Education of SRNAs on the Role of Vasopressin in Attenuating Hypotension: Cardiac and Non-Cardiac Anesthesia
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2018
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The purpose of this project was to educate and assess the baseline knowledge of the 26 junior student registered nurse anesthetists (SRNAs) within Adventist University of Health Science’s nurse anesthesia program regarding the use of vasopressin to attenuate hypotension among patients undergoing cardiac and non-cardiac surgery. The primary objective of this education and assessment was to increase the SRNAs knowledge base regarding vasopressin and to prepare them for their specialty clinical rotations. A literature review regarding specific situations in which vasopressin was successful in reducing hypotension was completed and an educational presentation was developed and presented to junior SRNAs currently enrolled in the nurse anesthesia program. A pretest and posttest was administered to assess whether or not the PowerPoint presentation education improved the students’ current knowledge base regarding the use of vasopressin. A paired t-test in SPSS was performed on the resulting data, which indicated a statistically significant increase in mean scores between the pretest and post-test based on a p-value < .001 and a t-value of -7.528. It can be inferred from these results that the presentation was successful in increasing students’ knowledge base regarding the use of vasopressin. The primary implication of these results is that the SRNAs upcoming practitioners that were educated will have a broader knowledge base of this alternate modality to treat hypotension.
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