PEDIATRIC NURSE

Pediatric Nurse

Table of Contents

Introduction1

Discussion1

Role of Pediatric Nurse1

Responsibilities of Pediatric Nurse3

Professional Accountability4

Regulation Of The Professional Selected6

Pediatric Nursing Care Plan8

References13

Appendices15

Job description: Nurse15

Hours/Environment15

Entry15

Annual income16

Pediatric Nurse

Introduction

I have chosen this profession because a pediatric nurse is a healthcare worker who is a professional registered nurse and assists medical doctors in their tasks, deals with emergencies in their absence, and provides professional nursing care for sick babies and children in the children's ward of a medical institution. A pediatric nurse is a professional registered nurse who assists medical doctors, and esp. pediatricians, in their tasks, deals with emergencies in their absence, and provides professional nursing care for sick babies and children in a children's ward in a medical institution. Responsible for the washing, cleaning, dressing and undressing, and feeding of the children; helps the children to execute all necessary physical activities, including cleaning after vomiting, defecation, etc. Also, helps children in their studies. (National Association pf Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, 2003)

Discussion

Role of Pediatric Nurse

The role of the pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP) is continuing to evolve and expand to meet the increasingly complex health care demands of the pediatric population. Although the PNP role initially was developed to provide pediatric primary care, PNPs now practice in a variety of settings: private practices, school clinics, hospital clinics, inpatient care settings, including intensive care units, and emergency departments. Most of these settings now involve secondary and tertiary care. This expansion from primary care to secondary and tertiary care may require PNPs to obtain additional credentialing and privileging from an institution. The purpose of this article is to familiarize PNPs with the necessary credentialing, privileging, delineation of privileging, and reappointment processes, regardless of the PNP's clinical practice setting. (Rozovsky, 2004)

The pediatric nurse practitioner role in the tertiary setting is one of several emerging roles gaining recognition in the various groups of advanced practice nursing programs today. The advanced practice nurse (APN) who is a pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP) in an acute care setting helps to provide cost-effective, quality patient care for critically and chronically ill children who are in these settings. The foundation of advanced practice nursing in this role incorporates the general role expectations of advanced nursing preparation, including case management, clinical pathway development, consultation and education, research, and collaboration, with the specific knowledge and skills of the pediatric nurse practitioner to function effectively with sick children in the acute care areas. (O'Connor, 2002, 414)

Responsibilities of Pediatric Nurse

Pediatric nurse have already discussed many of the responsibilities. A few more include being a patient advocate, always maintaining confidentiality for your patient and their families, ensuring that the family and patient understand what is being done, always maintaining professionalism, now matter how tired or upset one, and basically performing your duties in accordance with hospital policy. It also pediatric nurse duty to keep the level of knowledge up and to continue learning even after school by reading journals and asking lots of questions.

As the role of the PNP continues to evolve and expand to meet the complex health care demands of ...