ANEST6100 Nurse Anaesthesia Course description

In this course, the students are expected to acquire advanced knowledge required to practise nurse anaesthesia in relation to patients who undergo surgery or examinations that require anaesthesia and acutely and/or critically ill patients. The students should acquire in-depth knowledge of patients' psychosocial and existential needs and methods for reducing stress and suffering.

Moreover, they are expected to acquire in-depth knowledge of relevant research and quality-related work (professional development, quality assurance or quality control work) in the field of nurse anaesthesia, and thereby understand the importance of research and quality-related work in clinical nurse anaesthesia. This course is intended to enable the students to document, develop the quality of and quality-assure nurse anaesthesia.

The students are expected to develop an awareness of how organisational, financial and legal factors influence nursing and the specialist health service and be able to see this in relation to their responsibility to practise nurse anaesthesia, be a leader in their field and work in a team. This course also covers knowledge of the working environment in a specialist unit and how stress factors in a working environment can be prevented and reduced.

Admission to the programme.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and competence:

Knowledge

The student

• has advanced knowledge of the functions and responsibilities of the nurse anaesthetist in the health service and society
• has advanced knowledge of how anaesthesia can feel and its effect on the patient
• has advanced knowledge of self-care deficits in relation to a patient's fundamental needs
• has knowledge of nursing ethics and different ethical guidelines
• has advanced knowledge of professional and ethical challenges in the field of nurse anaesthesia

Skills

The student

• is capable of analysing and taking a critical approach to existing theories on how patients experience anaesthesia, surgical procedures and examinations
• is capable of analysing and taking a critical approach to theories on communicating with patients and their next of kin
• is capable of analysing and taking a critical approach to theories on anaesthesia and analgesia
• is capable of analysing and taking a critical approach to theories on wholly or partly compensatory care in the event of serious self-care deficits in relation to a patient's fundamental needs

Competence

The student

• is capable of analysing relevant academic, professional and research ethics issues in nurse anaesthesia based on discipline knowledge, research, experience and patient knowledge
• is capable, with some supervision, of communicating about issues, analyses and conclusions in nurse anaesthesia, both with specialists and with the general public
• is capable of contributing to new ideas and innovation processes in clinical practice

Lectures, group work, seminars and self-study.

The following coursework requirements must be met before a student can receive an assessment for the course:

Assignment 1 - Regional anaesthesia. The conscious patient

• The students prepare their own research questions.
• Individual assignment.
• Scope: 3,000 words (+/- 20%).
• The syllabus selected by the students must be used in the assignment.
• The assignment must be written in accordance with the section Assessment of written work in the Assessment chapter of the programme description.
• The students receive written feedback from the lecturer.

Assignment 2 - General anaesthesia

• The students prepare their own research questions.
• Individual assignment.
• Scope: 3,000 words (+/- 20%).
• The syllabus selected by the students must be used in the assignment.
• The assignment must be written in accordance with the section Assessment of written work in chapter 10 Assessment in the programme description.
• The students receive written and oral feedback from their fellow students and oral feedback from the lecturer.

Reflection notes

• About a current theme
• Individual assignment
• Scope:

Attendance in compulsory activities

• Simulation
• Group work
• Seminars

A written in-depth assignment, written individually or in groups of up to three students. The assignment shall consist of a project outline for a piece of research or quality-related work based on a literature review, and it must be written in accordance with the section Assessment of written work in the Assessment chapter of the programme description.

Five weeks are set aside for work on this assignment.

Up to four hours of supervision is provided per assignment. Students who fail the assignment are offered two more hours of supervision.

Scope: 5,000 words (+/- 20%).

The title of the assignment will be included in the transcript of grades.

All aids are permitted, as long as the rules for source referencing are complied with.

Grade scale A-F. For group exams, all the students in the group are awarded the same grade. Students who are awarded a fail grade (F) are given one opportunity to submit a reworked version of the assignment.

All answer papers are assessed by two examiners, one of whom must be external.

ANEST6100 and MANES5100 overlap 100%.