Clinical Doctorate in Anesthsia

Try this thread. it is a recent thread about clinical doctorates.

http://allnurses.com/forums/showthre...ight=doctorate

Bradley University in Peoria, IL has already started the DNSc degree for the CRNA program.

Iowa will be starting their clinical doctorate program in the fall of 2006. Notice however, Bradley is starting their DNSc program for CRNAs...Rush offers a DNP, Iowa a DNP...Columbia a DrNP and University of Kentucky a DNP...where is this gtetting us? Nowhere....i p[ersonally think its an irrelavant idea. It will get no more respect or independence for the CRNAs...the things incoprporated in the program will do very little more for anesthesia education. All it does is make a program that is long longer and just as qualifie3d. I think CRNA programs shold spend their time increasing the amount of clinical time or didactice anesthesia education...not the other things they will be doing for the DNP.

Oh dear. A Clinical doctorate!!! I'm really excited to hear about this. So CRNAs would then be PhDs. Hmmmmmmm. The MDAs won't like this one bit!

Actually...not even PhDs...those are doctors of philsophy...this is a doctor of nursing practice....different...philosophy...practice. The MDAs love this one....read student doctor...its there.

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With all things being equal....why wouldn't a DSN/DNSc/DPN/DNP/DrNP in anesthesiology be equivalent to that of a MD/DO?

If each doctorate in anesthsia program is effectively structured didactic & clinically...WHY NOT? This is suppose to be a *clinical* doctorate....right? It would require at least 2.5 to 5 years post Masters...depending on the program's full or part-time program. Heck...medical school is only four years post bacholer's plus those added residency years. The only difference in education/training would be one is under the nursing model & the other would be under the medical model. Once one get that clinical doctorate with the appropriate clinical training...they *should* be on par with anaesthesiologists! Otherwise ~ what's the point of the clinical doctorate?

Cheers!
Moe

I don't see the point in it myself. I am hesitant for the following reasons:

1. Unless someone is wanting to do strictly hearts, neuro, or trauma and the individual school focuses in on this area during the extended clinical portion, then what is the point of the extended clinical in the first place?

2. It is not like we come out of the Master's school unprepared as it now stands.

3. Think about it, if you were a person who didn't want to be a MDA, but were considering AA or CRNA, which looks better you to time-wise if the CRNA route goes full-blown doctorate? Certainly the AA route looks better. Two years post bacc and boom, doing anesthesia. For those of you not familiar with AAs, this does not mean this doesn't concern you. It does.

To the above poster, with all due respect, calling yourself a "dr" or using such title in the clinical arena, unless you are a physician, to a patient is misleading at best. I am pro-CRNA all the way, trust me, but saying CRNA school and MD school are the same is propsosterous. Calling yourself a "dr" and saying the education is the same really comes across as being a doc-wannabe and trying to be something you are not. What some of these nursing theorist, educators, etc. must realize is that parading around proclaiming these two above statements does not "advance the profession", it makes us look like baffoons.
I am proud to be a CRNA and actually hate wearing the white lab coat that our school dictates. It is amazing how people change around you in attitude and it quite honestly sickens me. What I believe is accurate is to say that CRNAs provide an equal service as MDAs when in the OR suite. We have our studies of patient outcomes (actually conducted by a MD for that matter, otherwise known as the Pine Study) and the MDAs have theirs to stand by.