Hi everyone, in this video I will talk about specialty places you can choose to
work in as a nurse practitioner in 2021.
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Nurse practitioners are one of the fastest growing advanced education
degrees you can get post nursing bachelors.
That is because you gain a provider role allowing you to help and treat others
in a more autonomous way.
This is great and excites me as this is not only an area that interests me but it
also allows for better care to be achieved for patients in the hospital or
community.
Alright so let's talk about specialties you can choose from as a nurse
practitioner.
This video will mostly talk about NP's in Canada and USA and there are some
significant differences between them.
Let's talk about US trained NP first.
USA NP's:
Master of Science in Nursing: Family Nurse Practitioner
The Master of Science in Nursing: Family Nurse Practitioner program
prepares experienced professional nurses for advanced practice as primary
care providers.
The family nurse practitioner (FNP) makes independent critical judgments in
all levels of prevention, including health promotion; illness prevention; and
diagnosis and management for individuals, families, communities and
populations.
The FNP performs comprehensive health assessments, diagnoses illness and
prescribes pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatments to manage
acute and chronic health problems to achieve quality, cost-effective
outcomes in a culturally sensitive context.
The role of the FNP includes educating, consulting, collaborating, using
research to make practice decisions, and influencing professional and public
policies.
Within various practice settings, the FNP provides health care for clients
across the life span.
Master of Science in Nursing: Acute Care Nurse Practitioner with an
Emphasis in Adult-Gerontology
The Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) in Adult-Gerontology Acute Care
Nurse Practitioner (ACNP) program enables experienced nurses to provide
advanced level care in complex, acute and critical setting for adults and
geriatric patients.
In the acute care role, nurse practitioners’ scope of work includes providing
assessments, diagnoses and care for adults and the elderly.
They perform health assessments, prescribe medications and suggest quality
health treatments to manage acute, subacute and complex patients, as well
as those with chronic illness.
Master of Science in Nursing: Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
Psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners (PMHNP) are responsible for
assessing the mental health status of patients by studying their relevant
medical history, performing comprehensive psychiatric evaluations, and
identifying risk factors that might affect a patient’s mental health.
They make diagnoses of their patients’ mental illness based on their
assessment, and then determine what will be the most effective plan of care.
By utilizing their knowledge of psychotherapy modalities and
psychopharmacology, and in collaboration with doctors and other
professionals, these advanced-practice nurses put their patients on a
regimen of therapy and prescription medication to improve their mental
health.
Master of Science in Nursing: Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
The role of the primary care pediatric nurse practitioner is to provide care to
children from birth through young adult with an in-depth knowledge and
experience in pediatric primary health care including well child care and
prevention/management of common pediatric acute illnesses and chronic
conditions.
Now there are sub-specialties within NP.
However these are typically more FNP's that choose to work in a specific
field.
For example, there are post surgical NP which focus on that specific
demographic for their work or another great example is cardiac nurse
practitioners.
These NP's are typically FNP's who choose to work in those specific fields
typically learning on the job or sometimes doing further education.
The US also has DNP which is your doctorate in nurse practitioner.
The last I researched I could not find one for the Canada.
Canada NP's:
NP's in Canada do not specialize in anything in particular, meaning they do
not do specialize in a certain demographic from nurse practitioner school
training.
Instead NPs work in a variety of health-care settings, such as Community
care which include community clinics, health-care centres, physicians’
offices and patients’ homes, they also work in long term care so like nursing
homes, work in hospitals in outpatient clinics, emergency rooms and other
patient areas and they work in NP led clinics.
They typically learn on the job and are trained to work in a variety of different
settings.