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Effective Teaching Modalities In Nurse Anesthesia Pharmacology, Jordan Frey Eldridge, Lane Hebert Bielstein

Doctoral Projects

Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists entering the clinical setting must be able to recall and apply pharmacological principles learned through Nurse Anesthesia Pharmacology classes. To ensure students are prepared to perform in high-pressure environments such as the clinical setting and in stressful situations, students must have a firm pharmacological background. To determine the most effective teaching modality for nurse anesthesia pharmacology, an extensive literature review was conducted exploring pharmacological principles, high-pressure performance, the stress of new students in clinical health professions, and adult pedagogy.

A survey was created based on the survey disseminated by The University of Southern Mississippi to the …