Sick Girl Speaks, Inc. 

Every presentation Tiffany gives is tailored to her specific audience. To help you decide if Tiffany's presentations might be right for you, we have provided this listing of themes and topics to get you started. You may also want to look through Tiffany's schedule page to learn more about her audiences and tittles as well as her extended bio to get an idea of her background. Finally, be sure to contact us to set up a time to talk to Tiffany on the phone about your upcoming event or needs. Presentations are always evolving and, if you're looking for a patient speaker or a workshop leader/facilitator, chances are you've come to the right place.

Please note the list of common discussion points have a lot overlap for both audiences.

CV and references available upon request.

For Healthcare Professionals and Students

Most Common Audiences/Venues Include:

• Grand Rounds or Professional In-Services
• Healthcare-Related Conferences (local and national)
  
• Patient Safety Events
• Schools and Programs for Healthcare Students

Frequent Presentation Tittles Include:

• Life in the Deathbed 
• Being Patient: A Patient/Caregiver Improv
• Finding Your Voice as a Caring Professional
• Partnering with Patients: A Bed’s Eye View of Patient Safety
• Growing Up Dying: Shifting the Pediatric Patient Paradigm
• Chronic Emergency: The ED Through the Eyes of a Lifelong Patient

Common Discussion Points Include:

• Gratitude for healthcare professionals and why
  
• What Patients are Facing: The State of Patient Safety and how professionals can help
• Patients become their own Safety Officers
• The difficult patient: Who are they and what do they want?
• The Gift of Advance Care Planning
• Looking at Chronic and Terminal Illness through a Child's Eyes
• Using The Power of Illness and Dying to enhance your own life
• The Death Bed Myth
• What is an effective patient advocate?
• How you and proactive patients/family members can work well together
•  Western Medicine and Alternative Medicine: The Compliment not the Conflict
•  Death is not a failure
• More than just a body—The mind/body/soul differentiation
• The delicate nature of relationships with family and friends when facing illness
• The Opportunities of Illness
• Healing vs. Medicating

I enjoyed the presentation so much and feel so much more prepared for compassionate nursing.  I cannot thank you enough for sharing your story and personal insight with us.  Sometimes it takes hearing a story like yours to appreciate the gift of health and the importance nurses have in maintaining and promoting that.  Thank you!

--"Finding Your Voice as a Caring Professional" Audience Member

For Patients, Families and the Community

 Most Common Audience Members Include:

• Those with chronic or serious illness
• Retirement Home Residents
• People who love someone with illness
• Proactive people who want to be empowered

 Frequent Presentation Tittles Include:

• Finding Your Voice in the Healthcare Maze
• Train the Trainer: 1.5 Day Certification Program to teach Finding Your Voice in the Healthcare Maze
• Patient to Patient: Getting Real about Advance Care Planning
• Life in the Deathbed: Finding Peace no Matter What
• Patient Advocacy and You
• Living and Thriving with CF

• Patient Advocacy
• Patient Safety
• Strategic Advance Care Planning
• Understanding organ/eye/tissue donation
• Meditation and other coping techniques
• Illness and God: Are we being punished?
• The vulnerability of illness
• The importance of peace for patients and how to create it
• The Illness Identity Crisis
• Healing vs. Medicating
• Allowing help: Why it’s good for you and the ones you love
• Your unique “journaling”
• Illness and complicated family dynamics
• You are more than just a body (The mind/body/soul differentiation)

I’m truly amazed at how vital the information you shared is, and somewhat disappointed to realize that if not for this workshop I would be one of the many who are completely unaware of these tools needed to navigate the healthcare system – and many other systems for that matter.  I’ve shared what I’ve learned with a handful of relatives and close friends, and I hope to continue sharing what I have learned with those around me. 

Your story as well is what strikes me as the most intriguing part of the workshop.  That alone helped me to learn so much more, and I wouldn’t change a thing about how you presented. 

--"Train the Trainer" Participant