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2025 Annual School Health Conference

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Add to Calendar 2025 Annual School Health Conference 7/31/2025 8:00:00 AM 7/31/2025 5:00:00 PM America/Chicago For More Details: https://childrensmercy.cloud-cme.com/course/courseoverview?EID=7501 Description: This annual conference is designed for school nurses and school professionals who provide care for children in the school setting. This year's focus is on current mental and physical health issues. Attendees can expect interactive presentations, an engaging Expo with educational exhibits, and hands-on skills stations featuring pediatric and community experts. Big Slick Auditorium (CMRI) false MM/DD/YYYY


Date & Location
Thursday, July 31, 2025, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Big Slick Auditorium (CMRI)

Overview

This annual conference is designed for school nurses and school professionals who provide care for children in the school setting. This year's focus is on current mental and physical health issues. Attendees can expect interactive presentations, an engaging Expo with educational exhibits, and hands-on skills stations featuring pediatric and community experts.


Credits
ANCC Contact Hour(s) (6.25 hours), General Attendance (6.25 hours), Social Work (4.00 hours)

ANCC Learning Outcomes
At the conclusion of this activity, learners will be able to:

  1. Self-report increased knowledge and awareness of accessible resources at CM and in the community that are resources to both school personnel as well as students of all ages.
  2. Identify at least one strategy or action from knowledge gained that they intend to integrate into their own school nurse practice to improve care of children and adolescents in the school setting.
  3. Self-report increased confidence to perform nursing skills in the school setting.
  4. Self-report increased skills to support students’ behavioral and mental health in the school setting.

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Accreditation

Nursing:

Participants who meet the requirements for successful completion will receive up to 6.25 nursing contact hours

Children’s Mercy Kansas City is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Midwest Multistate Division, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Social Work:

4 Social Work CEUs will be provided to licensed social workers. Children’s Mercy Hospital’s Department of Social Work has been approved as a Continuing Education Provider by the State of Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board.


Additional Information

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations should be received in writing no less than 20 days before the course. Please send cancellation requests to [email protected].

Children's Mercy Kansas City reserves the right to cancel or postpone this program if necessary; in the event of cancellation, course fees will be fully refunded. We are not responsible for other costs incurred such as non-refundable airline tickets or hotel penalties.

Accessibility Statement
 
Children's Mercy Kansas City is committed to ensuring that its programs, services, goods and facilities are accessible to individuals with disabilities as specified under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008.  If you have needs that require special accommodations, including dietary concerns, please contact the CME Conference Coordinator.




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Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships


Children's Mercy Continuing Medical Education adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

Member Information
Role in activity
Nature of Relationship(s) / Name of Ineligible Company(s)
Kelly O'Neill, MSN, RN, NPD-BC
Education and Professional Development Program Manager
Children's Mercy
Olathe, KS
Activity Administrator, Activity Coordinator, Nurse Planner
Nothing to disclose
Brian Mays, MPH
Children's Mercy
Lenexa, KS
Activity Coordinator
Emily Thorpe, M. Ed.
Program Manager, School-Based Health Initiatives
Children's Mercy
Kansas City, MO
Activity Coordinator
Nothing to disclose
Bart Andrews, PhD
Faculty
Faculty Photos
Ram Chettiar, DO, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry
Physician
Children's Mercy Kansas City
Leawood, KS
Faculty
Nothing to disclose
Faculty Photos
Annie Coffelt, RRT
Childrens Mercy
Platte city, MO
Faculty
Patricia Davis, LCSW, LSCSW
Program Manager Trauma Informed Care, Children's Mercy Kansas City
Children's Mercy Kansas City
Lake Lotawana, MO
Faculty
Nothing to disclose
Lacy Dillon, MSN, Nurse practitioner
Nurse Practitioner
Children's Mercy
Olathe , KS
Faculty
Tara Otterson, BSN, RNC-NIC, CBC
Faculty
Sarah Peters, BSN RN RD
,
Faculty
Gail Robertson, PhD
Pediatric Psychologist
Children's Mercy Hospital
Mission, KS
Faculty
Nothing to disclose
Ashley Schuyler, RRT-NPS
Education Coordinator
Childrens Mercy Hospital
Glandstone, MO
Faculty
Faculty Photos
Amanda D. Deacy, PhD
Director, Gastroenterology Integrated Care Services; Clinical Director, Abdominal Pain Program; Child Psychologist
Children's Mercy
Kansas City , MO
Other Planning Committee Member
Nothing to disclose
Angela Guzman, LMSW
Behavioral Health Community Education Coordinator
CMH
Kansas City, MO
Other Planning Committee Member
Angela Knackstedt, BSN, RN, NPD-BC
Children's Mercy
Kansas City, MO
Other Planning Committee Member
Nothing to disclose

Thursday, July 31, 2025

Community Resource Fair
8:00AM - 9:00AM

Welcome
9:00AM - 9:10AM

Trauma-Responsive Instruction and Informed Work
9:10AM - 10:10AM
Patricia Davis, LCSW, LSCSW
CMRI Auditorium

Objectives:

As a result of this this learning experience, I can:

1. define the psychological effects of trauma across development.

2. use a toolkit with screening options and scripting

3. understand interventions to counter childhood trauma

More than a Feeling: Recognizing the Physical Manifestations of Depression and Anxiety in Youth
10:10AM - 11:10AM
Ram Chettiar, DO, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry
CMRI Auditorium

Objectives:

As a result of this this learning experience, I can:

1. discuss the link between mental and physical health.

2. review common physical symptoms of depression and anxiety in young people.

3. provide practical tips for supporting depressed and anxious youth.

Break
11:10AM - 11:25AM

Saving Hope: A New Lens for Suicide Prevention
11:25AM - 12:25PM
Bart Andrews, PhD
CMRI Auditorium

Objectives:

As a result of this this learning experience, I can:

1. distinguish between outdated models of suicide behavior (medical/mental illness based) and embrace an integrated model and understand the role environment and culture play in driving suicide behavior and why suicide rates vary drastically from culture to culture.

2. explore aspects of youth suicide and groups with higher and/or rising rates of suicide: men, members of LGBTQ community, and adolescents.

3. identify action steps that healthcare providers can take to meet our increasing need for a new approach to suicide prevention.

Lunch and Children's Mercy Resource Fair
12:25PM - 1:45PM

Psychosocial Complexity in the Care of the Student with Diabetes
1:45PM - 2:45PM
Gail Robertson, PhD
CMRI Auditorium

Objectives:

As a result of this this learning experience, I can:

1. describe typical development and recognize psychosocial and mental health problems that can occur for individuals with type 1 diabetes (preschool to high school).

2. identify changes in emotional and behavioral functioning, as well as coping strategies.

3. describe the strategies to address common diabetes related psychosocial concerns in adolescents.

 

Optional Hands-on Training

Afternoon Optional Hands-On Training (45-minute sessions) Rotation through 3 stations – 45 minutes each • 2:45 - 3:30: Classroom 2 (32 people) - G Tubes - Tara Otterson, BSN, RNC-NIC, CBC, Nursing Program Coordinator, Enteral Access Team, Children’s Mercy • 3:30 – 4:15: Classroom 5 (32 people) – Catheter and foley care - Lacy Dillon, MSN, FNP-C, CPN, Advanced Practice RN, Division of Urology, Children’s Mercy • 4:15 – 5:00: Classroom 9 (32 people) - Tracheostomy Care - Ashley Schuyler, MPH, RRT-NPS, AE-C and Annie Coffelt, BHS, RRT-NPS, Tracheostomy Program Coordinator, Children’s Mercy
Hands-on skills Training: Gastrostomy
2:45PM - 3:30PM
Tara Otterson, BSN, RNC-NIC, CBC
Sarah Peters, BSN RN RD


Objectives:

As a result of this this learning experience, I can:

1. integrate gastrostomy tube knowledge into current practice to improve care of children and teens in the school setting.

2. demonstrate the steps required to care for a student's dislodged gastrostomy tube and recognize the need for further intervention.

3. perform different methods of gastrostomy tube feedings.

 

Hands-on skills Training: Catheter and Foley Care
3:30PM - 4:15PM
Lacy Dillon, MSN, Nurse practitioner


Objectives:

As a result of this this learning experience, I can:

1. report confidence in taking care of children who perform clean intermittent catheterization or have an indwelling foley catheter.

Hands-on skills Training:Tracheostomy Care
4:15PM - 5:00PM
Ashley Schuyler, RRT-NPS
Annie Coffelt, RRT


Objectives:

As a result of this this learning experience, I can:

1. understand the purpose of a tracheostomy and the process of cleaning the neck and stoma, suctioning a trach, and changing a trach tube.

2. identify and respond to tracheostomy related emergencies.

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