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
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