title: A special kind of nurse.
abstract: Pat Johnson is a special kind of nurse. She has helped develop a team of nurse practitioners to function much like the traditional pediatric intern in the newborn intensive care unit of St. Paul's Children's Hospital. She is able to do physical examinations, interprets test results, and then determines a baby's problems and needs from an insight that is a combination of nursing and medicine.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Peterson
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fisher
mesh_terms: D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric; D006801:Humans; D007224:Infant Care; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008910:Minnesota; D009722:Nurse Practitioners; D009725:Nurseries, Hospital; D012040:Regional Health Planning; D000078329:Workforce