Nurse Anesthetists, Nurse Midwives, and Nurse Practitioners

Nurse Anesthetists, Nurse Midwives, and Nurse Practitioners typically perform the following tasks: • Manage patients' airway or pulmonary status, using techniques such as endotracheal intubation, mechanical ventilation, pharmacological support, respiratory therapy, and extubation. • Respond to emergency situations by providing airway management, administering emergency fluids or drugs, or using basic or advanced cardiac life support techniques. • 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. • Select, prepare, or use equipment, monitors, supplies, or drugs for the administration of anesthetics. • Assess patients' medical histories to predict anesthesia response. • Perform or manage regional anesthetic techniques, such as local, spinal, epidural, caudal, nerve blocks and intravenous blocks. • Develop anesthesia care plans. • Obtain informed consent from patients for anesthesia procedures. • Prepare prescribed solutions and administer local, intravenous, spinal, or other anesthetics, following specified methods and procedures. • Perform pre-anesthetic screenings, including physical evaluations and patient interviews, and document results. • Calibrate and test anesthesia equipment. • Evaluate patients' post-surgical or post-anesthesia responses, taking appropriate corrective actions or requesting consultation if complications occur. • Administer post-anesthesia medications or fluids to support patients' cardiovascular systems. • Select and prescribe post-anesthesia medications or treatments to patients. • Perform or evaluate the results of diagnostic tests, such as radiographs (x-rays) and electrocardiograms (EKGs). • Select, order, or administer pre-anesthetic medications. • Insert peripheral or central intravenous catheters. • Insert arterial catheters or perform arterial punctures to obtain arterial blood samples. • Discharge patients from post-anesthesia care.