Pediatric Nursing
Being a Pediatric Nurse, is liking being a parent for both the patient and their guardian. A Pediatric Nurse works with infants, children, and adolescents. The role these nurses take on is a bit different than what other types of nurses take. Pediatric Nurses have to be capable of taking care of both a child and the concerning guardians. Being interested in the medical side of being a nurse is for the most part the main key. They have to know how to talk to children in a form to where they understand. Lastly just being a kid person, you must be someone who loves children and gets along with them very well.
There are such things as PNP’s and PICU. A PNP, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, is a more specific term for someone who works with patients from infancy to young adulthood, diagnosing illness, and conducting exams. A PICU, Pediatric Intensive care Unit, this is a specific unit for children only. In these care place you may work in trauma room with children who have come in from an accident, or you may work in rooms of children coming in with a long term illness.
Nurses get paid a great amount of money per year. In the United States the average salary a year is $65,000. There is also different types of pediatric job offers. Depending on your knowledge, schooling, and occupation you could make up to $89,000 per year as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. Just remember in the end of the day, it is about the children who are in need of your help.
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