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ForwardCaring for the Student with a Tracheostomy and/or Gastrostomy Tube in the School Setting - January 2025
IN-PERSON ACTIVITY
Overview, Target Audience and Learning Objectives
This program is recommended for nurses who care for children with tracheostomy and/or gastrostomy tubes in the school setting. Didactic training will be provided for both tracheostomies and gastrostomies followed by skill stations. Tracheostomy skills stations will include general tracheostomy care, tie/tube changes, suctioning, emergency bag/trach ventilation, ventilator basics, and emergency simulation. Participants will also rotate through gastrostomy skills stations to include accidental dislodgement, tube care, feeding, venting, giving medications, and troubleshooting. After attending this event, participants will report increased knowledge and intent to change practice related to caring for children in the school setting with tracheostomies, ventilator dependence, and gastrostomy tubes. During this event, participants will demonstrate skill competence with tracheostomies, ventilators, and gastrostomy tubes.
Course size is limited to the first 60 participants, so register early!
Resource Material
You can find resources at our School Nurse Resources website. Feel free to print and bring them to the conference. Copies will not be provided.
School Nurse Resources | Children's Hospital Colorado (childrenscolorado.org)
Learning Objectives
- Describe medical indications for needing a tracheostomy or gastrostomy tube.
- Explore the role of delegation and care coordination and the importance of building resource capacity when caring for children with tracheostomies and gastrostomy tubes in the school setting.
- Demonstrate skills related to tracheostomy care, including daily cares of suctioning, cleaning and tracheostomy tie/tube changes to prevent complications of skin breakdown/infection, plugging and decannulation, emergency ventilation, and the basics of the ventilator operations.
- Demonstrate skills related to gastrostomy tube accidental dislodgement, care, feeding, venting, giving medications, and troubleshooting.
- Identify practice changes that nurses can implement in their daily practice when caring for children with a tracheostomy or gastrostomy tubes, including those related to delegation and care coordination.
Additional Information
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
 SHP 2025 Skills Lab Brochure.pdf | 604.84 KB |
Agenda
8:30am | Check-in and Light Breakfast |
9:00 | Welcome and Instructions |
9:15 | Tracheostomy: It Takes a Team |
9:45 | Tracheostomy Complications |
10:05 | Care Coordination and Delegation |
10:35 | Ventilators |
11:30 | Lunch (provided) |
12:00pm | Gastrostomy Care and Stoma Preservation in School |
12:30 | Breakout Sessions |
2:00 | Break |
2:15 | Breakout Sessions |
3:15 | Break |
3:30 | Pulling It All Together |
4:00 | What Will You Do Differently? Q&A |
4:15 | Closing and Evaluation |
4:30 | Adjourn |
Breakout Sessions
Learners will rotate through the following sessions:
- Breakout A: Emergency Ventilation (Bagging)
- Breakout B: Tracheostomy Care and Changes
- Breakout C: Tracheostomy Suctioning
- Breakout D: G-Tube Care and Stoma Preservation
- Breakout E: Ventilators
*Program subject to change
This skills lab will take place in the Medical Conference and Education Center in the Mt. Yale and Mt. Princeton conference rooms on the 2nd floor.
Faculty/Planning Committee*
Kelly Brown, MPH, BSN, RN
School Nurse Consultant
School Health Program
Children's Hospital Colorado
Erin Bluth, BSN, RN
School Nurse Consultant
School Health Program
Children's Hospital Colorado
Kirsten Christensen, MSN, RN, NPD-BC*
Professional Development Specialist
Professional Development
Children's Hospital Colorado
Ray Cuellar*
Operations Coordinator
Professional Development
Children's Hospital Colorado
Jessica Dawson, MSN, RN, CPN*
Ventilator Care Program Clinical Specialty Coordinator
Clinical Scholar
Children's Hospital Colorado
Catherine Doernbrack, MSN, RN, CPNP-PC*
Senior Instructor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Special Care Clinic and Epidermolysis Bullosa Regional Program
Liaison to School Nurses with a focus on medically fragile and technology-dependent children
Adaptive Care Program Provider
Children's Hospital Colorado
Nicole Guider, BSN, RN, NCSN*
School Health Nurse Consultant
Children's Hospital Colorado
Sasha Jacobs-Lowry, BSN, RN, NCSN
School Nurse Consultant
Children's Hospital Colorado
Andria Redman, BSN, RN, AE-C
School Nurse Consultant
School Health Program
Children's Hospital Colorado
Nicki Shonka, MS RN NPD-BC CPN
Clinical Education Outreach Program Director
Professional Development
Children’s Hospital Colorado
Whitney Smith, MSN, RN, CHSE*
Manager, Simulation Program
Children's Hospital Colorado
Meagan Watton, RRT*
Pulmonary Rehab
Respiratory Chronic Care Specialist
Children's Hospital Colorado
Julie Wilken, MPH, RN, NCSN*
Clinical Manager, School Health
Children's Hospital Colorado
Nursing Continuing Professional Development (NCPD): Children's Hospital Colorado is approved with distinction as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by Colorado Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. This offering for up to 5.75 nursing contact hours is provided by Children’s Hospital Colorado. Only claim the hours you attend.
Completion Criteria: Attendance, sign-in, and submission of an evaluation after session are required for successful completion and receipt of certificate of attendance.
Financial Disclosures: Planners, faculty, and others in control of content (either individually or as a group) have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
Available Credit
- 5.75 Attendance
- 5.75 NCPD
Price
Cancellation Policy
No refunds will be granted for non-attendance, although you may send a substitute. The Planning Committee reserves the right to alter the agenda or cancel the conference in the event of an unforeseen circumstance, or if the minimum registration is not attained with a full refund to participants