Nursing
Leadership Enhancement for Culturally Competent Care:
Children and Adolescents with Special Health Care Needs, Families and Communities
Children and Adolescents with Special Health Care Needs, Families and Communities
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Nursing
Leadership Enhancement for Culturally Competent Care:
Children and Adolescents with Special Health Care Needs, Families and Communities |
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Purpose:The Nursing Leadership enhancement for Culturally Competent Care: Children and Adolescents with Special (CSH) Health Care Needs, Families and Communitites training grant prepares graduate level nurses to assure the health of children and adolescents through family-centered, culturally competent services, programs and policies. Children with special needs are those who have or are at increased risk for chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional conditions and who also require health and related services that extend beyond in type and amount required by children generally. Conditions of risk may be diagnosed disorders, events that occur during prenatal, perinatal or neonatal periods, and environmental conditions, such as poverty and family stress.
Eligibility:Eligible participants for the CSH grant are students who focus their graduate studies on the health of children and adolescents with special health care needs while completing one of the following focal areas of study at the University of Washington School of Nursing:
Program Credits and Length of Program:Participation in
the CSH training grant will not add credits nor length to any of the
curricula of the four participating nursing graduate focal areas. Scholarship Funds Available:Students participating in the CSH training grant may be eligible for tuition scholarship. Leadership Training Opportunities:Leadership is emphasized in the CSH training grant in the following service categories:
Students develop leadership knowledge and skills in their graduate program of study through:
Students are required
to attend a minimum of two interdisciplinary leadership seminars sponsored
by a consortium of five interdisciplinary Maternal and Child Health Bureau
training grants at the University of Washington. CSH students meet as
a group once per quarter with CSH faculty to discuss experiences and plan
for leadership opportunities. Future Employment and Professional Activities:The array of activities provide opportunities to develop leadership knowledge and skills that have been identified as critical to the nursing profession for the care of children in the 21st century.Students describe accomplishments in a Leadership Portfolio developed throughout their programs. The Leadership Portfolio will help to create a professional resume for employment and participation in professional organizations. Examples of Ways to Fulfill Grant ActivitiesPauline is in the
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner focal area and is interested in pediatric
asthma. She writes a paper on the physiology of asthma and ways to explain
it to school-aged children for a clinical seminar. She provides primary
care for children with asthma at a local hospital for a clinical practicum.
Susan reviews national guidelines on pediatric asthma management for a
health service class. She develops a family-centered program for pediatric
asthma management for her master's scholarly project. Joannie is in the
Ph.D. Nursing Science Program and is interested in American Indian children
on reservations. She focuses her course work on the mental health of American
Indian children. Joannie conducts her dissertation on alcohol use in middle
school American Indian children within the context of family and community
responses. She evaluates her findings to inform policy and practice guidelines
by working with the tribal council. |
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