Neonatal nurse practitioner vs neonatologist

Differences between neonatal nurse practitioner and neonatologist duties and responsibilities

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.

Neonatologist example responsibilities.

• Obtain medical history and perform physical examinations of patients and initiate treatment, investigations and follow up treatment including counseling.
• Assist with PICU patients as needed.
• Conduct medical examinations, diagnose conditions, and perform treatments on respiratory and infectious disease patients.
• Assist in major elective and emergency surgeries such as appendectomies, exploratory laparotomy, thyroid surgery, hysterectomy and cesarean operations.
• Develop CPOE order sets for the NICU and assisting in pediatric pharmacological order sets.