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1. greydoc6 on January 2, 2010 11:55 pm

   First of all, nursing in any area has to be one of the most honorable of professions. They have to do a lot of onerous stuff to complete their mission. In pediatrics, a nurse takes care of relatively helpless infants and children, humans too young to make it on their own, and often very frightened at the hospital experience. Parents are often frightened, too, because their child is there most precious possession. A talented and dedicated nurse oversees the necessary treatments and care to return the child to health. A nurse working in the pediatrician’s office fulfills similar duties.
   Disadvantages include the onerous tasks, dealing with difficult parents and relatives and the occasional insensitive or over-bearing physician. Most difficult is watching a child die. It is difficult enough to watch an adult die, but the death of a child is especially emotionally traumatic. When a patient of mine died, I almost always saw one or more nurses at the funeral.
   An added advantage: in my objective and unbiased opinion, pediatric nurses are blessed with working with pediatricians.

2. mamabear on January 3, 2010 12:37 am

   Main advantage would be helping children and their families through an illness and watching that child go home happy and healthy. Disadvantage, is watching a child die that can’t be helped and watching the family deal with the death. Nothing can get more emotional than having a sick child.

3. girl_on_ on January 3, 2010 1:29 am

   disadvantages- overbearing parents………seeing children w/neglectful parents or parents who don.t really care….ex-parents who are mean to the children even when they are sick, parents who don.t even come visit their children, having patients who are ill because of their parents………