ANEST6100 Nurse Anaesthesia Course description

The year group will attend lectures, seminars and introductions together. Discussions, skills training and projects, including project presentations, demand greater participation and take place in smaller groups.

The course comprises a short introductory practical training and a course related to database searches and evidence-based practice. It also comprises planning and the undertaking of fieldwork related to universal design and activity projects in nursing homes. The students work on practical and theoretical tasks both individually and in groups of different sizes.

Students must meet the compulsory attendance requirement in order to sit the exam.

Exam content: The learning outcomes

Exam form

Combined exam:

1) Individual portfolio with 3 written assignments, up to 1,500 words per assignment

2) Individual home exam over 4 days, up to 2,000 words

All

• Nurse anaesthesia in a historical perspective
• The nurse anaesthetist's functions and areas of responsibility
• Professional and ethical challenges in nurse anaesthesia
• Prevention of preanaesthetic, peranaesthetic and postanaesthetic complications

The patient's experiences, reactions and needs in relation to anaesthesia

• Preanaesthesia assessment and risk assessment
• Induction and maintenance of and emergence from anaesthesia

Grade scale A - F. One of the assignments in the portfolio will be selected for assessment. One overall grade is awarded for the portfolio assignment and the home exam, where each part counts equally towards the overall grade. Students must nonetheless be awarded a pass grade A-E for both parts of the exam in order to pass the exam. If the student is awarded an F in one part of the exam, this part of the exam must be retaken.

Time: First semester

One external and one internal examiner will assess 20% of the exam papers. The remaining papers are assessed by one internal examiner. The external examiner´s assessment shall benefit all students.

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%.