NURS 9860
Pharmacotherapeutics in Nurse Anesthesia Practice · 1 instructor on record · 5 sections
That is the class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it. Who taught it, and how each of them scored, is the board below — that is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between.
Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question for this class only — students answer it positively about courses that stretched them, so it measures intellectual challenge and NOT grading, workload or quality. Almost every BC class scores high on it, which is why it is shown as a rank rather than a score.
Boston College reports workload for this class only as one of five bands, not as a number of hours, and it does not publish what the bands mean — so this site will not translate it into hours. Higher means more work, which is not the same as worse.
This course is a study of pharmacotherapy as applied to nurse anesthesia practice. Chemistry and biochemistry form the foundation of the pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic, and pharmacogenomic principles discussed. Medications common to nurse anesthesia practice are presented, and individualized drug selection is emphasized. Instructor and student-led simulation experiences provide the opportunity to apply theory to practice involving complex decision-making.
| Instructor | Overall | Workload | Challenge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Susan EmeryNursing | 955 records | 100th | 93rd |
There is no ranking to read here: Susan Emery is the only instructor with evaluation records for NURS 9860, so the number is a record, not a position.
Also taught by Susan Emery
6 other classes| Class | Instructors | Course score |
|---|---|---|
| NURS 9853Nurse Anesthesia Clinical Practice III | 310 records | 90 |
| NURS 9870Nurse Anesthesia Care for Patients with Coexisting Diseases | 58 records | 84 |
| NURS 9868Cardiovascular Physiology and Pathophysiology for Nurse Anesthesia Practice | 15 records | 94 |
| NURS 7691Nurse Anesthesia IV | 34 records | 86 |
| NURS 7693Nurse Anesthesia V | 34 records | 85 |
| NURS 9862Foundations of Nurse Anesthesia Practice | 24 records | 88 |
Other NURS classes
All of them| Class | Instructors | Course score |
|---|---|---|
| NURS 1010Professional Development Seminar | 174 records | 84 |
| NURS 2231Adult Health Nursing I Clinical Laboratory | 1372 records | 79 |
| NURS 2121Nursing Health Assessment Across the Lifespan Clinical Laboratory | 1946 records | 88 |
| NURS 9906DNP Project Seminar 2 | 1133 records | 71 |
| NURS 9904DNP Project Seminar 1 | 1130 records | 74 |
| NURS 4260Population Health Nursing Theory | 524 records | 68 |
The line
All 13 items · means across 5 recordsBar length is the rank against every comparable record we hold, not the raw score: BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so a raw-scale bar would be nearly full on every row and would tell you nothing. Every bar is one ink colour — nothing here is graded green or red. The hatched bars are not ratings at all: a higher number on either describes a different course, not a better one.
Game log
5 sections · newest first| Instructor | Term | Sec | Instr | Course | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Susan Emery | Fall 2025 | 01 | 90 | 84 | 100 |
| Susan Emery | Fall 2024 | 01 | 93 | 92 | 100 |
| Susan Emery | Spring 2024 | 01 | 92 | 84 | 100 |
| Susan Emery | Spring 2023 | 01 | 99 | 99 | 100 |
| Susan Emery | Spring 2022 | 01 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
How to read this boardInstructors are ranked on their record in this class only, never on their average across everything they teach. Scores are out of 100 — Boston College's 1–5 agreement scale, ×20, the way these numbers were printed for years. Workload is BC's own five-band figure, not a number of hours, and is shown as a rank. A dash means the question was not reported, and is never a zero.