Carterjcr - Apologies, but I am not the right resource for your question re: DNP/DNAP. I obtained an MSN in early 2000, well before the transition to doctoral preparation for allied health providers....
Followup re: overheard conversation. It provides such insight into the politics and economics of mixed practices that I am going to post a few general takeaways: 1. The anesthesiologists are not...
FROM THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ANESTHESIOLOGIST ASSISTANTS WEBSITE FAQs 4. What are the differences between Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) and CAAs? Although both are considered to be equivalent clinical...
After overhearing a frank conversation between anesthesiologists and administration, I can no longer support the AA role. I was naive. I feel empathy for AAs as people who want to make a good living...
I am not concerned about competition with AAs, I'm concerned that they are a tool of the ASA to diminish the CRNA role. CRNAs are limited to an AA role typically in practices with both CRNAs and AAs....
I'm a third-year SRNA currently looking at jobs. I fall into the millennial generation. I have a very different perspective than the one you describe, as do many of my classmates. We had a recruiter...
We agree we have different perspectives. "physician anesthesiologist" is a ridiculous title advanced by the ASA. The politics in this specialty and rhetoric from the ASA are
1. Are you citing data that surveyed the majority opinion? 2. Your experience differs from mine. 3. Impossible to apply that statement to all situations/settings in which AAs work. 4. Our own...
Honestly? Both No and Yes. I will give one example of each. There are many more. 1. Because CRNAs who are discussing the fact that CRNAs can practice independently and AAs cannot are missing this...
Offlabel - Correct. My interpretation. Not your words. That said... This statement of yours is a bit harsh, don't you think? "If you simply value procedures and paychecks" Otherwise. Agreed. I...
To be clear: the halfwit ACT practice was CRNA/anesthesiologist medical-direction model employed by a large corporate anesthesia management company. Your two statements are unrelated. What is the...
Decades and decades. I know many anesthetists who are still practicing well into their 60s, though very few of those are working full-time, and none of them are taking call. I cannot think of any who...