Course description
This course for RN’s and RPN’s will cover the fundamental nursing care provided in a hospital-based post-anaesthetic care unit, a surgical day care setting, and/or a unit where anaesthetic agents are administered, for example in an independent health care facility or an oral surgery setting. This course will support additional information required for all nurses caring for patient in the post-operative period including post caesarean birth. Topics will include anaesthetic agents, regional anaesthetics, pre and post anaesthetic assessments, pain control, post-operative emergencies and problems, airway management, IV sedation, and legal and ethical issues in the post anaesthetic care setting, and special PACU considerations for a range of surgical procedures.
Course details
Credit transfer
Have you taken this course or an equivalent course? Contact the Credit Transfer Office.
Registration dates
Not all courses are offered each term.
Spring 2024 registration opens March 11, 2024. Fall 2024 registration opens July 22, 2024.Delivery options
In person: classes held in person on a campus/site in a classroom/lab/shop/studio for the course duration
Online - Asynchronous: 100% online delivery, no scheduled day or time course requirements with the instructor, assigned due dates
Online - Synchronous: 100% online delivery, scheduled day and time course requirements with the instructor, assigned due dates
Hybrid: any combination of in person, timetabled, on campus, online, and hyflex delivery