Pediatric nurse vs nurse practitioner

Differences between pediatric nurse and nurse practitioner duties and responsibilities

Pediatric nurse example responsibilities.

• Provide continuous telemetry monitoring and managing multiple patients with multiple high-risk medical conditions, utilizing interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Manage surgical recovery patients including vascular, ENT, GI urological and neurological cases, coronary bypass surgery patients.
• Coordinate care for acute and chronic pediatric oncology patients with an emphasis on family centered care and patient education.
• Certify in ACLS and BLS.
• Provide excellent patient care to children, showing compassion and nurturing while in office.
• Function as a staff nurse in a twelve bed ICU caring for patients with various illnesses.
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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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