Tara Fishwild, NP
Nurse Practitioner (NP)
Pediatrics
About Tara Fishwild, NP
Tara Fishwild, NP is a board-certified Nurse Practioner providing care at The Center for Pediatric Excellence, PLLC in Smyrna, TN.
The Services that Tara Fishwild can provide to your family include:
- Same-day appointments
- Prenatal interviews
- St Thomas Rutherford and Tristar Stonecrest newborn hospital visits
- Diagnosis and management of acute and chronic illness
- Immunizations
- Monitoring growth and development from newborn to 21 years old
- Adolescent care
- Counseling of nutrition and safety, developmental concerns, and behavioral concerns
- Circumcisions
- Frenulectomy
- Treatment of minor injuries
- Lactation services
During pregnancy:
- Prenatal lactation appointments to address any concerns and to discuss a plan for after delivery
After Delivery: Outpatient appointments to address
- Latch difficulties
- Sore, cracked nipples
- Frenulectomy (clipping of a tongue tie) with in-office feed after the procedure
- Pump- questions/ operation of
- Pain during/after feedings
- Milk supply concerns
- Supplementation guidelines
- Induced lactation/ relaxation- can assist in the guidance of how to achieve baby without gain issues
- Difficulties going from breast to bottle or bottle to breast
- History of breast or chest surgery
- Difficulties with prior babies nursing
- In-office feeding sessions
- Follow to baby and mother through their journey as a lactation consultant and Pediatric nurse practitioner
Procedures & Services
Patient Education Resources
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What are treatments for my child’s asthma?
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What is the treatment for severe atopic dermatitis?
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Education & Training
Undergraduate
Kettering College of Medical Arts
Graduate
Wright State University