February 1, 2024

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The 11th annual Texas Children’s Hospital Advanced Practice Provider (TCHAPP) Conference
April 11-13, 2024
Texas Children’s Hospital Pavilion for Women

8:00 am – 4:30 pm Thursday & Friday (In-Person & Virtual options)
8:00 am – 1:30 pm Saturday (Virtual only)

Registration opens February 1, 2024. Please follow this link and complete the form to register through April 5. 

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Contact Us

Please email smfergus@texaschildrens.org or appconference@texaschildrens.org if you have questions.

Agenda

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Accreditation Statement

Texas Children’s Hospital is accredited by Texas Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Texas Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 21 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Credit awarded for live session participation only; no credit awarded post live activity.

This activity has been designated by Texas Children’s Hospital for 2.0 credits of education in medical ethics and/or professional responsibility.

Texas Children’s Hospital is accredited with distinction as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This activity awards 21.0 contact hours.

2024 Abstract Information

The TCHAPP Conference Planning Committee is now accepting abstract submissions for original research and quality improvement poster presentations and educational topics for a live 50-minute oral presentation.

Call for abstracts is open through February 1, 2024.

SUBMIT – Original Research/Quality Improvement

SUBMIT – Educational Topic

About the Conference

We are excited to offer yet another wonderful experience in 2024. Models of health care delivery are transforming. The roles of advanced practice registered nurses (APRN) and physician assistants (PA) are expanding and diversifying. The number of advanced practice providers (APP) in specialty and hospital settings is increasing as health care organizations recognize the benefits APPs provide. Additionally, primary care providers are treating a growing number of children with complex medical problems. These providers will need to be equipped with both acute and primary care knowledge. This conference provides attendees with both a primary and acute care perspective of pediatric health care as well as the opportunity to collaborate and network with colleagues.

Registration Pricing

  • In-person with Virtual option and Enduring CME: $250
  • In-person with Virtual option: $200
  • Virtual and Enduring CME: $200
  • Virtual (live conference only): $150
  • Student/Retired: $100
  • TCH/BCM employee discount per registration type: 10%

Skills Pricing

  • $50 per skills session

Can’t make it to the live conference? No problem! Register with Enduring CME options to get access to recorded presentations and earn CME credit at your own pace, through October 2024. Enduring CME option must be selected at time of conference registration.

About Texas Children’s Hospital

Texas Children’s Hospital, a not-for-profit organization, is committed to creating a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research. Consistently ranked among the top children’s hospitals in the country by U.S. News and World Report, Texas Children’s has Centers of Excellence in multiple pediatric subspecialties and operates the largest primary pediatric care network in the country. Recently, Texas Children’s Hospital was recognized as a leader in LGBTQ health care equality by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. Additionally the hospital maintains nationally recognized magnet status, indicating quality patient care, nursing excellence and innovations in professional nursing practice. The team of APPs at Texas Children’s is over 500 strong and growing. APPs practice in a variety of settings across the hospital network and are deeply committed to excellence in patient care, satisfaction, quality and outcomes.

About the Texas Children’s Hospital Transformational Advanced Professional Practice Model

The Texas Children’s Hospital Transformational Advanced Professional Practice Model (TAPP) for APPs serves as a conceptual framework to guide professional development and mentorship. It is one of few evidence-based APP practice models. The Direct Comprehensive Family-Centered Care domain forms the essence of the APP role and informs and shapes the execution of the six professional practice development domains:

  1. Organizational Priorities
  2. Quality and Safety
  3. Evidence-Based Practice and Research
  4. Education
  5. Transformational Professional Practice
  6. Credentialing and Regulatory Practice

The TAPP model serves a blueprint for establishing the structures and processes to support exemplary advanced practice.

Conference objectives

  1. Explore evidence-based and innovative approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of various pediatric medical, surgical, behavioral, and mental health conditions
  2. Demonstrate enhanced skills in the treatment of a variety of acute problems in pediatric patients
  3. Discuss health promotion and public health as it relates to the adolescent and pediatric population

Target Audience

APRNs and PAs in both primary and acute specialty care pediatric settings as well as APRN and PA students pursuing careers in pediatric health care are invited to attend.

This APP conference at Texas Children’s Hospital offers a variety of breakout sessions in addition to keynote presentations, allowing registrants to customize their learning experience to their unique practice.

Statement of Ineligible Company Support: No ineligible company support was used in this activity.

We celebrate our 70th anniversary by cutting the ribbon on North Austin campus. Read more

Seventy years ago, Texas Children’s opened our doors with a three-story building in the Medical Center and welcomed our first patient, three-year-old Leigh Van Wagner. Fast forward to today, and because of our One Amazing Team’s dedication to our mission to create a healthier future for children and women, we’re now the largest pediatric hospital in the United States opening our new 365,000-square-foot hospital in North Austin.

As the first pediatric hospital in Texas, we offered a specialized experience for patients and families in the area. Our opening year we had 4,588 patient admissions; 5,492 visits to 11 clinics and performed approximately 92,000 lab tests. Due to our incredible growth over the next seven decades, today, we have nearly 4.9 million patient encounters and nearly 7,000 births take place annually.

Our employee numbers have skyrocketed with employees in our campus hospitals in Medical Center, West, The Woodlands and Austin, Texas Children’s Pediatrics, Urgent Cares, Texas Children’s Health Plan, The Center for Children and Women, Duncan NRI, Specialty Care locations and non-clinical areas. What started with 128 employees in 1954 has grown to more than 17,000 Texas Children’s employees today.

Congratulations to all our team members for 70 years of changing lives.

Happenings from 1954

While our hospital opening changed the landscape for pediatric medicine in Texas, many other amazing things happened around the world that year:

  • A group of children from Arsenal Elementary School in Pittsburgh, Penn. receives the first injections of the new polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk. Thanks to the vaccine, polio cases were reduced by 99 percent worldwide by the 21st century.
  • Dr. Joseph E. Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Mass. performs the first human kidney transplant between 23-year-old identical twins.
  • Bell Labs announces the first solar battery made from silicon. It has about 6% efficiency.
  • Brown v. Board of Education – The United States Supreme Court rules that segregated schools are unconstitutional.
  • RCA manufactures first color TV set for consumers (12½” screen at $1,000).
  • First Lady of the United States Mamie Eisenhower launches the first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, in Groton, Conn.
  • English athlete Roger Bannister becomes first to run a sub-4 minute mile, recording 3:59:4 at Iffley Road Track, Oxford.
  • New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio weds Marilyn Monroe at San Francisco City Hall.
  • New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine’s production of The Nutcracker is staged for the first time in New York, becoming an annual tradition still being performed.
  • The first issue of Sports Illustrated magazine is published.
  • Texas Instruments announces the development of the first transistor radio.
  • The first Hyatt Hotel, The Hyatt House Los Angeles, opens. It is the first hotel in the world built adjacent to an airport.
  • The first branch of Burger King opens in Miami, Fla.