What is a medical career that involves working with children? Something different than a pediatrician though..

I am in college and I know I want to major in something that will lead me into a medical career. I want to work with children really (or help women…) but I dont want to be a pediatrician and thats what everyone tells me, I want to be different. Also, if there are other things besides nursing that would be wonderful.

1 comment to What is a medical career that involves working with children? Something different than a pediatrician though..

  • spongebob squarepants

    You could be a pediatric nurse, and work with sick kids/babies in hospitals in just about any area you could think of: oncology, intensive care, asthma case management, pediatric emergency room nurse, the list goes on and on… You could also work in public health with teen moms, or doing home visits to kids' houses to make sure their parents are managing their medical issues properly, working with them if they're not.

    School nursing (it's actually a specialty!) and work with kids at school. You could also be a pediatric nurse practioner and work with a doctor seeing kids as patients in clinics or in hospitals.

    You could also specialize in pediatric mental health, working with kids who were abused, or with other psychiatric diagnoses.

    There are two main routes in healthcare: being a physician or being a nurse. If you want to work with kids, but you're not sure about the exact area, going the nursing route may offer you more flexiability, as you would still get to work with kids, but you would have more variety (mental health, public health, hospital, etc.) and in which capacity (as an RN, or a nurse practioner). You also wouldn't be locked into a specific area, and you would have the ability to move around if you would want to.

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