What is the best practice for showing a specific node within a specific page? I'm using the boostrap_carousel module which creates a custom content type for a slideshow. I'd like to have a block for one of these carousels to show on the home page. I'd also like to have a carousel embedded on most of the interior pages. What's the best practice to render a specific node that would be created using that content type within the front page and within another node?
You could try creating a new block view, which selects a specific carousel node, and then choose where you want the block to appear.

Views Slideshow does something similar, where you can create a slideshow in a block from a number of existing images.