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Considering going back to school

daniegirl6224

daniegirl6224

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Considering going back to school to become a psychiatric nurse practitioner (NP). Do you know if there is any need for psych NPs specializing in autism?? That would be my dream job, but I do not know whether there is a need.
 
Read this and you decide:

An Updated Guide to Autism Screening: A Primer for Nurse Practitioners

Then again you have to consider that while healthcare represents inelastic demand, autism is not a fatal condition and demographically reflects a relatively small portion of any population.

But clearly many of us need help in one way or another. So I'd consider "need" relative to being close to larger population centers than smaller ones. That not all areas are equal when it comes to a medical infrastructure that caters to autistic patients.

https://www.npjournal.org/article/S1555-4155(23)00398-7/pdf
 
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