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Dimensions of the Transition Service Coordinator Role
Author(s) -
Betz Cecily L.,
Redcay Gay
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal for specialists in pediatric nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.499
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1744-6155
pISSN - 1539-0136
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6155.2005.00010.x
Subject(s) - specialty , nursing , health care , function (biology) , service (business) , clinical practice , medical education , work (physics) , medicine , psychology , family medicine , business , political science , mechanical engineering , marketing , evolutionary biology , law , biology , engineering
ISSUES AND PURPOSE. This article describes the development and implementation of an innovative advanced practice role, as a transition service coordinator for nurses who work with adolescents with special healthcare needs. Transition services for adolescents with special healthcare needs is an area of growing clinical need requiring that all healthcare professionals, including advanced practice nurses develop new clinical knowledge and skills to practice effectively.CONCLUSION. This emerging specialty area will require advanced practice nurses to provide direct services blending both pediatric and adult healthcare needs and to function in advanced practice roles such as case managers who can ensure the coordination of services between these two very different systems of care while promoting the youth's acquisition of goals for adulthood. This nursing role was first created to provide and coordinate transition services to youth seen in a piloted clinic titled Creating Healthy Futures.PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS. This article describes the various components of this nursing role that incorporated the advanced practice dimensions of clinical expert, consultant, change agent, leader, researcher, and educator that can be replicated in other clinical settings.