Comparing Two Nursing Specialties

Comparing Two Nursing Specialties Write a paragraph or make a Nursing Specialty Comparison table, comparing at least two nursing specialties that include your selected specialization and second-preferred specialization.
My preferred specialty is the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP), and my second-preferred specialization is the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. These two are quite different and only match in the need to have potential nurses in either of the areas have a Master of Science in Nursing degree. However, the two differ on different fronts. One, as a PMHNP, one mainly deals with mental health issues of patients and their families (Walden, 2022). On the other hand, Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (PNPs) offer primary healthcare to children right from birth to when they are young adults (Walden, 2022). Walden (2022) indicates that PNPs need to amass knowledge to deal with “infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.” The difference here lies in the ability to specialize for PMHNPs, and the wider focus allowed for PNPs. The second difference lies in the ability of PMHNPs to deal with patients of all ages, while PNPs only deal with children to young adults (Walden, 2022).
Write a 2- to 3-paragraph justification statement identifying your reasons for choosing your MSN specialization. Incorporate feedback you received from colleagues in this Module’s Discussion forum.
The first reason I chose the PMHNP specialty is that I will be allowed to specialize in one area. I prefer a field that allows me to grow and become an authority in a focused area. PMHNP offers me this advantage, unlike PNP, which will force me to absorb knowledge in different areas. I believe that I will get to be an authority in mental health once I am through with my studies.
The second reason lies in the fact that mental health issues are currently some of the most problematic issues in society. In the U.S. alone, four in ten adults were said to have experienced some form of mental health issue during the COVID-19 pandemic (Panchal et al., 2021). This is an alarming number and one that is likely to get worse in case measures are not adopted to help reduce the impact of mental health issues. I would like to be part of the solution, especially with r...