NA630 Professional Aspects of Nurse Anesthesia Practice (3 cr.)

This course provides the graduate nurse anesthesia student an opportunity to focus on a variety of professional practice components. Reading and discussion topics include the evolution of the professional inclusive of regulation, policy, and credentialing; ethical and legal implications associated with practice; delivery systems, informatics, and reimbursement. Professional resources and maintaining wellness are also discussed.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1.  Analyze how the changes in the healthcare system influence patient care.
2.  Investigate the strategies used by the  AANA and individual CRNA’s who have been able to influence state and federal legislation of practice.
3.  Determine the process and methods used by individual states, state boards of nursing, and healthcare organizations to regulate CRNA practice and credential providers.
4.  Analyze current issues facing nurse anesthesia practice and determine strategies on how to address these issues.
5.  Identify federal and state law, regulatory agencies, and institutional policies that are applicable to the definition of practice, the assignment of liability, and the definition of malpractice.
6.  Apply the essential elements of patient care documentation in relation to the AANA scope and standards of practice.
7.  Discuss strategies to both promote wellness and address the CRNA who is impaired.
8.  Apply the Code of Ethics for the Certified Registered Nurse Anesthesia to the Code of Ethics for Nurses and relate both to the concepts of beneficence, non-maleficence, and social justice.