed Community Impact Award from the Pediatric Nursing Certification Board and the 2020 Rising Star Award from the National School-based Health Alliance.
In this episode, pediatric nurse practitioner and mental health expert Dr. Anna Goddard explores the long-term health impacts of adverse childhood events. Learn to recognize behavioral and physical symptoms of trauma and how to respond in a trauma-informed way to promote resilience and healthy coping skills.
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33 min
April 20, 2021 Preventing Substance Use in Teens
TeamPeds Talks will focus on Mental Health in our second Conversations on Child Health series.
Each conversation episode is hosted by National Association of Pediatric Nurse Pediatric Executive Board President Jessica Peck, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC, CNE, CNL, FAANP.
This episode's guest is Laura Searcy MSN, PPCNP-BC, discussing Substance Use.
In this episode, pediatric nurse practitioner and nationally recognized expert Laura Searcy shares the current risks for teens using alcohol, marijuana, nicotine, and other substances. Join us for effective strategies to help keep developing teen brains chemical free.
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47 min
April 13, 2021 Caring for the Digital Generation: Understanding Electronic Aggression
TeamPeds Talks will focus on Mental Health in our second Conversations on Child Health series.
Each conversation episode is hosted by National Association of Pediatric Nurse Pediatric Executive Board President Jessica Peck, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC, CNE, CNL, FAANP.
This episode's guest is Melvina Brandau PhD, RN, discussing Electronic Aggression.
In this episode, expert Dr. Mel Brandau explains electronic aggression including cyberbullying, catfishing, outing, flaming, trickery, cyberstalking and trolling. Learn how to recognize these behaviors and how to empower a safe and healthy online presence.
The article discussed in this episode- JPHC CE: Caring for The Digital Generation: Understanding Electronic Aggression
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1 hr

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TeamPeds Talks is a podcast series from the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) and features NAPNAP experts and stakeholders addressing key issues in pediatric health.