Pediatric Anesthesia Care Nursing Preceptorship 2 NSPE 7390

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Use a clinical decision-making framework to guide decisions in the provision of patient and family care.
• Demonstrate independent clinical decision-making in pediatric anesthesia care nursing during the care of pediatric patients and their families.
• Use therapeutic communication, collaboration and partnership skills in the development and maintenance of nurse–child and nurse–family relationships.
• Document and articulate assessment findings and patient, family and nursing concerns in a systematic and comprehensive manner.
• Provide competent nursing care that acknowledges and encourages collaboration with the patient, family and other inter-professional team members.
• Plan, implement and evaluate nursing care of pediatric patients and their families that reflects consideration of available resources, principles of growth and development, knowledge of normal and pathologic physiology, family-centred care, and standards of practice.
• Identify common issues that may contribute to post-operative complications or respiratory/cardiac arrest in pediatric patients who are undergoing sedation and general anesthesia.
• Provide safe, competent and ethical nursing care for pediatric patients (and their families) experiencing a variety of health challenges postoperatively, such as respiratory failure, cardiac failure, acute and hemodynamic instability.
• Participate in ethical decision-making in the pediatric anesthesia care setting.
• Assess learning needs of pediatric patients and families, and provide instructions to help them learn the required knowledge and skills to manage care upon discharge.
• Safely prepare, administer and monitor medications for pediatric patients.
• Provide safe, competent and ethical nursing care for pediatric patients who are experiencing alterations in oxygen supply and demand.
• Provide safe, competent and ethical nursing care for pediatric patients who are experiencing anticipatory pain or situational pain.
• Initiate peripheral IV therapy, manage complex infusions, manage complications of central lines, and administer IV direct medications to pediatric patients.

Effective as of Fall 2023