Certified nurse practitioner vs neonatal nurse practitioner

Differences between certified nurse practitioner and neonatal nurse practitioner duties and responsibilities

Certified nurse practitioner example responsibilities.

• Manage patients with multiple complex medical conditions while collaborating with multiple specialties and other members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Provide total care of patients recovering from amputations, cerebral vascular accidents, spinal cord injury/surgery and joint replacements.
• Position require assessment, diagnosis, work-up and interpretation of diagnostics, in addition to effectively communicating with all physicians.
• Perform history and physical exam upon admission including dictation of findingsfollow by discharge summaries.

Neonatal nurse practitioner example responsibilities.

• Manage appropriate changes to individualize care plan to ensure cost and time efficacy in an outpatient physical medicine and rehabilitation office.
• Provide management for critically ill infants and resuscitation for high-risk newborns in the delivery room in collaboration with attending physician
• Educate patients' families about self-management of acute or chronic illnesses, tailoring instructions to infants' individual circumstances.
• Participate in education of pediatric residents in learning newborn resuscitation and outreach education of community/referral hospitals regarding newborn care and stabilization.
• Prescribe age-specific physical therapy and rehabilitation.
• Prescribe age-specific physical therapy and rehabilitation.