Clinical Practice IV

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Pre-requisites: ENFE 7253 - Clinical Practice III Students use clinical judgment application and decision -making in the development of skills with patients undergoing anesthesia for thoracic, cardiothoracic, vascular, and endovascular surgical procedures. Anesthesia is provisioned while the patient is und er the use of extracorporeal circulation or the use of one lung ventilation techniques. Considers anatomical, physiological, and pathophysiological aspects of special patient populations (obstetric, pediatric, neonatal, obese, and geriatric) into the anest hesia care plan. The course uses student’ self-evaluations, on-call experiences, anesthesia care plans, review of clinical cases and others. Nurse anesthesia students train under the direct supervision of the CRNA or MDA clinical preceptors and/or course instructor. The course is face-to-face on the clinical training sites.