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Helping educators make a CareFull impact in the lives of students experiencing medical stress.
🎓 PhD Researcher
🏥 Medical Mum
👩‍🏫 Registered Teacher

30/05/2025

That’s a wrap! 🥳

Round 2 of The Care-Full Educator professional learning has officially closed. This has provided us enough data to complete the study (Wohoo).

We are exploring the best way to deliver story-based trauma learning with teachers and will have a refined version for release later this year.

Across two main cycles, we have explored:
-> online, asynchronous, episodic-periodic
-> online, synchronous, episodic-webinar
-> online, asynchronous, episodic-open

Thank you to everyone who has participated in these cycles and to all those who shared my posts to help with the recruitment.

10/05/2025

Thanks to all those who joined my Webinar today to learn about PMTS and how it shows up in the classroom.

Your commitment to be part of today means a lot to me and your insights in the activity logs will be so valuable for future teachers.

Special thanks to my cohost and colleague, Anna from Live in Hope who kept the gears running in the background. Grateful for your friendship and technical skills 😉.

05/05/2025

It’s Webinar week!

If you signed up to be part of the webinar, please RSVP to the calendar invite.

Looking forward to seeing you online this Saturday at 9am. I’ll have my coffee ready!

01/05/2025

Anyone else feel like they’re chasing their tail in these short weeks??

It’s partly why we have given you an option for how you can participate in this course: self-paced over three weeks, or as a group in a webinar. Here’s the details:

-> Self-paced: you will have received an email today with the link and passwords to the course. If you have any issues, feel free to email me. Otherwise, enjoy!

-> Webinar: I’ll see you online next Saturday at 9am. Please ensure Zoom works on your device and accept my Zoom invitation. You’ll receive access to the website after the webinar.

Thank you, Care-Full Educators, for investing time in this and in yourself. You are making a difference in the lives on students (and their families!) who are experiencing medical stress.

24/04/2025

⏰Countdown⏰

Courses open soon! Because life is busy, there are two options for engaging with The Care-Full Educator course:

👉🏻Independent and self-paced over two weeks (1 - 14 May)
👉🏻In a webinar with Karlie as a host (10 May, 9am - 12pm).

No matter which option you’re in, the website has officially opened and participants can now access it. Use the password in your welcome email and make sure you start the ‘Before you Begin’ page before, well, you begin 😉

If you missed out, take 2 minutes to fill in the survey in my bio and I’ll send you the details.

18/04/2025

Check your inbox, Care-Full Educators 📩

You’ve just received access to The Care-Full Educator: a story-based professional learning about medical stress. There’s a few important details in the email too!

If you signed up and haven’t received the link, please check your junk folder or email me directly via karlie.ross@hdr.qut.edu.au

Still wanting to sign up? There’s time! Simply follow the link in my bio and I’ll send you the details.

10/04/2025

Cherry toothpaste and why it’s a trigger..

I was able to share about this and many other stories today with the Queensland Children’s Hospital allied health oncology team. Sharing lived experience in the aftermath of childhood cancer (along with PhD research) can, I hope, improve outcomes for young people and their families.

My FREE professional learning is still open. Sign up using the links in the bio and I’ll share these stories and more on 10 May during a live webinar.

19/03/2025

I’d love to see a few more teachers join my FREE session on 10 May 2025, 9am -12pm (including scheduled breaks because ).

This webinar helps teachers grow their understanding about paediatric medical traumatic stress through story-based learning. I am the facilitator; a registered teacher, researcher and medical mum.

Tag a Queensland teacher below and get them onboard with this opportunity. They won’t regret it.

Register via the link in my bio.

18/03/2025

Leaning into some great opportunities lately in the Podcast space.

First with The Long Road Podcast (out now - link below) and, today I recorded with Anna from Live in Hope. So far I’ve learnt that I love to talk but I hope you all get something out of them.

06/03/2025

Although Queenslanders have a bit going on at the moment , there’s also only one more day left to register for this FREE professional learning experience.

-> Grow your understanding of Paediatric Medical Traumatic Stress
-> Participate totally online with choice of self-paced or webinar (10 May, 2025)
-> Engage with unique storytelling learning
-> Contribute to the research on medical stress

Sign up before 7 March 2025. This is the final round of intake for this professional learning.

24/02/2025

What better way to spend a birthday than with the doctors and nurses of the Queensland Paediatric Palliative Care, Haematology & Oncology Network (QPPHON).

Today, I shared about acclimatisation in regional hospitals - that young people and their families will need time to adjust from the conditions of their state treating hospitals and they will often come to these new settings with a level of medical stress.

Acclimatisation takes time but some simple strategies help this adjustment take place. Thanks for having me, QPPHON.

14/05/2024

Earlier this month, Hope Horizons Inc invited me to share about the impact of medical stress on children and their family members.

Referring to my own story and PhD research, I shared about:
🦋 the signs and symptoms of medical stress
🦋 how these can show up at home and in school
🦋 and how important trauma-informed practices are in the recovery process.

These two shots reflect the serious yet hopeful message shared and the mix of
emotions felt in the room.

Thankfully, this is just the start of a meaningful partnership between Hope Horizons and The CareFull Educator.

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Toowoomba, QLD

Website

https://qsurvey.qut.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_9zSbAmLrPiwLBdQ

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