Neonatal nurse practitioner vs nurse clinician

Differences between neonatal nurse practitioner and nurse clinician 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.

Nurse clinician example responsibilities.

• Manage patient pain relief and sedation by providing pharmacological and non-pharmacological intervention, monitor patient response and record care plans accordingly.
• Provide high level nursing care for ER step down and ICU patients prior to transfer to critical care units.
• Instruct ACLS and BLS classes.
• Specialize care for telemetry and orthopedic patients.
• Provide specialized nursing care to ICU medical cardiac patient populations.
• Provide education regarding care of surgical patients as part of orientation to orienting telemetry nurses.
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