Terminal Objectives

Patient Safety

• Demonstrate an understanding of clinical prevention and population health for improving the nation’s health (DNP Essential VII)
• Maintain vigilance and patient safety throughout the perianesthetic continuum
• Protect patients from iatrogenic complications and utilizes appropriate precautions in infection control
• Conduct a comprehensive and appropriate equipment check

Individualized Perianesthetic Management

• Demonstrate an understanding of:
  • Scientific underpinnings for practice (DNP Essential I)
  • Clinical scholarship and analytical methods for evidence-based practice (DNP Essential III)
• Provide:
  • Care throughout the perianesthetic continuum
  • Anesthesia services to patients of all ages and physical conditions for a variety of surgical and medically related procedures, including trauma and emergency cases
• Use a variety of current anesthesia techniques, agents, adjunctive drugs and equipment while providing anesthesia
• Perform a pre-anesthetic assessment and formulates an anesthesia care plan for patient to whom he/she is assigned to administer anesthesia
• Function collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary team to affect patient outcomes
• Deliver culturally competent perianesthetic care throughout the anesthesia experience
• Identify and take appropriate action when confronted with anesthetic equipment-related malfunctions
• Interpret and utilize data obtained from noninvasive and invasive monitoring modalities
• Calculate, initiate and manage fluid and blood component therapy
• Recognize and appropriately respond to anesthetic complications that occur during the perianesthetic period

Critical Thinking

• Demonstrate an understanding of information systems/technology and patient care technology for the improvement and transformation of health care (DNP Essential IV)
• Apply theory to practice in decision making and problem solving
• Provide nurse anesthesia care based on sound principles and research evidence
• Critique and integrate scholarly research in order to improve anesthesia care and patient outcomes

Communication Skills

• Demonstrate:
  • An understanding of interprofessional collaboration for improving patient and population health outcomes (DNP Essential VI)
  • The ability to deliver a clear and organized public presentation
• Effectively communicate with all individuals influencing patient care
• Utilize appropriate verbal, nonverbal and written communication in the delivery of perianesthetic care

Professional Role

• Demonstrate:
  • An understanding of organizational and systems leadership for quality improvement and systems thinking (DNP Essential II)
  • An understanding of healthcare policy for advocacy in healthcare (DNP Essential VIII)
  • An understanding of advanced nursing practice (DNP Essential VIII)
  • Personal and professional integrity
  • Respect for human dignity to patients, peers and organizations
• Function as an advocate for patients, families and communities
• Positively influence healthcare policy decision and participate in activities which influence advanced nursing roles and improve patient care
• Understand sound principles of anesthesia risk management to include preventive and procedural strategies
• Participate in quality management activities and operate with budget restraints and cost effectiveness

The Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice

• Demonstrate an understanding of:
  • Scientific underpinnings for practice
  • Organizational and systems leadership for quality improvement and systems thinking
  • Clinical scholarship and analytical methods for evidence-based practice
  • Information systems/technology and patient care technology for the improvement and transformation of health care
  • Healthcare policy for advocacy in healthcare
  • Interprofessional collaboration for improving patient and population health outcomes
  • Clinical prevention and population health for improving the nation’s health
  • Advanced nursing practice