“Pediatric Nurse Practitioner.” DiscoverNursing.com | Campaign for Nursing‚ www.discovernursing.com/specialty/pediatric-nurse-practitioner. This article explains the obligations and schooling required to become a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP). As a PNP you will be required to diagnose illnesses‚ prescribe medication and therapy‚ conduct routine check-ups‚ order patient lab tests‚ and counsel patients and family members. Pediatric Nurse Practitioners work with patients from infancy to young
Premium Medicine Nursing Physician
statement???????????? You might wonder what a pediatric nurse is well‚ it is a certified nurse that deals with only children. There use to be just be regular nurses that had no certification at all. This changed when the first children’s hospital in Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania was built in 1855. After the first children’s hospital was built many more began to pop up everywhere in the United States. For‚ many years in the children’s hospitals there was just nurses with no certification on children. This
Premium
Nursing as quoted by the American Nurses Association‚ “Nursing is the protection‚ promotion‚ and optimization of health and abilities; prevention of illness and injury; alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human responses; and advocacy in health care for individuals‚ families‚ communities‚ and populations. Nursing has all types of fields that you can go venture off into. I wanted to look at registered nurses compared to licensed nurses. I wanted to list the differences
Premium Nursing Health Health care
The Caring Nurse: ADN versus BSN The Caring Nurse: ADN versus BSN Caring is the heart of nursing. Most nurses have a quality about them that harbors caring. Caring is defined by Merriam-Webster dictionary as‚ “effort made to do something correctly‚ safely‚ or without causing damage‚” or “things that are done to keep someone healthy‚ safe‚ etc.” Nurses‚ whether they are an associate degree educated or baccalaureate educated‚ want to do a good job. They don’t come to work to intentionally
Premium Nursing Patient Nurse
immediate and/or special care nursery. In level 2 care unit neonatal nurses will be caring for premature or ill newborns. These newborns require special feedings‚ oxygen masks‚ and intravenous fluids or medications. When newborns are in this care unit they will need time to grow and mature before being released and sent home with your parents. Level 3 refers to the neonatal intensive care unit‚ also known as the NICU. Level 3 neonatal nurse will be taking care of very sick‚ small or premature infants.
Premium Infant Pediatrics Childbirth
supposed to be VAST and ready to go‚ and I was still AMBIVALENT on what I wanted “in the real world” as I heard in the many EXPOUNDING lectures. It was not until the summer of my senior year that God had finally put it in my heart to become a Pediatric Nurse Advisor; to become this person that can ASSUAGE and ABATE people‚ to become the
Premium
the population ages‚ so does the number of chronic illness and the need for specialized end-of-life care. With the current shortage of trained hospice care providers‚ the push for utilization of nurse practitioners in this area of medicine is being looked at as a possible solution. Efficacy of a nurse practitioner led model of care has been demonstrated in the limited amount of studies done in recent years and shows promise of a solution to the shortage. The hospice model of care focuses on improving
Premium Nursing Patient Health care
Differences in competences between associate degree prepared nurse versus the baccalaureate prepared nurse. Maureen N Iwuoha Grand Canyon University: September 5‚ 2014 Differences in competences between associate degree prepared nurse versus baccalaureate prepared nurse. Competency is the measured degree of performance that integrates skills‚ ability‚ judgment and knowledge as defined by the American nurses association‚ in other words competency is the ability of an individual
Premium Nursing Skill Health care
The issue of new graduate nurse retention remains a challenge in many healthcare facilities. More than 50% of new graduate nurses leave their first employment in less than a year (North‚ Johnson‚ Knotts & Whelan 2006). Because new recruits are often faced with a variety of stressors in their beginning practice it is clear that a structured mentoring program could be of immense value. Such a program would provide technical and emotional support to nurses and so ease their transition into the
Premium Nursing Nurse Education
and effective patient care has been to mandate nurse staffing ratios. In 1999 California became the first state to mandate minimum nurse-to-patient ratios in hospitals. California is not the only state to enact minimum nurse staffing ratios for hospitals‚ over the past four years at least eighteen other states have considered legislation regarding nurse staffing in hospitals. Policymakers are forced to consider alternatives to nurses ratios due to nurse shortages. Whether minimum staffing ratios will
Premium Nursing Health care Hospital