Child Life Value Proposition Statement
The Child Life Value Proposition Statement details the evidence-based outcomes associated with child life intervention, articulated for an audience primarily composed of healthcare administrators, executives, and other high-level decision-makers.
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The Beryl Institutes' White Paper on Child Life
The ACLP Patient Experience Committee worked in collaboration with the Beryl Institute to produce a white paper,
What Patient Experience Can Learn from Child Life Professionals.
The paper explores the value and impact of child life efforts and the core philosophies of child life that could inform patient experience efforts more broadly. In the paper, contributors shared their insights and personal stories addressing the role of child life in patient and family experience overall and key philosophies of child life practice that can inform patient experience efforts. The paper includes an overview of seven concepts that can guide experience efforts and offers direct considerations for action relevant across healthcare settings.
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Emotional Safety in Pediatrics
This paper was authored by the Association of Child Life Professionals in collaboration with child life specialists, physicians, nurses, other healthcare professionals, and caregivers. Every child deserves emotionally safe care. Our national movement to create a new, emotionally safe standard of pediatric care is rooted in the findings in this paper.
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Professional Advancement Model Resource Guide
Developed by the Clinical Ladder Task Force, this guide provides direction and guidance to programs looking to develop or enhance a professional advancement model.
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