Info on current issues of CRNAs with AAs

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Specializes in Nurse Practitioner/CRNA Pain Mgmt.

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.

SRNA

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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.

d

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Specializes in Nurse Practitioner/CRNA Pain Mgmt.
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.

d

Thanks! I'll check it out.

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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.

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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

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