Introduction: The didactic year in Marian University's Nurse Anesthesia program equips students with a comprehensive understanding of anesthesia's core concepts, including pathophysiology, pharmacology, and physics. The first...
Background and Review of Literature: Bag-mask ventilation (BMV) is a critical skill in the perioperative setting and is difficult to master for student registered nurse anesthetists (SRNAs). BMV has been shown to be the...
When a patient arrives at the postoperative anesthesia care unit (PACU), a transfer of care report from the anesthesia provider to the PACU nurse occurs at the bedside. Historically, there has been a lack of completeness in...
Background: Malignant hyperthermia is a disorder of the skeletal muscle that can present as a hypermetabolic response to triggering agents. Anesthesia providers frequently administer these triggers in the operating room....
Background: Theories of Personality is an upper-level course focusing on the study of major theoretical paradigms of personality, including psychoanalytic, trait, biological, learning- cognitive and humanistic models. Students...
Student engagement in the learning experience has long been a goal of nursing educators. This escape room activity was developed in response to observations as well as student feedback that students were struggling to translate...
Bioscience courses in nursing education (anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, chemistry, and microbiology) have historically been called weed out classes. Nursing student attrition is highest during the 100 and 200-level...