Grad stus in Canada

[Icenurse]

Hello there,

I´m educated in Iceland as a RN, Bsc. I´m wondering about grad studies in Canada. Can anyone tell me about anasthesia nursing in Canada? Is it similar to CRNA in the USA or more like european nurse anesthesia?

could you point me in the right direction of good anasthesia programs?

with kind regards,

Icenurse

[dishes, BSN, RN]

I am not sure about other provinces, but in Ontario nurse anesthesia education is relatively new. See link to the ontario ministry website for more information http://www.health.gov.on.ca/english/media/news_releases/archives/nr_07/mar/nr_20070317.html

dishes

[NotReady4PrimeTime, RN]

Ontario is the only province with a nurse-anaesthesia programme at the moment. Everywhere else anaesthesia is only provided by physicians except in select cases where the RN is administering the drugs at the direction of the physician who is in direct supervision at all times.

[canadiangradschoolrn]

In Canada the university of Toronto is the only program that provides a nurse anesthesia program. The program is about a year old. It is a post masters program for now, you need to already be a nurse practitioner before you can go into the program. After becoming a nurse practitioner you can go for the certificate course. This will change soon as the program develops. But this is the stage it is currently at