A Registered Nurse Working in a Busy Free-Standing Ambulatory Surgery

A registered nurse working in a busy free-standing ambulatory surgery center has additional documented competency in providing an anesthesia modality to healthy patients having screening colonoscopies,bronchoscopies,and upper gastrointestinal (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.The nurse is competent and legally qualified to provide which modality of anesthesia?

A) Monitored anesthesia care (MAC)
B) Local infiltration
C) Moderate sedation/analgesia
D) Procedural narcosis

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