Nurse practitioner vs neonatal nurse practitioner

Differences between nurse practitioner and neonatal nurse practitioner duties and responsibilities

Nurse practitioner example responsibilities.

• Manage care of chronic pediatric patients in PICU.
• Assess, diagnose and medically manage patients with various GI diseases and dysfunctions
• Manage medical illnesses including diabetes, hypertension, thyroid conditions and asthma and other medical conditions.
• Manage pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment of diabetes and provide prescriptions and education before discharge from the hospital.
• Manage appropriate changes to individualize care plan to ensure cost and time efficacy in an outpatient physical medicine and rehabilitation office.
• Document correctly the patients' information in electronic health record and observe HIPAA.
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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.