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2019-2020 Graduate Catalog 
    
2019-2020 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

NUR 600 Physical Assessment in Anesthesia Practice I

Summer Semester

Lectures, demonstrations, group discussions and simulations are presented to develop the skills of the student nurse anesthetist in obtaining a comprehensive health history along with the cognitive and psychomotor techniques needed in the performance of advanced physical assessment of those patients preparing to undergo anesthesia.  The assessment of the cardiovascular, respiratory and renal systems on patients throughout their lifespans includes the skills necessary to perform inspection, palpation, percussion, auscultation.   Students have a weekly simulated laboratory.  2 credit hours