User:Schmidtlynn/Pediatric nurse practitioner

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In the past couple decades, the job of a nurse practitioner has nearly doubled in the United States. Pediatric nurse practitioner numbers have stayed relatively the same. It is expected that the demand for the PNP's will start to increase in our society. This demand comes from children with chronic illnesses which are surviving and having diseases. PNP's are mostly taking over offices over the physicians, but still both work side by side. The PNP's passing rate of exams is increasing and should continue to keep increases over the years.Masters programs are starting to grow each year. Starting to expand the enrollment amount into programs because it leads to a larger student populations which in the end would result of more having the chance to enter the workforce. This is also due to students being able to be engaged the entire time of classes and the clinicals so the time is decreased to get PNP degree. 4.9% of NP graduates want to specialize in pediatrics.PNP's have a higher job availability than regular NP. The healthcare workforce is a work space where it is needed to work together as one due to all the aspects that could be put into one patient and to meet the challenges given. There is problems which healthcare is currently dealing with such as the right clinical experiences, right time of efficiencies and the funding. There is needed support to help with the development and how to keep the PNP programs continuing. The clinicals need to be done at different settings like rural and low-income areas to increase to experience of the students and what they would have to deal with. There also needs a to be a promotion of these for the immersion and post-graduate experiences. Due to the health care reform, there is expected to be a larger increase in patients seeking care due to the advance of health insurance coverages. Some children who are in need of care cannot receive it to due the demand of healthcare is increasing as a whole.This is more common in low income and rural areas. Many that are going to be a nurse practitioner has been choosing the FNP route instead of PNP's. All care that is needed for children is all different patient too patient. It depends on the age, development and response to what is wrong. PNP's can deal with illnesses such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, asthma, anxiety and depression. Some of these illnesses are still newer to the childcare environment. Having certain childhood illnesses can be extreme and effect later life or even the patients daily life. PNP's are shown to give high quality care to their patients and is a vital role in dealing with the chronic and critical health conditions of their patients. The states with a higher concentration of PNP's is mainly in the Northeast and in the Midwest. The states with a higher concentration includes states such as West Virginia, Idaho, New Mexico, and many others. These states also have the most children living in the states with more than 3,000 per physician.

Proposal
I picked pediatric nurse practitioner as my article. These sources all have a different purpose of how they can be beneficial for advancing the article, “Pediatric Nurse Practitioner”. There are some key points missing from this article that should’ve been added. For starters, the article by Gary L. Freed talks about pediatric nurse practitioners in greater detail which the article lacked. Then Sarah E. Barlow shows a more understanding of treatment and conditions such as obesity. This information is coming straight from PNP’s due to the fact that they reported all of it. Next, Greggory J. Schell explained the workforce with and behind the PNP’s which was also missing from the article. This will help people see what it takes to be this profession and how the job realistically is. Then is Brown’s article that explains more of the training which the article I picked did not include so this is needed. Lastly, Gigli’s source explains more of the workforce and how it is growing, and this can be used to show how PNP’s are growing which would benefit the article.