Doctor of Nurse Anesthesia Practice - Entry Level Program Track

The Doctor of Nurse Anesthesia Practice Entry Level Program prepares graduates to assume leadership positions, with the ultimate goals of improving health care and patient outcomes. Graduates of the program are prepared to:

• Analyze current and emerging scientific knowledge and technologies to provide the highest level of nurse anesthesia practice.
• Translate applicable evidence-based research findings into practice.
• Initiate changes in response to social, political, economic and ethical issues in health care.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams in the design, implementation, and evaluation of programs and policies for the improvement of health care.
• Develop leadership skills to meet the challenges of increasingly complex health care and educational environments impacting the practice of nurse anesthesia.
• Employ teaching and learning principles in the education of individuals, families, anesthesia students and peers.
• Initiate physiologically sound, evidence-based and culturally sensitive individualized anesthesia care for diverse populations across the lifespan while considering the surgical procedures and comorbid conditions.
• Pass the National Certification Exam (NCE).
• Adhere to the American Nurse Anesthetist Association’s (AANA) Code of Ethics and Practice standards.

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