School of State-certified Nurse Anesthesiologists

The school is authorized by the President of the Regional Council of Normandy to welcome a class of 17 students.

The school is run by a director, approved by the president of the Normandy Region . It is responsible for the approvals and operating authorization of the school.

The General Directorate of the Regional Health Agency monitors the quality of training and the management of competitions and exams

AFNOR certifies that the CAEN University Hospital Center has been judged to comply with the requirements for carrying out training activities.

Certificate No. 2022/98983.1

Order of July 23, 2012 relating to training leading to the State Diploma of Nurse Anesthetist, modified by the order of January 17, 2017

Decree No. 2017-316 of March 10, 2017 relating to nursing acts falling within the competence of state-certified nurse anesthetists 

Decree No. 2014-1511 of December 15, 2014 relating to health diplomas conferring the master's degree

The training framework for nurse anesthetists aims to professionalize the training course so that the student gradually builds the elements of the skills expected for the exercise of the profession.

The student is led to become an autonomous, responsible and reflective practitioner, that is to say a professional capable of analyzing any health situation, making decisions within the limits of his role, and carrying out interventions alone. and in collaboration with the resuscitation anesthesiologist in the field of anesthesia, resuscitation and emergency.

The student develops resources in theoretical and methodological knowledge, gesture skills and relational skills. It completes your knowledge, develops your skills and enriches your professional project.

The student develops his critical and questioning capacity, conducts reflection in the field of ethics, safety, quality and professional responsibility and gradually acquires the autonomy necessary to take up the role of nurse anesthetist. .

Trained in clinical reasoning and critical thinking, trained professionals are competent, capable of integrating new knowledge more quickly and adapting to complex situations in the field of anesthesia, resuscitation and emergency.

RNCP file

The purpose of the training is to train a nurse anesthetist, that is to say, a responsible and autonomous nurse, particularly competent in the field of anesthesia care, this field including the pre, per and post-interventional and emergency care and resuscitation.

With regard to the law of February 11, 2005 for equal rights and opportunities, participation and citizenship of people with disabilities, the principles of non-discrimination and accessibility are applied to training.

A disability representative is in contact with all the paramedical training structures at the CAEN University Hospital. Concerned students can contact her via the address: pfp-sec-dir@chu-caen.fr

Vigilant point: 

There is no obligation for the student to communicate their disability situation to their training structure, either at the time of the competitive examination or during the course of their studies.

The disability situation of a candidate or student is confidential even if it may be a secret shared between professionals of the training structure.

Training financed either by health establishments, or by OPCOs , or by Pôle Emploi, etc.

Before entering the school, you must make sure of the method of financing your training and of your resources for the duration of your training.

Prices :

The educational cost amounts to:

• Personal funding: €8,200 per year
• Employer or OPCO : €9,000 per year

• Theoretical training and guided work time of 36 weeks spread over each semester in several fields: human sciences, physical sciences, fundamentals of anesthesia, exercise of the IADE profession , etc.
• 58-week clinical training : internships are distributed alternately from the 1st year in all areas of IADE activity over periods of 6 to 3 weeks.
• Annual leave of up to 25 working days, the dates of which are determined by the school management.

Educational project

Start : working day of week 40 of year N
End : end of September of year N+2

Alternation 23-25

Alternation 24-25

The CHU Caen Normandie IADE school offers many simulated activities within the NORSIMS Health Simulation Center . They mainly break down into 2 types:

• procedural simulation, which consists of learning and repeating a specific procedure;
• high-fidelity simulation, which involves using a high-fidelity dummy to recreate emergency situations in a reconstituted work environment (operating theatre, recovery room, out-of-hospital) .

IADE students from Caen Normandy University Hospital have the opportunity to develop healthcare research. Indeed, many of them are part of an approach inspired by biomedical sciences. This method usually involves the development of a research protocol validated by the committee for the protection of people enrolling in a Hospital Nursing and Paramedical Research Program.

The training is provided by trainers health executives, a nursing (è) s anesthetists of state graduates, who have various professional experience and university titles: university diplomas, licenses, masters.

The permanent trainers work in collaboration with university teachers and professionals in the field. Since 2013, students have benefited from a university digital platform that allows them access to educational content remotely.

speaker lists 

Support for students revolves around the reflective analysis of learning situations allowing the implementation of transposable and therefore integrated skills.

By associating reflective practice with the analysis of practices, the IADE student questions himself, and works on the co-construction of the meaning given to the practice and/or the improvement of professional techniques. The training managers therefore seek to mobilize the student's capacities for analysis, self-assessment and constructive criticism.

Support is both individual and collective for the professional research dissertation and begins from the 1st ^year of the Master's degree.

Pedagogical support is organized throughout the training by the teaching team. Each student benefits from at least one internship supervision during semesters 2 and 3 of the training.

During the training, the pedagogical follow-up is also individual and collective. They can be organized on a regular basis according to the stages of training and at the request of the student or the referent trainer.

The validation of the training is based on a continuous evaluation system. Each validation of teaching unit and each internship is valued by one or more European Credits ( ECTS ):

• 30 ECTS for teaching units per year of training,
• 30 ECTS for practical internship training per year of training.

Assessment methods: Individual or collective

Online homework submissions, table assignments, oral presentations (in groups or individually) of work, simulated situations, analysis of clinical situations.

The nurse anesthetist school is part of a training center where are grouped:

• initial training : nurse, paramedic, nursing assistant, medical electroradiology technician
• specialty training : operating room nurse, childcare worker
• the training of health managers
• medical training : medicine, pharmacy, maieutics, speech therapy

The grouping of these training courses on a single site makes it possible to develop shared and innovative educational activities: lessons and multi-professional internships.

The building is accessible to people with disabilities. A disability adviser is in contact with all the training structures. The students concerned can contact her via the school secretariat.

Internships are carried out in sectors approved by the school and take place mainly at the CAEN University Hospital and in hospitals in the region by agreement.

At the request of a student, an internship in another establishment can be accepted if it meets the “qualifying” internship criteria defined by the school according to the recommendations of the training framework.

Each internship is recognized as qualifying by the establishment of a welcome booklet specifying the training offer (currently being developed in the institutions) and an internship agreement.

The internship course includes 34 weeks of compulsory disciplines (provides training guidelines, appendix III of the decree of July 23, 2012). For the remaining 24 weeks:

• 8 weeks will be of the student's choice: optional internship responding to the student's project and the training requirements: qualifying internship.
• 16 weeks will be distributed at the choice of the teaching team. For students whose professional background includes little or no experience:
  • In intensive care, the teaching team will be able to organize a 3 or 4 week internship in this discipline as part of their practical training course;
  • In SSPI, here too, a one-week course (as part of the pain course: compulsory discipline) may be offered by the teaching team

The student is placed under the direct responsibility of a resuscitator anesthesiologist, an internship supervisor, a tutor or a nurse anesthetist supervisor or any other medical or paramedical professional for internships outside the operating blocks. operatives.

lists of internship sites

The State Diploma is acquired by obtaining 120 ECTS corresponding to the acquisition of the 7 skills of the reference system. The validation of these teaching units is attested by a half-yearly jury.

The Regional Directorate for the Economy, Employment, Labor and Solidarity ( DREETS ) guarantees the certification of the State Diploma.

In accordance with the decree of September 23, 2014 relating to the creation of a “Diploma Supplement” annex , students have, at the end of the training, a Master's degree delivered by the University of Caen. They also benefit from a “supplement to the state diploma of nurse anesthetist which “ aims to provide independent and sufficient data to improve international “transparency” and fair academic and professional recognition of qualifications (diplomas, academic achievements, certificates, etc…)”.

The nurse anesthetist works mainly in the operating room but also in the recovery room, in the emergency services. He or she intervenes during certain types of transport ( SAMU · SMUR ) .

He or she can progress to the functions of health executive after 4 years of professional practice.

The Caen school is approved for 17 students. It is referenced DATADOCK n°6361 and certified QUALIOPI n°2022/98983.1.

The stated admission conditions comply with the decree of July 23, 2012 relating to training leading to the State diploma of Nurse Anesthesiologist.

The candidate must provide proof of a minimum of 2 years of full-time equivalent practice in the nursing profession on 1 ^January of the year of the competition.

Admission to training is by competition after submitting an online application via the CHU Caen Normandie competition :

• Opening of registrations: Monday, November 10, 2025
• Closing registrations: Friday January 23, 2026 · 5 p.m. (mail of the postal post)
• Admissibility written test: Tuesday March 03, 2026
• Oral admission test: Tuesday March 31 and Wednesday April 1, 2025
• Back to school: Week 40

All the additional documents are to be supplied complete and not stapled before January 23, 2026 included (postmark picking up) .

Drop off at the reception of the Pôle des Formations et de Recherche en Santé or in the mailbox located at the entrance to the building at the following address: PFRS,
2 rue des Rochambelles, 14000 Caen
or by post to the school of 'IADE CHU Caen Normandy Avenue de la Côte de Nacre CS 30001 14033 Caen Cedex 9

The prerequisites presuppose a mastery of the program leading to the State diploma in nursing ( Cf. decree of January 31, 2009 relating to the State diploma in nursing ).

Applicants should have a thorough knowledge of anatomy, physiology, hygiene, nursing, pharmacology, and hospital and occupational legislation.

They understand :

• a written and anonymous eligibility test (duration: 2 hours) , to assess the professional and scientific knowledge of the candidate with reference to the training program for the State Nursing Diploma, as well as his writing skills. Candidates who have obtained a mark greater than or equal to the average are declared eligible
• an oral admission test (of the same duration for all candidates) , to assess the candidate's ability to decline clinical reasoning and manage a care situation, to analyze the skills developed during his professional experience , to present his professional project and to follow the training. A mark at least equal to the average is required.

CHU Caen Normandie Competition platform and displayed at the School of Nurse Anesthesiologists of the CHU Caen Normandie.

• Eligibility : Thursday 05 March 2026 · 12h
• Admission : Thursday April 02, 2026 · 12h

The results of the admission tests are valid for the following school year. However, a one-year, non-renewable postponement of schooling is granted for the following reasons: in the event of maternity leave, non-financial support, absence of availability.

Each year, the school offers preparation for the entrance examination to the nurse anesthetist school, the duration, dates and content of the sessions of which is defined in the preparatory training sheets available below.

“Preparation for the written test for eligibility in IADE school ” on January 27 and 28, 2025 (2 days).

“Preparation for the oral test for admission to an IADE ” on 06/03/2025, only open to those eligible (1 day).