Nurse Anesthetists
Your advanced-practice nursing experience in scope-based care, patient advocacy, and collaborative care delivery supports civilian nurse anesthesia practice.
How to prepare: Compare your existing graduate education, licenses, and national certification with the intended state nursing board's requirements and employer's credentialing criteria to identify any gaps. State APRN requirements vary but generally include an RN license, accredited graduate education, national certification, and an APRN license.
What the civilian work involves
- Manage patients' airway or pulmonary status, using techniques such as endotracheal intubation, mechanical ventilation, pharmacological support, respiratory therapy, and extubation.
- Monitor patients' responses, including skin color, pupil dilation, pulse, heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, ventilation, or urine output, using invasive and noninvasive techniques.
- Select, order, or administer anesthetics, adjuvant drugs, accessory drugs, fluids or blood products as necessary.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
- Epic Systems
- Patient management software