Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

The Life of Becoming a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner A Pediatric Nurse Practitioner is a challenging but extremely rewarding career, not only do they care for infants but also care for children and young adults. They play a special role in each one of the children's life from a young age. A Pediatric Nurse Practitioner is known as a graduate level nursing education, clinical training then Master’s graduate, which they are able to care for an age range of newborn to twenty one years of age. The first thing that someone needs to do to become a Pediatric Nurse is to go to college and get their degree. Once they do that then they are able to go to a specialized program that takes around two years to get through. Then they are a Nurse Practitioner, …show more content…
This is what makes a Pediatric Nurse so important. They are with the children from such a young age all the way through their childhood and young adult life. Once the child is ready to be off on their own they have to say goodbye to a person that has possibly cared and helped them since they were a baby. A primary care settings for a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner is physician offices, school health department, ambulatory, outpatient clinics, surgical centers, and health departments. The acute settings for the nurse is intensive care, intermediate care units, pediatric emergency room, same day surgery centers, and pediatric rehabilitation facilities. Primary care units have the additional knowledge and skill to diagnose and treat illnesses, also they manage ongoing care of children with chronic conditions. Managing for the child’s on-going health maintenance needs includes general examinations, developmental assessment, anticipatory guidance. Acute care units manage the medical, surgical, and nursing care for children during hospitalization in acute or intensive care …show more content…
For a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner there is a list for the cons and a list for the pros as in any other job. The pros consist of excellent job growth potential, high salaries, ability to work independently, ability to work in a variety of settings, healthcare insurance benefits for workers family, and also being able to consistently provide healthcare to wonderful patients. Now the list of the cons would have to consist of the length of education required, continuing education and receiving various licenses, exposure of hazardous diseases, shiftwork may be required depending on job, and also the stressful work environments. For the occupation of Pediatric Nurse Practitioner the pros outweigh the cons not only because of the general reason, but also because the cons do not amount to much. The occupation has such positivity that even the cons are not bad, healthcare is a great environment to work