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Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) at a Glance

Nurse anesthetists have been providing anesthesia care to patients in the United States for nearly 150 years.

The credential CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist) came into existence in 1956. CRNAs are ...

By Rod Moser, PA, PhD


Although some medical providers like to consider themselves a different species from the rest of the population, doctors are human. Humans are imperfect; humans make mistakes. Someone once said that “Doctors bury their mistakes.” This is a bit macabre, but sadly, it is true. Some medical mistakes are fatal. When medical providers make little mistakes, ...

Found HERE

At first glance, Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Utah Gov. John Huntsman, Rep. Ron Paul and Gov. Rick Perry, both ...

To combat a primary care shortage, the National Institute for Health Care Reform suggests payment overhauls and expanding APNs' scope of practice.


By CAROLYNE KRUPA, amednews staff. Posted Jan. 13, 2012.

Efforts to increase the primary care work force, such as expanding medical school classes and ...

Editor's Note:


The following article is a compilation of the thoughts and opinions expressed by Medscape readers of the article "Looking Out for Our New Nurse Grads." Not every comment posted on Medscape is included here, and some comments were abbreviated and/or edited for clarity.


The Big Lie?


Without a doubt, the main source of frustration experienced by recently graduated and licensed but still unemployed nurses is what could be called "the big lie."In other words, the television commercials that encourage young people to become nurses -- and then abandon them for months (or years) without employment; and the educators who tell them that the associate's degree is perfectly adequate to guarantee employment, that they will have their pick of jobs when they graduate, and that there is plenty of time to get a BSN later on. Who knows whether it is greed, ignorance, or wishful thinking that underlies the fairy tales told to nursing students about their future job prospects? Whatever the motivation, the disillusionment of our new grads is palpable. The jobs they expected after all of their hard work just haven't materialized, and some grads are getting pretty desperate.


Will Work for Experience


The strongest motivator for the working population is money, but for some newly licensed registered nurses, getting valuable clinical experience seems to be taking precedence over the paycheck. Without that experience, the ...

A Maryland family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against an anesthesiologist and a surgeon after their teenage daughter died 10 days after a routine surgical wisdom tooth extraction, ...

Found on Anesthesiology News. Full article can be read HERE


A new survey paints an at-times alarming picture of injection practices among anesthesiologists ...

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Fellow AANA members,


I am working on a paper to present to you that outlines my concerns, beliefs, and positions with regard to the NBCRNA CPC issue. As I am doing my research, I have just come across some documents that have radically changed my view of the situation - so much so that I feel compelled to share them widely among the members. Let me give you the URLs for the documents so that you can download them and review them yourselves.


The first is the American Board Of Nursing Specialties Accreditation (ABSNC) Standards and are referenced below.


The second is the Institute for Credentialing Excellence (ICE) Standards, available at


<http://www.credentialingexcellence.o...ls/0/STANDARDS - Updated January 2010.pdf>


Let me say that ...