Is There a Specialty Dealing With Teens?

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Specializes in Pediatric RN, FNP-BC.

I am mid-way through my first year of nursing school and love it. I was formerly a high school health and science teacher, and my favorite group of people to work with is teenagers. Is there a specific area of nursing I should look into that deals primarily with teens? I know that pediatrics is all ages up to 18, and that teens could potentially be served in any area, but wanting to know what I haven't thought of...

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

Community Health working with family planning.

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In home health, I have had clients that remained with their pediatrician after turning 21. You can do extended care home health and work with peds cases that are already in their teens. This is a good age group when the patient is capable of communicating. You can even get cases where you go to school with your patient. I'll bet you would love that!

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My goal is to work on an eating disorder unit in a psychiatric hospital, it's mostly teen girls.

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

When I was a student going through vocational nursing clinical rotations in the greater Los Angeles area 10 years ago, the Kaiser Hospital system operated teen clinics in many cities throughout the state.

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Adolescent psych is a possibility.

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The children's hospital in my area has an adolescent medicine program. You could look at the hospitals in your area to see if they have something similar.

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