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MSNA 532 - Basic Principles & Techniques of Nurse Anesthesia Practice (4)


Prerequisites: MSNA 530 
Corequisites: MSNA 532L 
This course provides a beginning foundation for students to plan and implement nursing anesthesia care in healthy patients. Topics include: designing and implementing individualized anesthesia care plans, principles of anesthesia induction, maintenance, emergence, anesthesia complications in the healthy patient, airway management, and anesthesia for basic abdominal, orthopedic, urologic, and ENT procedures. Simulator laboratory experience and operating room observation time is provided for students to develop beginning level airway and anesthesia management skills.

Course Didactic Hours: 3
Course Lab Hours at 3:1 ratio: 3
Course Clinical Hours at 8:1 ratio: 0