Pediatric Nursing Career
All about Pediatric Nursing and Physical Therapy Assistant as Careers
Two professions that could be a possibility for someone who loves working with people especially children but also the health career world would be pediatric nurse or physical therapy assistant. Both of these are very rewarding careers and are never the same from a day to day basis, so if you worry about having a job that gets boring after you get the experience you want, there’s nothing to worry about with these because every day there will be something different you are looking at to working with. I personally would like to work in both professions because I think that if one wanted to they would be able to incorporate both professions into an everyday job.
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Being a Pediatric nurse is a profession that makes sure you aren’t doing the same thing every day. Working with children of birth to 18 years of age is the focus of being a Pediatric Nurse. I currently work at a daycare as a Pre-school teacher, and have recently discovered that I love working with children. Children are very optimistic, and working with them is such an interesting job. Being able to communicate with not only their parents but also the children is a big component of being a Pediatric Nurse. You want to be able to educate and work with the family to make sure the child or children are being raised in the best possible healthy lifestyle that is available. You have to learn how to be compassionate but not get too attached to every child that comes into the pediatrician’s office. With the opportunity of working as a Pediatric Nurse, I would love to work in a privately owned pediatric office, or another option I would consider would be working in the pediatric wing at a …show more content…
It is a very serious job but, on the other hand, it is very fun to. Children are fun to be around; therefore, they require a lot of attention to make sure they aren’t hurting themselves. Some of the responsibilities of a pediatric nurse are assessing patient’s needs, providing patient care, assisting families with a child’s illness or injury, provide information regarding nutrition and good health habits, identifying a child’s symptoms, evaluating a child for symptoms and sings of abuse and providing general supportive care toward the child and family (Payscale, 2016). It requires a person to have superb bedside manner and a deep passion for both children and the health care industry (Payscale,
Two professions that could be a possibility for someone who loves working with people especially children but also the health career world would be pediatric nurse or physical therapy assistant. Both of these are very rewarding careers and are never the same from a day to day basis, so if you worry about having a job that gets boring after you get the experience you want, there’s nothing to worry about with these because every day there will be something different you are looking at to working with. I personally would like to work in both professions because I think that if one wanted to they would be able to incorporate both professions into an everyday job.
Physical Therapy …show more content…
Being a Pediatric nurse is a profession that makes sure you aren’t doing the same thing every day. Working with children of birth to 18 years of age is the focus of being a Pediatric Nurse. I currently work at a daycare as a Pre-school teacher, and have recently discovered that I love working with children. Children are very optimistic, and working with them is such an interesting job. Being able to communicate with not only their parents but also the children is a big component of being a Pediatric Nurse. You want to be able to educate and work with the family to make sure the child or children are being raised in the best possible healthy lifestyle that is available. You have to learn how to be compassionate but not get too attached to every child that comes into the pediatrician’s office. With the opportunity of working as a Pediatric Nurse, I would love to work in a privately owned pediatric office, or another option I would consider would be working in the pediatric wing at a …show more content…
It is a very serious job but, on the other hand, it is very fun to. Children are fun to be around; therefore, they require a lot of attention to make sure they aren’t hurting themselves. Some of the responsibilities of a pediatric nurse are assessing patient’s needs, providing patient care, assisting families with a child’s illness or injury, provide information regarding nutrition and good health habits, identifying a child’s symptoms, evaluating a child for symptoms and sings of abuse and providing general supportive care toward the child and family (Payscale, 2016). It requires a person to have superb bedside manner and a deep passion for both children and the health care industry (Payscale,