wtbcrna MSN, DNP, CRNA

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  1. https://nurseanesthesiologist.squarespace.com/thefacts
  2. Just because it bothers your ego does not change the facts that anesthesia has always been a nursing speciality long before it was medical speciality. The exact definition of anesthesiology is the...
  3. Anesthesiology is literally the study of anesthesia. Modern anesthesia was invented by a dentist and was a nursing speciality decades prior to it being a medical speciality so if you want to quote...
  4. wtbcrna

    Anti-Vaxxers Shut Down Immunization Events

    And you just summarized the whole antivaxxer agenda: Actual medical research by experts in the field of vaccines/vaccinations versus anecdotal
  5. Physician anesthesiologists do 1 yr internship and 3 years of residency. I’m not sure where you got the 5 years of residency from. Also, CRNA school is moving towards a required minimum of 3 years...
  6. The AANA has specific resources on working in dental offices doing sedation for CRNAs. It’s recommended to check state laws and consult with the AANA prior to providing sedation in a dental office...
  7. wtbcrna

    Anti-Vaxxers Shut Down Immunization Events

    Vaccine mandates in the USA have been around since the early 1800s. The US Supreme Court ruled in 1905 that states could mandate vaccines and that did not violate the constitution, so if this is a...
  8. I taught them clinical anesthesia. I know where you are going, and as military anesthesia CRNA we teach our students “we don’t share rooms”. It is 1:1 instruction. We are independent providers...
  9. CRNAs that have questions about the state requirements for anesthesia laws can contact the AANA state government affairs division. Disclaimer: I am not expert in dental office sedations laws even...
  10. wtbcrna

    How would you feel if a dentist was your boss?

    You are still just a random person like everyone else on the
  11. I read the Arizona boards requirement and it does appear that it is needed to employ a CRNA. You have to give a person a second to actually look at the information before responding over and
  12. Arizona and New Mexico 2/25. I will try to send you a pm picture. This is from the AANA, and no offense to your expertise I will take my professional organization word over a random person’s on the...
  13. Nice. DNAP, MSN, CRNA, adjunct faculty two universities, one ongoing research project/OB. 18+ years
  14. https://www.aana.com/states/state-association-advocacy-resources Arizona and New Mexico
  15. wtbcrna

    How would you feel if a dentist was your boss?

    You seem to profess expertise in all sorts of areas: Research, dentistry, anesthesia, NIH. A nurse with a PhD can and often does oversee clinical trials. Nursing PhDs and PhDs are highly variable in...
  16. wtbcrna

    How would you feel if a dentist was your boss?

    Yes, a nurse can be a “doctor”. It is a degree not a profession that makes someone a
  17. The AANA, as already stated, has a guide on with the up to date dental anesthesia requirements as it relates to CRNAs, if you have an official link that provides different data on all states and US...
  18. Do you know if that also applies for active duty military
  19. wtbcrna

    How would you feel if a dentist was your boss?

    And if a nurse was placed in charge of dental or medical research there would be an even larger outrage by their respective professional
  20. This is incomplete and incorrect. The laws vary by state and although dental boards can dictate dental practices they cannot dictate nursing practices. The dental permit for sedation is dependent on...
  21. wtbcrna

    Anti-Vaxxers Shut Down Immunization Events

    There are two countries south of the US border that had higher rates of measles than the US in the last year (Brazil and Venezuela). The majority of countries, besides the two mentioned, have basic...
  22. There are several potential questions to ask: Attrition rates and why they left the program (sometimes the percentage can be artificially high that has nothing to do with the school), how many and...
  23. wtbcrna

    Air Force initial rank

    I don’t know if the regs have changed but you should come in as an O3E. An MSN will qualify you to come as an O2, and a DNP an O3. Any RN experience up to 8 years used to be given 1/2 credit towards...
  24. The official reason AAs were invented was to address the supposed lack of anesthesia providers. The real reason AAs are in existence is to maintain anesthesiologists control of the anesthesia market....