Nursing Roles Graphic Organizer (ANSWERED)

– Advocating for patients, their families and other nurses (Matsumori, 2020). It is every nurse duty to advocate for their patients. Through their capabilities, a pediatric CNS advocates for their patients by requesting for help with resources they cannot provide to their patients themselves.

– Mentorship to other nurses and professionals for the delivery of equitable and safe care. Influencing other nurses through mentorship contributes to effective, safe, and equitable care to the patients as clients.

– Helping patients and their families address issues in end-of-life with dignity and respect.

– The Nurse has a deep understanding of the parents because they have to interact with their patients’ parents to get information about their patients (National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists (2004). Normally, the patients are children, who under the law have their parents as their representatives.

– The nurse is primarily committed to the patients, their families, and their caretakers. As a general rule, healthcare should be patient-centered. Therefore, FNPs should show commitment to providing care to their patient populations as part of the ethical codes.

– Advocates, promotes, and protects the patients’ rights, health and safety.

– Maintain integrity and competence in their role as FNPs.

– Nurse collaborates with other professionals to protect the health and rights of their patients. Collaboration is responsible for improvement of the general patient outcomes. Moreover, collaboration reduces medical errors and other medical problems that arise from non-collaborative behavior.

– After licensure as an RN, one must acquire accredited education through accredited programs from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education or the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing. It case, the accredited program must be a Master’s, Postgraduate, or doctoral program.

– The nurse must have completed 500 faculty-supervised clinical hours related to the CNS role and population (children and their parents) they will serve.

– The nurse should earn CNS certification by taking a pediatrics exams administered by the ANCC.

– The student should take and pass the NCLEX-RN to become a licensed Registered Nurse (RN).

– After the first BSc and licensure as an RN, the nurse should pursue a Master’s degree (MSN) specifically designed for a FNP taking a period of 1-3 years to complete.

– Must have experience as an RN.

– The Nurse should possess knowledge on specialized equipment like nebulizers etc.

– Both require APRN licensure.

– Further education in pediatric CNS varies from FNP as both go on to study their specialties and get certified on the same.

– Pediatric CNS and FNP take different certifications and examinations to be fully certified. (Accreditation varies for the two APRN roles.)

– They both require recertification after five years because they are advanced practice nurses.

– A pediatric CNS often seeks certification in pediatrics.

-Provides a reliable care process to the team involved in care of pediatric patients.

– Practices transparency in the processes and procedures

– Constantly seeking improvement and measurement of progress in providing quality care

– Ready and continuously learning

– Practices teamwork and communicates properly to other healthcare practitioners within the organization. At the same time, communicates effectively with the parents of their children.

– Negotiates with the parents on their care of their children.

– Practices accountability in relevant matters within pediatric care.

– Is a chronic care coordinator when children are involved.

– Inspires other nursing professionals and the healthcare team to provide the highest quality of care.

– Monitors emerging trends in the healthcare scene and implements them into the care process through consultation and collaboration with the rest of the healthcare team.

– Envisions and integrate improvement of current practice and guide other nursing professionals to embrace them.

– Is a team player in patient care

– Communicates with other nursing professionals and patients to improve the overall health outcomes.

– Understands their patients and participates in decision-making with the patients by advising on the best option among a list.

– Practices transparency in the care process

– Both practice transparency to their respective patients and caregivers.

– Pediatric CNS have to showcase their leadership skills when negotiating with their patients’ parents while FNPs deal with patients directly unless when required to communicate to their caregivers and families.

– Both are leaders in their respective fields with a team working under them.

– Helping their patients change their behaviors, i.e., if a parent’s feeding habits are affecting their child, the pediatric CNS can advise against these sets of behaviors for better outcomes in their patients.

– Receiving support from the institutions they work with/for with regard to a service they cannot provide themselves to avail care to their patients.

– Their clients are connected to community programs. Therefore, pediatric CNS contribute to public health by caring for part of the community’s population (children).

– Support community-clinical linkages to advise on individual health like dietary and healthy behaviors to reduce common non-communicable diseases like obesity and diabetes.

– They educate various groups about self-care, e.g., advising and educating on falls, especially among the elderly population. The resources on this education are provided by the National Council for Aging, one of the public health networks.

– Both have a major goal of improving public health in their respective patient population. In other words, both CNS and FNP has a similar perspective on public health despite the difference in their patient population.

The P- CNS can also supervise other nurses, offer mentorship, and work with the facility’s management.

However, FNPs can choose where to work in different settings because they receive flexible training. They can be in hospital emergency rooms, outpatient surgery centers, or primary care clinics. Still, most FNPS prefer working with the doctors and in clinics.

A description of FNP roles includes diagnosing, monitoring, and treating patients of all ages and various characteristics.

Pediatric CNS works with children, adolescents, and infants while FNP works with all groups regardless of ages, shapes and sizes.

They have understanding of genetics through proper training to help patients with genetic predisposition understand the risk and seek care or immediate action.

As the heads of pediatric clinics, pediatric CNS use simulations to prioritize their patients

According to Koukourikos et al. (2021), simulations are used in clinical care for supervision of patient care and training of student nurses under the FNP.

– The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCLEX)- the compulsory examinations for one to become an RN

– American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)- essentials of Masters Education for Advanced Practice

– American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).

– American Nurses Credentialing Center

– NCLEX

– Both are regulated depending on the state they work in and the population they work with.