Aileen Maxwell Email & Phone Number

• Developed and presented a quality initiative project to the performance improvement team in order to assess and implement best practice for VCUGs
• Assisted current certified child life specialists in the areas of pediatrics, PICU, NICU, outpatient pediatrics clinics including oncology, surgery units, diagnostic imaging, pediatric emergency department, proton.
• Prepared children for and provided distraction during various medical tests and procedures including X-rays, electroencephalography’s, echocardiograms, voiding cystourethrograms, intravenous line starts, magnetic.
• Attended various meetings and presentations such as Process Improvement, staff meetings for both inpatient and outpatient pediatrics, care conferences, PICU Rounds, Schwartz Center Rounds, Morbidity and Mortality.
• Presented case studies to the child life team in relationship to specific patients and their ecological systems
• Led a child life in-service for a group of nursing students

Peoria, Illinois Area

Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area

Responsible for planning and leading groups for children and adolescents who currently had a parent or caregiver with cancer. Groups focused on normalization, play, coping, education, stress relief, relaxation, and expressing emotions. I also planned in-kind outings for the families, and was able to establish strong working relationships with the families.

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

Springfield, Illinois Area

Master’S Degree, Family And Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Child Life Club

Bachelor’S Degree, Psychology, 3.56

Activities and Societies: Resident Assistant, Programming Board