Grace Mcbrien Email & Phone Number

Fort Washington, Pa, Us

• Advanced Child Life Specialist in Outpatient Endocrinology and Plastic Surgery (2019- Present)• Advanced Child Life Specialist in Radiation Oncology in the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine (2016-2019)• Provide preparation, procedural support, and diagnosis education to enhance understanding/coping and reduceanxiety• Provide emotional support and opportunities for expression through therapeutic activities/play/medical play/legacybuilding projects to patients and families on a long term outpatient basis• Participate in interdisciplinary team rounds• Create self-expression and identity building workshop for teenage patients undergoing radiation treatment• Mentor and coach Child Life students

• Provided psychosocial support to patients and families in the Emergency Department of a Level 1 Trauma Center• Designed and implement bereavement training for Emergency Department nursing staff• Provided developmentally appropriate support and continually assess psychosocial needsthroughout patients’ hospitalization in the Emergency Department and ICU• Performed child life interventions such as medical play, therapeutic and coping exercises, pre-procedural preparation, procedural support, diagnosis education and bereavement support independently