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Waypoint Podcast Episode 8: OKDHS Child Welfare Nursing Program offers expertise and guidance for complex medical conditions Waypoint Podcast
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In our eighth episode, we learn about the Child Welfare Nursing program through a conversation with registered nurses and foster and adoptive mothers, Susan Oliver and Shelly Lee. This program supports child welfare workers by giving insight into complex medical conditions throughout the investigatory process to help staff make the best safety decisions possible. Nurses also support both biological and foster families with training and education related to the medical needs of children, increasing family stability and better long-term outcomes for the children involved.
Susan Oliver is a Registered Nurse and mother to eight children. She has worked for OKDHS for the last eleven years, and, since the recording of this podcast, was named the Nursing Programs Administrator. While working for OKDHS, Susan worked on a collaborative project with Johns Hopkins University that integrated trauma-informed practices into outpatient medical clinics. In her spare time, Susan volunteers at Special Care, a child care program that serves children who are medically-fragile or who have disabilities.
Shelly Lee is a Health Care Management Nurse III for Child Welfare Services, and assisted in developing the very program we’re discussing today, which integrated Registered Nurses into Child Welfare. She was the first nurse hired as part of the program. She has been a nurse for 22 years and has six children with her husband of 21 years. Her family began fostering through a kinship placement in 2012, and quickly found that this was their calling.
We hope you’ll continue to join us on this podcast where we’ll explore topics that affect and uplift Oklahomans. Don't forget to like this episode and subscribe, so you'll know when each new episode drops! To learn more about how you can support your community through fostering, visit OKFosters.org.
In our eighth episode, we learn about the Child Welfare Nursing program through a conversation with registered nurses and foster and adoptive mothers, Susan Oliver and Shelly Lee. This program supports child welfare workers by giving insight into complex medical conditions throughout the investigatory process to help staff make the best safety decisions possible. Nurses also support both biological and foster families with training and education related to the medical needs of children, increasing family stability and better long-term outcomes for the children involved.
Susan Oliver is a Registered Nurse and mother to eight children. She has worked for OKDHS for the last eleven years, and, since the recording of this podcast, was named the Nursing Programs Administrator. While working for OKDHS, Susan worked on a collaborative project with Johns Hopkins University that integrated trauma-informed practices into outpatient medical clinics. In her spare time, Susan volunteers at Special Care, a child care program that serves children who are medically-fragile or who have disabilities.
Shelly Lee is a Health Care Management Nurse III for Child Welfare Services, and assisted in developing the very program we’re discussing today, which integrated Registered Nurses into Child Welfare. She was the first nurse hired as part of the program. She has been a nurse for 22 years and has six children with her husband of 21 years. Her family began fostering through a kinship placement in 2012, and quickly found that this was their calling.
We hope you’ll continue to join us on this podcast where we’ll explore topics that affect and uplift Oklahomans. Don't forget to like this episode and subscribe, so you'll know when each new episode drops! To learn more about how you can support your community through fostering, visit OKFosters.org.
45 min