Tune into another episode in the wellness series! Join Sarah Wheeler, Employee Well-being Manager at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, and Rebecca Crawford, Sr Benefits Analyst at Children's Hospital and Medical Center, as they discuss financial well-being. They specifically discuss how financial well-being impacts overall well-being and suggestions for improving your financial well-being with a healthcare lens. 
Disclosure: Rebecca Crawford is not a certified financial advisor.

Wellness Series Financial Wellness

In the cardiac lesion series, pediatric Intensivist, Dr. Laura Ortmann, describes the background of the cardiac lesion, what it looks like clinically, the most common complications post-operatively, and how the lesion is managed. In this episode, she will discuss a procedure, the Blalock–Thomas–Taussig Shunt. Listen in to learn more! If you plan to listen to the cardiac lesion series in order, this episode follows the Tricuspid Atresia episode. #drortmanncicu #picu #cicu #pediatrics

Cardiac Lesion Series: BTT Shunt

Gratitude Meditation for Healthcare Providers
Join Dr. Hope Voto, DO, a pediatric physical medicine and rehabilitation physician at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, as she takes you through a guided meditation for healthcare providers to explore and delve into feelings of gratitude. Children's Hospital and Medical Center is grateful for our many clinical and non-clinical team members that live out our mission daily. Background music is a royalty free song.

Gratitude Meditation

In the cardiac lesion series, pediatric Intensivist, Dr. Laura Ortmann, describes the background of the cardiac lesion, what it looks like clinically, the most common complications post-operatively, and how the lesion is managed. In this episode, she will discuss the cardiac lesion Tricuspid Atresia. Listen in to learn more! If you plan to listen to the cardiac lesion series in order, this episode follows the Kawashima Procedure. #drortmanncicu #picu #cicu #pediatrics

Cardiac Lesion Series: Tricuspid Atresia

Tune into another episode in the Wellness Series! Join Sarah Wheeler, Corporate Wellness Program Manager at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, and Leslie Turner, Weight and Wellness Program Coordinator, as they discuss how to develop consistency in eating habits for both adults and children. She offers suggestions to promote healthy eating behaviors for children from the start. She also delves into options in hospital cafeterias for healthcare providers to make healthy food choices. #Wellness #WeThrive #ChildrensOmaha

Wellness Series: Weight and Wellness

In the cardiac lesion series, pediatric Intensivist, Dr. Laura Ortmann, instead of describing the background of the cardiac lesion, she will discuss the Kawashima procedure Listen in to learn more! If you plan to listen to the cardiac lesion series in order, this episode follows TET PA MAPCAS. #drortmanncicu #picu #cicu #pediatrics

Cardiac Lesion: Kawashima Procedure

Cardiac Lesion Series: TET PA MAPCAS by Children's Hospital & Medical Center

Cardiac Lesion Series: TET PA MAPCAS

Transport Tidbits: Transverse Myelitis by Children's Hospital & Medical Center

Transport Tidbits: Transverse Myelitis

Tune into another episode in the wellness series! Join Sarah Wheeler, wellness coordinator at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, and Abigail Phillips, registered dietitian, as they discuss various aspects of nutrition and tips for healthcare workers to fuel their bodies before, during, and after busy shifts.

Wellness Nutrition

In the cardiac lesion series, pediatric Intensivist, Dr. Laura Ortmann, describes the background of the cardiac lesion, what it looks like clinically, the most common complications post-operatively, and how the lesion is managed. In this episode, she will discuss the Cardiac Lesion Truncus Arteriosus. There are four different types of Truncus Arteriosus and each type depends on how the pulmonary arteries come off the truncus. If you want to listen in order of the series, this episode follows ALCAPA. Listen in to learn more!

Cardiac Lesion Series: Truncus Arteriosus

Welcome back to some Transport Tidbits. Join members of our transport team at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center as they talk through various diagnoses in each episode. They will cover four things in each short episode: (1) an overview of the condition, (2) assessment of the condition and diagnostic tests, (3) priority interventions for this patient (including medications), and (4) the biggest risk for decompensation in this patient. They will also highlight pertinent questions for you, the inpatient bedside team, to ask when receiving handoff and admitting this patient from the transport team. In this second episode, Kristen Foster, a former transport nurse and now the trauma outreach coordinator at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, will give an overview of the diagnosis MIS-C or Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome.

Transport Tidbits: MIS-C

In the cardiac lesion series, pediatric Intensivist, Dr. Laura Ortmann, describes the background of the cardiac lesion, what it looks like clinically, the most common complications post-operatively, and how the lesion is managed. In this episode, she will discuss the Cardiac Lesion: Anomalous Left Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Artery or ALCAPA. Be sure to tune into all of the cardiac lesion series during the month of February with Congenital Heart Disease Awareness Week!

Cardiac Lesion Series: ALCAPA

Tune into another episode in the wellness series. Join Sarah Wheeler, wellness coordinator at Children's Hospital and Medical Center, and Brooke Sukup, Board Certified Lactation Specialist, as they discuss lactation and the resources at Children's Hospital and Medical Center for both expectant and new moms, managers who support these moms, and staff nurses who work with moms and are fielding questions. They will review resources available and provide some background on lactation.

Wellness Lactation

In the cardiac lesion series, pediatric Intensivist, Dr. Laura Ortmann, describes the background of the cardiac lesion, what it looks like clinically, the most common complications post-operatively, and how the lesion is managed. In this episode, she will discuss the Cardiac Lesion: Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return or TAPVR.

Cardiac Lesion Series: TAPVR

Join Dr. Hope Voto, DO, a pediatric physical medicine and rehabilitation physician at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, as she takes you through a guided meditation for healthcare providers to release stress after a shift. You will find yourself returning to this many times as a means to disconnect after a busy day. Background music is a royalty free song by August Wilhelmsson called Somewhere In Between.

Meditation for Healthcare Providers

Sarah Wheeler, wellness coordinator, and David Huskey, chaplain and thrive coordinator, discuss the concepts of burnout and moral distress. They discuss how our Thrive program at Children's Hospital and Medical Center helps empower staff to reach their fullest potential. Furthermore, they introduce a self-care plan that can be accessed at https://www.childrensomaha.org/for-providers/healing-hearts/. If you have questions about establishing a similar program at your organization or resources Thrive has to offer, email dhuskey@childrensomaha.org

Wellness: Thrive

In the last episode of the shock series, Dr. Sidharth Mahapatra, MD, PhD, FAAP, discusses the other shock states and important characteristics as well as unique clinical management.

Other Shock States: Part 3

In this second episode of the shock series, Dr. Sidharth Mahapatra, MD, PhD, FAAP, describes septic shock. He discusses important assessments, clinical management, and the importance of early intervention for the pediatric population.  
 
References: 

Brown, R. M., Wang, L., Coston, T. D., Krishnan, N. I., Casey, J. D., Wanderer, J. P., et al. (2019). Balanced crystalloids versus saline in sepsis. a secondary analysis of the smart clinical trial. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 200(12), 1487–1495. https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.201903-0557oc 

Sepsis alliance. Sepsis Alliance. (2021, April 26). http://www.sepsis.org/

Weiss, S. L., Peters, M. J., Alhazzani, W., Agus, M. S., Flori, H. R., Inwald,
D. P., et al. (2020). Surviving sepsis campaign international guidelines for the management of septic shock and sepsis-associated organ dysfunction in children. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 21(2).https://doi.org/10.1097/pcc.0000000000002198

Septic Shock: Part 2

Join Dr. Sidharth Mahapatra, MD, PhD, FAAP, a pediatric intensivist at Children's Hospital and Medical Center, as he leads a three-part series on shock. In the first episode, he gives an overview of shock and the pathophysiology. He will also introduce the coming episodes of the series.

Shock: Part 1

Join Sarah Wheeler, MS, wellness coordinator at Children's Hospital and Medical Center, as she introduces a new wellness series that will discuss what the wellness program at Children's has to offer. She will introduce the six dimensions of the wellness program and future episodes you can anticipate. Each episode will give a takeaway point about how they can empower you to reach your fullest potential.

Healing Hearts: Empowering Pediatric Critical Care Providers

Healing Hearts: Empowering Pediatric Critical Care Providers

Get Started

Download the App