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Okay...If you've read my posts you know that I will be retiring soon. Now is your chance to ask a practicing CRNA anything. 12 years of experience from solo rural independent to medical-direction urban ACT. Former Chief and Clinical Coordinator of SR...

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. I had no interest in obtaining a doctoral degree i...

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 making the money they once did. At the same time, anes...

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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 non-physician anesthesia providers and may serve as ...

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 for their families and have a nice career, but the...

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. Recently AAs started to call themselves CAA and 'A...

Thank you, Offlabel, for clarifying. Carry on.

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 today who brought us lunch and gave the pitch. My f...

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 tiresome.

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 profession is producing new graduates with major gaps in t...

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 stunningly obvious fact: AAs practice in urban/suburba...

Relatively rare.

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 concede. As you say. Carry on.

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 salient point? Medical direction is not equivalent to ...

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 are beyond 70. Anesthesia is a physical job in man...

Kind of you to post. Thank you. Keep that skepticism of the corporate model of healthcare, but also keep in mind that the vast majority of our patients haven't the slightest idea how our billion-dollar industry works. They often choose their surgeon....

Offlabel! Have a care, please. Not all locums providers are carrion-picking money-grubbers. I am well-liked, well-regarded, and well-compensated for good reason.

One step at a time! Good luck!

Congratulations on your acceptance! Re: change. Well. Frankly? I despised being treated like a halfwit on a daily basis when I was a staff CRNA in an ACT. So, leaving that behind was nice. I have had my own sole-proprietorship for years, so I simply ...

I must respectfully disagree. I am currently working alongside AAs and students from two AA programs in a large teaching facility. CRNAs and AAs function interchangeably in this facility. There are some CRNAs here that terrify me, and there are AAs h...

There is a teachable moment here for aspiring and newly-practicing CRNAs. When you work for a physician-owned practice, which is a business model rapidly being replaced by anesthesia management companies and hospital-employed anesthesia provider mode...

BRILLIANT. Period. The End.

I'm no help when it comes to verbal whatever-it-is you alluded to, but I am in graduate school currently. The academic ivory-tower non-applicable research I am forced to read is a daily eyeroll. This is a personal request, but could someone PLEASE do...

Kate, I cannot honestly answer that question. There are far too many individual variables. I will take a moment, though, to relay once again that CRNA programs are incredibly time-intensive...and your children are only young once. Consider carefully ...