Nursing as a profession started when Florence Nightingale showed the world importance of nursing in patient care before that nursing and nurses never gained respect and popularity. After the development of professional nursing, it never looked back and continued to grow as a major component of any health care systems in the world. Today nurses not only perform bedside nursing but joined doctors to provide more complex direct patient care by gaining knowledge and trust of the people. Nurses are successfully working in all the departments of medicine, including family medicine, internal medicine, acute care, surgery, women 's health and anesthesia. This article describes in detail about the history of nurse anesthesia how it grew to
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Nurse anesthetics are safely administering anesthesia in thousands of hospitals across the country. In rural American hospitals sometimes they are the only anesthesia providers. Nurse anesthetics practice according to their respective state regulations and hospital policies. They provide anesthesia and related care in four general categories which include pre anesthetic preparation and evaluation, anesthesia induction maintenance and emergency, post anesthetic care, perianesthetic and clinical support (American Association Of Nurse Anesthetists, n.d.)Click and drag to move. The scope of practice for nurse anesthetics is very vast which includes but not limited to preanesthetic assessment and documentation, developing specific plan according to the patient and implement them, selecting and implementing anesthesia technique, administering anesthesia, monitoring the patient during the procedure, keeping patient airway and pulmonary status in check, managing emergency and recovery for anesthesia, discharging patient form post anesthesia care, pain management after the procedure and reporting to the emergencies (American Association Of Nurse Anesthetists, n.d.)Click and drag to
Nurse anesthetics are safely administering anesthesia in thousands of hospitals across the country. In rural American hospitals sometimes they are the only anesthesia providers. Nurse anesthetics practice according to their respective state regulations and hospital policies. They provide anesthesia and related care in four general categories which include pre anesthetic preparation and evaluation, anesthesia induction maintenance and emergency, post anesthetic care, perianesthetic and clinical support (American Association Of Nurse Anesthetists, n.d.)Click and drag to move. The scope of practice for nurse anesthetics is very vast which includes but not limited to preanesthetic assessment and documentation, developing specific plan according to the patient and implement them, selecting and implementing anesthesia technique, administering anesthesia, monitoring the patient during the procedure, keeping patient airway and pulmonary status in check, managing emergency and recovery for anesthesia, discharging patient form post anesthesia care, pain management after the procedure and reporting to the emergencies (American Association Of Nurse Anesthetists, n.d.)Click and drag to