DNP810 Healthcare System Leadership 1: Professional Aspects and Role Development of the Nurse Anesthetist (2 cr.)

This course provides the graduate nurse anesthesia student an opportunity to focus on a variety of professional practice components and role development. Reading and discussion topics include the evolution of the profession, practice regulation, wellness and substance use disorder, business practices, and legal implications associated with anesthesia practice. Access to professional resources is also discussed.

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

1. Compare and contrast the processes and methods used by individual states, state boards of nursing, and healthcare organizations to regulate CRNA practice and credential providers.
2. Distinguish federal and state laws, regulatory agencies, and institutional policies that are applicable to the definition of practice, the assignment of liability, and the definition of malpractice.
3. Integrate and apply the essential elements of patient care documentation in relation to the AANA scope and standards of practice.
4. Define professional responsibility.
5. Consider the history of the nurse anesthesia profession in relation to today’s practice.
6. Demonstrate knowledge of wellness and chemical dependency in the anesthesia profession through completion of content in wellness and chemical dependency.
7. Determine strategies to inform the public and other stakeholders of the roles and practice of the CRNA.