Test Bank Pediatric Nursing Critical Components Of Nursing Care 3rd Edition-Rudd

ant toant to Chapter 1 Issues and Trends in Pediatric Nursing The nurse has provided a presentation to middle school children about nursing as a career. One of the children stated that he wanted to be a pediatric nurse, because he wants to take care of babies and little kids. What would be an appropriate response to this middle school-aged child? Nursing is a general practice; all nurses must know how to take care of all ages of patients. As a pediatric nurse, you would get to care for babies and little kids as well as children through their teenage years. What you are describing is actually a neonatal nurse. Neonatal nurses work with newborn babies, toddlers, and preschool-age children. Being a pediatric nurse requires a masters degree, so be sure to work hard in school! As a pediatric nurse, you would get to care for babies and little kids as well as children through their teenage years. The medical-surgical float nurse is assigned to the pediatric unit for the first time and states that the skills are the same as general nursing since children are little adults with smaller bodies. What component of pediatric nursing contraindicates this statement? Pediatric