Celia Cervantes November 4, 2012 Neonatal Nurse and Pediatrician

Advantages Neonatal Nurse  You get to see your patients and their families leave the hospital grinning ear to ear with love, anticipation, excitement and nervousness!  Excellent Job Security  Excellent Pay and Benefits  Helping To Improve Lives Pediatrician  Working with a variety of children and families  Helping children to become better or manage their illness  Potential to earn very high salaries  Flexible work schedules  Seeing a patient progress is rewarding

High School Courses Neonatal Nurse  English  Math  Science  Biology  Health  Any other language Pediatrician  Child development  Math  Science  English  Any other language  Health

Cost of Colleges $$$$$ Neonatal Nurse  40-credit anywhere from $8,000 to $40,000 on neonatal nursing tuition  For a 60-credit $12,000 to $60,000  Neonatal nursing school costs all depend the school. High end of neonatal nursing tuition, private universities can charge as much as $1,000 per credit; on the low end, state universities charge about $200 per credit for residents and $500 per credit for nonresidents. Pediatrician  Ball state: total money is $18,700.  IU: state resident $ , nonresident $  College - 4 years: $ 20,000 - $100,000 total  Medical School - 4 years: $100,000 - $160,000 total  Residency - 3 years: Income of $30,000 - $40,000/year

Schools Available and Location Neonatal Nurse  Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing 511 N.E. Greenleaf St., Peoria, IL  University of Florida 355 Tigert Hall, Gainesville, FL  Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY  Duke University Durham, NC  University of California - San Francisco 500 Parnassus Ave., San Francisco, CA Pediatrician  Harvard University Boston, MA  University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA  University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH

Expected Salary Neonatal nurse  One to four years of work experience $61,674 to $81,827 as of July  five to nine years of experience was $67,520 to $84,570 in July  10 to 19 years of experience in the field was $80,901 to $104,313 in July 2009  20 years of work experience or more, their maximum average salary increased to $111,831 as of July 2009  median annual salary of $50,919  Neonatal Nurse, Average Salary: $74,000 Pediatrician  A starter will begin with $135,000 a year and overall average is $175,000 a year.

How Long Will This Take? Neonatal Nurse  Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing, typically a 4- year program.  master’s program in neonatal nursing, typically lasting 2 years.  it will take approximately 6 years to become a neonatal nurse. Pediatrician  Four years of college  Four years of medical school  One year of a Pediatrics internship  Two years of a Pediatrics residency

Disadvantages Neonatal Nurse  Physically Demanding  Heartbreaking Cases  Long hours  Sick infants  High stress Pediatrician  Seeing clients become ill, suffer or even pass away  Working long hours  Working on weekends and holidays  Being on call Anonymous

What's Best For Me What I think would be best for me is being a Neonatal Nurse. Working with premature babies will be very rewarding. Here are my reasons why.  I get to see premature babies grow and get healthy.  See them leave with their happy family.  And know that I helped a baby make it as far as it did.

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