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Parent-Child Nurse Specialist - Career Profile |
Career OverviewSupport for parents and children during transitional phases and during illness is key to fostering healthy families. This is the principle of parent-child nursing.
Clinical Nurse Specialists who work as parent-child specialists deal provide acute care and ambulatory care to parents and children; they also work to educate and support families to facilitate the development of healthy and productive relationships between parents and children.
To help reduce stress in parent-child relations, Parent-Child Nurse Specialists are trained to give primary care to parents and children, to offer education to parents about caring for their children, and to offer counseling to both parents and children in the event of conflicts.
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Career RequirementsParent-Child Nurse Specialists are required to train as Clinical Nursing Specialists prior to completing any advanced training in the field. They are required to have some advanced training in the nursing field. Most Clinical Nursing Specialists have advanced degrees. Approximately 93% of all CNSs have a Master's Degree or equivalent graduate certificate to compliment their training as an RN.
Parent-Child Nurse Specialists are required to have an active RN license and typically have a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing to have obtained this qualification.
Specialist training in parent-child care is a requirement for this profession, typically met by the practical experience of each candidate. Experience is focused developing healthy relationships between parents and their children, and addressing both acute and chronic health issues that may impact that relationship.
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Job OutlookAlthough Parent-Child Nurse Specialists have multiple roles, they offer a unique range of skills to benefit parent-child relations. Their role as primary care givers, with the expertise necessary to offer diagnosis and administer treatment in a variety of cases, is invaluable to the health care system in this context as it reduces the need for intervention by physicians in many cases.
On the other hand, their specialist training to operate as counselors, educators, and policy-makers to facilitate better relationships between parents and children offer such a range of benefits, they are likely to somewhat offset the roles of social workers and child psychiatrists.
Employment prospects in parent-child care are certainly positive and the field may become increasingly dynamic over the next ten years.
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Career TrackSee Clinical Nurse Specialist
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CompensationSee Clinical Nurse Specialist
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