Info on current issues of CRNAs with AAs

you can try aana website, or the louisiana assoc of nurse anesth. website (lana) they just went through this issue a couple of months ago.
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[quote=vinnysca]Hi all,
I wanted to know if any of you (current SRNAs/CRNAs) can suggest any sites/references/book/journals from which I could find information on the current issues that CRNAs might have with AAs. I am writing an "Issues in nurse anesthesia" paper for my class at YSU. I found a few articles on what AAs are, what they do, etc., but nothing particular about how they affect CRNAs. Any info would help.

Thanks.

V.

Hello Vince,
There is extreme animosity between the two parties listed, especially when they get the same compensation for doing the same job. There is a basic difference in that obviously, the AA does not usually have the nursing backround and therefore is missing a vital element of the entire package. "You can train a monkey to administer Anesthesia but it takes a trained professional to know what to do when things go wrong". The AA has an undergraduate degree in anything from biophysics to pharmacokinetics and then does twenty-four mos. training in Anesthesia school as a graduate program. Two programs that I know of, Case Western in Cleveland and Emory in Atlanta. The AA programs were started early in the 1970's due to the extreme shortage of Anesthesia personnel and I guess the idea never really took off. The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati,Ohio uses the AA almost exclusively and for the most part these individuals are very bright/gifted people. They have had their issues as a profession but who hasn't. I guess you could look at it both ways. I have never had any problems recovering the patients that they have gassed and thought for the most part, they did a pretty descent job.
See ya,g