Today we had a speaker from the St. Cloud Hospital talk to us about pediatric nursing. Katie Popp is a newer nurse and informed us on the schooling needed to become a pediatric nurse. In order to become a nurse, one must obtain a bachelor degree from a college or university and then become certified. Although you can become a registered nurse in two years, Katie recommends doing the four year degree because more and more jobs are requiring the four year degree and a registered nurse with a four year education will be paid more than a nurse that earned the nursing degree in two years. There are some positives and negatives that come from working with pediatrics. According to Katie, the positives include higher pay, the fact that you get to …show more content…
Parents become difficult to work with when they think they know more than the nurses or have very little trust in the nurses they become overwhelmed and do not always let the nurses do their jobs. In addition, Katie stated that it is much more difficult to work with parents who are in the room with the child they abused or a child who is withdrawing from drug abuse. However, the nurses have to be professional and still be courteous. In the field of pediatrics, there is a lot more hope for a patient because their bodies are able to compromise and heal much better than an adult's body. Adults who are in the hospital often have other causes that relate to their injury and therefore ensure that the nurses are more conscientious of what they are giving the patient to eat, drink, etc. A few main reasons pediatric nursing differs from other types of nursing because of the developmental interventions, the variety of patients and the patient’s conditions, precise care and monitoring, and that this nursing is more specialized than adult nursing. When dealing with an infant, nurses must be super cautious of the medicine they give them and how they care for