Nurse Anesthesia Principles IV. 3 Credit Hours

Catalog description

This course will reinforce and expand on the concepts learned in Nurse Anesthesia Principles I II and II. Various anesthesia techniques and the physiological effects of those techniques on concepts unique to cardiothoracic anesthesia will be the focus of the course. Learners will incorporate physiological and pathophysiological concepts unique to this population with anesthesia principles previous explored in Nurse Anesthesia Principles I, II, and III. New psychomotor skills needed for cardiothoracic anesthesia will be introduced and correlated to specific cases throughout the course. A lab setting will be utilized by learners to take anesthesia concepts and techniques taught during the course and correlate them to specific anesthetic management of cases. Prerequisites: NURS 7230 and NURS 7520 .