CoxHealth's Rana Post to Visit With Students About Career as a Child Life Specialist

Students in human development and family sciences, and other disciplines, will learn about careers in child life areas.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Rana Post, a child life specialist at CoxHealth in Missouri, will be on campus to speak with students interested in careers in child life on Monday.

Post is speaking from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Maudine Sanders Commons (rooms 108 and 109) in the Human Environmental Sciences Building. Her informal presentation, which is open to all students, faculty and staff, is "Navigating a Career as a Child Life Specialist."

Post is a human development and family sciences adjunct instructor in the School of Human Environmental Sciences and also offers a Child Life 101 course at CoxHealth for anyone interested in child life careers.

"By assisting children and their families in understanding hospitalization, diagnoses and procedures, child life helps to empower children in the health care environment," said Post on the CoxHealth website. "As we look toward the future and the ever-evolving needs of pediatric patients and their families, child life will continue to be an essential part of the health care experience by providing for children's psychosocial needs and facilitating play during hospitalization."

CoxHealth is a not-for-profit health care system with two medical centers, three hospitals, eight emergency and urgent care centers, six centers and eight clinics throughout Missouri.

About the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences: Bumpers College provides life-changing opportunities to position and prepare graduates who will be leaders in the businesses associated with foods, family, the environment, agriculture, sustainability and human quality of life; and who will be first-choice candidates of employers looking for leaders, innovators, policy makers and entrepreneurs. The college is named for Dale Bumpers, former Arkansas governor and longtime U.S. senator who made the state prominent in national and international agriculture.

About the University of Arkansas: The University of Arkansas provides an internationally competitive education for undergraduate and graduate students in more than 200 academic programs. The university contributes new knowledge, economic development, basic and applied research, and creative activity while also providing service to academic and professional disciplines. The Carnegie Foundation classifies the University of Arkansas among only 2 percent of universities in America that have the highest level of research activity. U.S. News & World Report ranks the University of Arkansas among its top American public research universities. Founded in 1871, the University of Arkansas comprises 10 colleges and schools and maintains a low student-to-faculty ratio that promotes personal attention and close mentoring.