Supporting Parents of Children with Special Healthcare Needs
Supporting Parents of Children with Special Healthcare Needs is organized by Nurse.com - OnCourse Learning Corporation.
Course Originally Released on: 04/14/2023
Date of Most Recent Review: 4/14/2023
Course Termination/ Update Date: 12/31/2026
Description:
Approximately 20% of all children in the U.S. have a qualifying condition classified as a special healthcare need (Young & Crankshaw, 2021). The term “special healthcare needs” is often interchanged with the term “disabilities.” This course will interchange the terms. Caring for a child with special healthcare needs is a full-time job for the parents and continues throughout the child’s life. Nurses and social workers are in a unique position to facilitate family coping, navigating complex medical care access and barriers, and being the conduit between the professional healthcare and outside community.
Goal and Learning Outcomes:
The goal of this course it to educate nurses and social workers on how to recognize common parental challenges and how to better support parents of children with special healthcare needs.
After taking this course, you should be able to:
• Review the definitions and types of special healthcare needs impacting children.
• Recall some parental challenges while caring for children with special healthcare needs.
• Identify some ways to support parents of children with special healthcare needs.