Nurse Practitioner

Anais Conti

Colleges

• Westchester Community College, NY

• Syracuse University, NY

• SUNY Stonybrook University, NY

• SUNY upstate medical university, NY

• New York Medical College, NY

• Adelphi University, NY

Duties And Responsibilities

• Identifying the health of an individual

• Checking for problems that need to be referred to physicians or other sources

• Treating acute or chronic illness

• Teaching health maintenance to patients and families

• Consulting and coordinating all phases of patient health care.

Earnings

Salaries Per Year-

• Albany: $76,671

• Buffalo: $72,960

• New York City: $93,316

• Rochester: $74,238

• Syracuse: $69,002

Advancement & Employment Opportunities

• Nurses with additional education who become nurse practitioners can expect increases in their salary and responsibility.

• Administrative or teaching positions are also alternative promotional positions.

• Nurse Practitioners can receive paid vacations, holidays, and sick days; life and death insurance; and retirement benefits.

Future Outlook In Regards To Job Availability

• Medical employment is expected to grow faster than most through the year 2020.

• 2.7 million RN’s, of which NP’s are a part, in 2010.

• This field is growing rapidly because nurse practitioners provide some care previously offered only by physicians and in most states have the ability to prescribe medicine.

Suggested HS Courses

• Applied Math & Science Classes

• Foreign language

• Health & Technology

• Child growth and development

• English

• Nurse Assisting

• Physiology

Required Education & Training

• Bachelors Degree & Masters Degree

• Must graduate from an approved nursing program and pass a licensing examination to first obtain a nursing license

Work Cited

• nurse practitioner symbol - Google Search." Google. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Oct. 2012. <http://www.google.com/search?num=10&hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source

• http://library.coin3.com/ReportDetails.cfm?EX=1&Occ=1&URLPATH=/exploration/exploration_content.cfm?Occ=1