Alabama
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Missouri
New Mexico (university hospital settings)
Ohio
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Vermont
North Carolina
Colorado
Michigan
New Hampshire
Texas
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Now, if you are from say, Oregon, and you want to work there 3 years from now, then you will probably be out of luck. 10 years from now....who knows. But I do know that every, and I mean EVERY MD from states that have no AAs that I talked to at the ASA meetings was asking how they could get AAs in their hospitals. Its people like WAlein who are the reason this is so. It seems like a LOT of MDs would much rather work with AAs than CRNAs d/t this type of mentality.
Bottom line, if you already have a pre-med type bachelors with the required pre-reqs to AA school completed, AND you are happy to work in one of the above listed states, then I would say go the AA route. If you are fresh out of high school or early college and you need to spend a few years to complete a bachelors anyway, then yeah, go for a BSN and CRNA route cause you DO have more places where you can work currently. Just make sure you can handle those nursing theory courses .
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