Rate My Professor Vicente Gonzalez

Vicente Gonzalez, DNP, CRNA, APRN, serves as Assistant Chairperson and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Nurse Anesthesiology within Florida International University's Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing and Health Sciences. In this capacity, he contributes to the leadership and faculty of the Doctor of Nursing Practice Nurse Anesthesia program, located at the Miami campus in office MMC-AHC 3, Room 340. Gonzalez holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree and maintains certification as a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist with Advanced Practice Registered Nurse status. His tenure at FIU dates back to at least 2016, focusing on clinical education, simulation training, and program administration.

Gonzalez has engaged in scholarly activities pertinent to nurse anesthesia education and clinical practice. He co-authored the peer-reviewed article 'Objective Structured Clinical Examination as an educational initiative for summative simulation competency evaluation of first-year student registered nurse anesthetists' clinical skills,' published in the AANA Journal in December 2014 (82(6):419-25). This work details the implementation of an Objective Structured Clinical Examination to evaluate foundational clinical competencies prior to student clinical rotations. Additionally, in 2018, he co-authored posters presented at the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology meetings, including 'The Effectiveness of Combined Single-Shot Femoral/Sciatic Peripheral Nerve Block Versus a Single-Shot Femoral Nerve Block for Postoperative Pain Management in Patients Receiving Total Knee Arthroplasty' and 'Intravenous Ketamine as a Postoperative Opioid-Sparing Modality for Adults Undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty.' These contributions emphasize opioid-sparing strategies and enhanced recovery protocols. Gonzalez routinely chairs or serves as content expert for DNP projects on topics such as telehealth-assisted preanesthetic evaluations, dexmedetomidine for postoperative shivering, eye movement desensitization therapy for PTSD, quadratus lumborum blocks, methylene blue prophylaxis, opioid-sparing analgesics, pregabalin-dexamethasone combinations, and postoperative sore throat management. His ResearchGate profile records 8 citations. He is slated to speak at the AANA 2026 EDGE conference.