Nurse Anesthesiologist Name Change

I know... a rose by any other name...

but for those who care, what's your thoughts on the name change for CRNAs to nurse anesthesiologists? Is it good for the profession or just deceptive advertisement? Thanks!

[beachbabe86]

wtbcrna said:

1. Again your limited experience does not make you an expert on anesthesia.

2. I'm a retired USAF CRNA with over 15 years of anesthesia experience. I have taught clinical rotations for four different universities ( two military and two civilian). I have worked in and provided anesthesia in four different countries, and numerous states/hospitals . I had eight duty stations, two deployments (the last as surgery commander in Afghanistan), and numerous TDYs over 20 years. I have taught OMFS residents. I have taught numerous medical students. I did my initial residency training at the President's hospital (Walter Reed). 
Every fault you have seen or perceived with CRNAs has happened with MDAs, and in many cases is worse in our MDA colleagues. 
 

Thank you for your very impressive service to our country.

[subee, MSN, CRNA]

beachbabe86 said:

Did you and other CRNA students know everything on your first day in a room alone? Doubt that.

We weren't put in rooms for the first nine months of classes and then never alone until later in the second year of the program.  Residents are put into rooms July 2nd after they learn where the changing room is.  It certainly may be different in large teaching hospitals where anesthesiologists might be tripping over each other, but in the rest of the world that is not the case.  Our residents are assigned to a CRNA for about a month to learn the baby basics.  Then they are let loose.

[subee, MSN, CRNA]

subee said:

We weren't put in rooms for the first nine months of classes and then never alone until later in the second year of the program.  Residents are put into rooms July 2nd after they learn where the changing room is.  It certainly may be different in large teaching hospitals where anesthesiologists might be tripping over each other, but in the rest of the world that is not the case.  Our residents are assigned to a CRNA for about a month to learn the baby basics.  Then they are let loose.

And BTW, my first required me to work alone on evenings, call and weekends 2 weeks after graduation.  Extremely stressful but I had to be an anesthesia widget provider to survive in that job.  Things were different later when anew group of MDA'a came in with a large orthopedic group from Manhattan and we quadrupled our case numbers