Nurse Practitioners
Nurse Practitioners are the real life superheroes!
By Gavi Williams - hour 2
Basic Information of a Nurse Practitioner
- Provides primary health care to individuals
- Makes independent desisions about healthcare needs
- Works with children or in the area of a child or adolescent services
- Can practice in direct health care situations with critical thinking
- Others can specialize in family nursing or geriatrics
You work under the super vision of doctors
- May work days, nights, weekends, and holidays
- Keeps detailed records of a patient
- Can work in hospitals, schools, nursing homes, clinics, and doctors offices
- You usually wear uniforms
Pros and cons of this career
Pros:
- Earn 51,020 per year at national average
- You have that accomplished feeling of helping someone get better
- Enjoys the responsibility for determining the course of treatments for patients
- Most likes using their skills, knowledge, and full potential while treating a patient
- You have to work long hours
- The need to be on call is difficult for full time workers
- You constantly need to change your work schedules
- If you can't help someone the way they want, you have to deal with the bad feeling of failing someone
What do you need to do to succeed in this career?
High school Courses:
- Advanced science
- Advanced math
- Advanced language arts
- Advanced social studies
- Anatomy
- Physiology
- Biotechnology
- Chemistry
- Foreign Language
- Statistics & Probability
- Pre-Nursing
- Clinic Nursing
- Critical Care Nursing
- Nurse Antesist
- Nurse midwifery
- Nurse Practitioner
- Nurse Administration
- Nurse Science
- Registered Nurse
- And you have to have a bachelors and doctorate degree
What colleges can you attend to earn a degree for this career?
University of Green BayUniversity of Wisconsin-Green Bay
2420 Nicolet Dr
2420 Nicolet Dr
Green Bay, WI 54311, US
- This university helps you become a critical thinker and creative problem solver by looking at problems from multiple perspectives.
- You can apply classroom and online learning through internships, research and independent study.
- Has a good environment for learning.
- You can speak with people who has engaged into a certain career similar to yours.
- It helps you follow your path to your certain career.
- This school makes you have a certain amount of points to be able to order food from different places outside the campus.
- This school is an an area that gets very cold in the winter.
- The University of Chicago
Edward H. Levi Hall
5801 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637
773.702.1234 - In this school they have many unique things like architectural highlights, unique traditions, notable alumni, famous dining locations, cafes, food trucks.
- There is also many art and history museums near the campus
- There are many great sights to see
- This university has many options to choose from
- There are many historical sights near campus
- Many people might not want to go to school in a big city
- The school has many activities which might be hard for people to focus on school work
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- This school has a very popular football team called the Seminoles
- Florida State University provides unmatched opportunities for students and faculty through hard academics, cultural discovery and community interaction.
- This school is in a very warm tropical area and many people like warm weather over cold weather.
- They offer more than 275 degree programs
- They have preforming arts classes to take which rank to almost the finest in the world
- Their football team is a very big deal to this school, so students could risk getting low grades from not concentrating on school work.
Associations/Professional organization for this career
American Association of Nurse Practitioners
- http://www.aanp.org
- AANP National Administrative Office
- PO Box 12846
- Austin, TX 78711
- Phone: (512) 442-4262
- Fax: (512) 442-6469
- admin@aanp.org
- https://www.napnap.org
- Government Affairs Office
- 20 F Street, NW
- Suite 700
- Washington, DC 20001
- Tel: 202-223-2250
Job Advertisement
We are looking for great Nurse Practitioners! If you are someone who loves to help others, can provide health care to others, is able to be on call all of the time, can accustom to working long hours each day, is okay with working days, nights, weekends, and holidays, and someone who can work well with children. If you can make independent desisions, that would be great! Now it is required you have a bachelors and doctorate degree, but if you have any of these, it will be even better:
- Pre-Nursing
- Clinic Nursing
- Critical Care Nursing
- Nurse Antesist
- Nurse midwifery
- Nurse Practitioner
- Nurse Administration
- Nurse Science
- Registered Nurse