Sherry Ames is an endoscopy nurse in a busy free-standing ambulatory surgery center.She is an RN with additional documented competency in providing an anesthesia modality to healthy patients having screening colonoscopies,bronchoscopies,and upper GI endoscopies.This modality will allow this patient population to tolerate potentially uncomfortable procedures while maintaining their own airway and be easily aroused from light sleep.Sherry is competent and legally qualified to provide which modality of anesthesia?

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Moderate sedation/analgesia (conscious sedation/analgesia)is defined as "a drug-induced depression of consciousness during which patients respond purposefully to verbal commands,either alone or accompanied by light tactile stimulation." No interventions are required to maintain a patent airway,and spontaneous ventilation is adequate.Cardiovascular function is usually maintained.The demand for this modality in the ambulatory surgical setting has resulted in increased use of non-anesthesia providers (usually professional registered nurses with additional training in administering conscious sedation/analgesia medications and monitoring these patients)for these functions.

Sherry Ames Is an Endoscopy Nurse in a Busy Free-Standing