Doctor of Nurse Anesthesia Practice
Curriculum
Full-Time Plan of Study
| Total DNAP = 33 Credits |
| Fall |
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Spring |
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Summer |
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12 |
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11 |
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10 |
| DNAP 701 Human Factors and Patient Safety for Nurse Anesthetists |
3 |
DNAP 702 Nurse Anesthesia Patient Safety Seminar |
3 |
DNAP 712 Leadership in Nurse Anesthesia Education |
3 |
| DNAP 789 Nurse Anesthesia Professional Practice |
3 |
DNAP 711 Policy and Practice for Nurse Anesthetists |
3 |
DNAP 789 Nurse Anesthesia Professional Practice |
3 |
| ALHP 701 Health Services Delivery Systems |
3 |
DNAP 799 Nurse Anesthesia Capstone Project |
2 |
DNAP 799 Nurse Anesthesia Capstone Project |
4 |
| Fall ( 6 mo. semester ) |
Spring ( 6 mo. semester ) |
| ALHP 760 Biostatistical Methods for Health Related Sciences |
3 |
ALHP 708 Ethics and Health Care |
3 |
2-year Part-time Plan of Study
| Year 1 ( 18 credits ) |
| Fall |
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Spring |
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Summer |
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| DNAP 701 Human Factors and Patient Safety for Nurse Anesthetists |
3 |
DNAP 702 Nurse Anesthesia Patient Safety Seminar |
3 |
DNAP 712 Leadership in Nurse Anesthesia Education |
3 |
| ALHP 701 Health Services Delivery Systems |
3 |
DNAP 711 Policy and Practice for Nurse Anesthetists |
3 |
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Spring ( 6 mo. semester ) |
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ALHP 708 Ethics and Health Care |
3 |
| Year 2 ( 15 credits ) |
| Fall |
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Spring |
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Summer |
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| DNAP 799 Nurse Anesthesia Capstone Project |
2 |
DNAP 799 Nurse Anesthesia Capstone Project |
2 |
DNAP 799 Nurse Anesthesia Capstone Project |
2 |
| DNAP 789 Nurse Anesthesia Professional Practice |
2 |
DNAP 789 Nurse Anesthesia Professional Practice |
2 |
DNAP 789 Nurse Anesthesia Professional Practice |
2 |
| Spring ( 6 mo. semester ) |
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| ALHP 760 Biostatistical Methods for Health Related Sciences |
3 |
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3-year Part-time Plan of Study
| Year 1 ( 12 credits ) |
| Fall |
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Spring |
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Summer |
|
| DNAP 701 Human Factors and Patient Safety for Nurse Anesthetists |
3 |
DNAP 702 Nurse Anesthesia Patient Safety Seminar |
3 |
DNAP 712 Leadership in Nurse Anesthesia Education |
3 |
| ALHP 701 Health Services Delivery Systems |
3 |
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| Year 2 (11 credits) |
| Fall |
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Spring |
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Summer |
|
| DNAP 789 Nurse Anesthesia Professional Practice |
2 |
DNAP 711 Policy and Practice for Nurse Anesthetists |
3 |
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| Fall ( 6 mo. semester ) |
Spring ( 6 mo. semester ) |
| ALHP 760 Biostatistical Methods for Health Related Sciences 3 |
ALHP 708 Ethics and Health Care 3 |
| Year 3 (10 credits) |
| Fall |
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Spring |
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Summer |
|
| DNAP 799 Nurse Anesthesia Capstone Project |
2 |
DNAP 799 Nurse Anesthesia Capstone Project |
2 |
DNAP 799 Nurse Anesthesia Capstone Project |
2 |
| DNAP 789 Nurse Anesthesia Professional Practice |
2 |
DNAP 789 Nurse Anesthesia Professional Practice |
2 |
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Course Descriptions
| DNAP 701 - Human Factors and Patient Safety for Nurse Anesthetists (3 Semester hours) |
| Explores the theoretical basis of human error, patient safety, and quality assurance in anesthesia care. Introduces a systems approach to error investigation and analysis. Integrates concepts of teamwork, crisis management, simulation, and monitoring systems in anesthesia practice. |
| DNAP 702 Nurse Anesthesia Patient Safety Seminar (3 semester hours) |
| Focuses on analysis of adverse anesthesia events from a systems perspective, use of multidisciplinary teams to solve management problems, and constructive techniques for communicating with patients, families, and health care providers who are involved in medical errors. |
| DNAP 711 Policy and Practice for Nurse Anesthetists (3 semester hours) |
| Examines governmental and non-governmental issues that influence nurse anesthesia practice. Focus is on development of skills that contribute to leadership and personal effectiveness in implementing change in nurse anesthesia and health care. Emphasizes interdisciplinary relationships between CRNAs, nurses, physicians, administrators, policy makers, and other key stakeholders. |
| DNAP 712 Leadership in Nurse Anesthesia Education (3 semester hours) |
| Examines principles of teaching and learning applicable to the anesthesia didactic and clinical environment. Presents strategies in teacher/learner communication, presentation development and strategies, curriculum design, and methods of evaluation pertinent to nurse anesthesia education. |
| DNAP 789 Nurse Anesthesia Professional Practice (6 semester hours) |
| Emphasizes learning through advanced clinical experiences in anesthesia practice. Explores concepts of nurse anesthesia practice, competence and expertise, the use of critical thinking skills, and reflection as an evaluation method. Focuses on methods of determining best clinical practices through identification of problems, review and systematic evaluation of current research, interdisciplinary collaboration, and consideration of economic and other factors that may impact patient outcomes. |
| DNAP 799 Nurse Anesthesia Capstone Project (6 semester hours) |
| Focuses on identification of relevant clinical issues in anesthesiology with attendant formulation of critically applicable questions, and examination of the relevant research evidence that addresses those questions. Students implement and evaluate a terminal project and disseminate the results through an oral and/or poster presentation, manuscript submission to a peer-reviewed journal, or another appropriate medium. |
| ALHP 701 Health Services Delivery Systems (3 semester hours) |
| Examines the structure and function of the US health care delivery system, the concepts and processes of health and illness, the institutional and individual providers of health services and related theory. Focuses on interdisciplinary care. Emphasizes meeting the unique needs of ethnically and culturally diverse populations. |
| ALHP 708 Ethics and Health Care (3 semester hours) |
| Applies the principles of biomedical and health care ethics to develop a more informed understanding of ethical decision-making in the formulation of health care policy, as well as within the clinical environment. Focuses on utilizing and searching biomedical ethics literature; current issues in biomedical ethics; the discipline and process of ethical reflection; and case consultation. |
| ALHP 760 Biostatistical Methods for Health Related Sciences (3 semester hours) |
| Examines basic concepts and techniques of statistical methods, including the collection and display of information, data analysis, and statistical measures; variation, sampling, and sampling distributions; point estimation, confidence intervals, tests of hypotheses for one and two sample problems; principles of one-factor experimental design, one-way analysis of variance, and multiple comparisons; and correlation and regression analysis. |
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