Nurse Support Verses Personal Relationship Support
About twenty percent of children in the United States have a mental illness. Still, not all of them get the appropriate treatment because of financial and other barriers (Williams et al., 2022). Therefore, this paper aims to compare the effectiveness of social support provided by professional nurses and the one provided by personal relationships and social networks for parents with children with mental health issues.
Although both social support, that is, the one provided by professional nurses and that provided by social networks and personal relationships, tend to work for patients with children with mental health illnesses, personal relationships and social network support tend to be more effective compared to the nurse-provided support (Williams et al., 2022). A professional nurse may have many patients who need sympathy, love, and care; hence, they have less time to provide enough support to parents with children with mental health issues. For instance, a nurse may be allocated about ten patients to attend to; hence, they will allocate little time to talk to parents with the burden of mentally ill children. Relationship and social network support, on the other hand, is very effective for parents with children having mental health problems because the support involves people who have a close relationship with the parents of the patients; hence they tend to have more time to provide both emotional, financial and mental support compared to professional nurses. In addition, nurses only provide support to parents of mentally ill children expecting to be paid for their work, meaning that if a parent cannot pay for the services, they can end up getting little or no support (Nicholson & Valentine, 2018). This is contrary to personal relationships and social network support since the people involved in the support expect nothing in return; instead, they give their services one-heartedly.
In conclusion, parents with children having mental health illnesses constantly need mental, emotional, and financial support since they often face depression and anxiety. Personal relationships and social network support are, therefore, more practical to parents with children with mental illness since they expect no payment and have more time with such parents than professional nurses who have to attend to many patients.
References
Williams, V. N., Lopez, C. C., Tung, G. J., Olds, D. L., & Allison, M. A. (2022). A case study of care coordination between primary care providers and nurse home visitors to serve young families experiencing adversity in the Northwestern United States. Health & Social Care in the Community, 30(4), 1400-1411.
Nicholson, J., & Valentine, A. (2018). Defining “peerness”: Developing peer support for parents with mental illnesses. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 41(2), 157.
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Question 
Analyze the potential effectiveness resulting from professional or nurse-provided social
Nurse Support Verses Personal Relationship Support
support versus enhancement of social support provided by personal relationships and social networks for parents of children with chronic mental illness.