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high job satisfaction. Some of the challenges of being a nurse practitioner is a lengthy schooling process, challenging and physically demanding work schedule and legal responsibilities for diagnosis decisions. The healthcare workforce is workspace where it is needed to work together as one due to all the aspects that could be put into one patient and to meet the challenges given. There are problems which healthcare is currently dealing with such as the right clinical experiences, right time of efficiencies and the funding. There is needed support to help with the development and how to keep the PNP programs continuing. The clinicals need to be done at different settings like rural and low-income areas to increase to experience of the students and what they would have to deal with. There also needs a to be a promotion of these for the immersion and post-graduate experiences. Due to the health care reform, there is expected to be a larger increase in patients seeking care due to the advance of health insurance coverages. Some children who are in need of care cannot receive it to do the demand of healthcare is increasing as a whole. This is more common in low income and rural areas.
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state has different guidelines for practice and prescription abilities. Pediatric nurse practitioners are capable of performing many tasks other pediatricians and physicians perform. These tasks include developmental screenings, physical assessments (vision, hearing and dental), school and sport physicals, vaccines and diagnosing common childhood illnesses such as allergies, ear infections and skin conditions. PNPs also diagnose chronic diseases like asthma and diabetes, provide advice on common health concerns like obesity, and treat unintentional and sports injuries. Nurse practitions are also able to order diagnostic tests and perform small procedures, including but not limited to suturing, starting IVs, administering medications and wound care. Some of these illnesses are still newer to the childcare environment. Having certain childhood illnesses can be extreme and effect later life or even the patient's daily life. PNPs are shown to give high quality care to their patients and is a vital role in dealing with the chronic and critical health conditions of their patients.
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communication skills will help them work with multiple different people per every patient seen. Good communication plays a large part in correctly diagnosing and treating patients. Pediatric nurse practitioners must also have compassion, empathy and patience for their patients and the patients family members. Pediatric nurse practitioners or pediatricians are often the first healthcare professional that children see, having a good or bad experience plays a major role in that patients viewpoint of healthcare workers for the rest of their lives, so whether a pediatric nurse practitioner has these qualities or not, it can change patients lives for years to come.
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surgery centers, hospitals or other pediatricians offices. PNPs also regularly work in pediatric intensive/ critical care units, emergency departments and urgent care facilities. The states with a higher concentration of PNPs is mainly in the
Northeast and in the Midwest. The state with a higher concentration includes states such as West Virginia, Idaho, New Mexico, and many others. These states also have the most children living in the states with more than 3,000 per physician.
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Nurse practitioners have a high average salary. Although salary can vary widely depending on location and job site, a nurse practitioners average salary is $ 121,659 annually. Salary can also vary depending on specialty, based on the continued education required in order to accomplish that specialty.
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Pediatric nurse practitioners deliver care across the country to children aging from newborn to 21. Most PNPs practice on all pediatric ages but some specialize in specific age groups such as adolescents or neonatal. Nurse practitioners are able to prescribe medications in all 50 states however, each
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and chronic conditions. This care is provided to support optimal health of children within the context of their family, community, and environmental setting. In order to be a pediatric nurse practitioner one must be compassionate, resourceful, good at communicating and have good attention to detail.
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Pediatric nurse practitioners are among the highest paid in the United States with an average annual salary at $ 128,057. The employment of nurse practitioners is expected to grow 45% over the next 10 years, which is much faster than the average for most other jobs.
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