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    CRNA - upset about article Archived Message

    Posted by AA Fighter on March 11, 2009, 3:30 pm

    CRNA comments on AA press release. AA's please comment on the press release by clicking the link at the end of these responses..

    Unresponsible
    As a CRNA, I have to say that the "facts" Mr. Green stated in his press release are mostly unfounded. Many of the statements don't merit a response. However, I will say that I don't want anyone without a healthcare background taking care of my family members, or any patient for that matter. As a Critical Care Nurse prior to anesthesia school I know I obtained invaluable experience that when combined with my anesthesia education, helps me to care for my patients at an entirely different level than an AA.
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    Mr. Green, as an RN I would have hoped that you would support your fellow nurses. How can anyone without the education & experience of a healthcare provider improve the quality of care standard? CRNAs have delivered outstanding, quality care for longer than most of us have been alive. Thankfully, true fact speaks for itself.
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    Lori Dowell RN, MSN, CRNA @ 2009-03-10 21:00:27 [ID:177458]

    The CRNA Truth
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    Mr. Green,
    You are painting what seems to be a very uneducated picture of what it takes to be a CRNA. What you fail to mention in your press release, hopefully because you are not aware, is that entrance into CRNA programs has become so competitive that most, if not all admitted aplicants have qualifications and credentials far beyond the minimum required for program admission. Admitted applicants today are certainly of above average intelligence and for you to suggest otherwise is irresponsible. In addition, you suggested that CRNAs have not had real science courses, well Sir, I personally had taken Organic chemistry, Inorganic chemistry, Biology 1&2, Microbiology, Statistics, Anatomy and Physiology 1&2, Advanced Pharmacology courses, and a Pathophysiology course,(which incidentally was taught by an older physician who didn't like nursing students in his class), and these were the prerequisites to get the nursing program, prior to the nurse anesthesia program. I was the president of my nursing class, I held a position in the state student organization, and I graduated with honors being inducted into both Nursing and Academic Honor Societies. This was while I held a part-time job in the local hospital ICU gaining valuable clinical experience as a patient care tech. I went on to complete a rigorous Critical Care Nurse Internship program and gained ten years of valuable experience in ICU, CTICU, and ER nursing before applying to Nurse Anesthesia school. I am including the current admission requirements to the school I attended two years ago, as well as the course description of the school. And Mr. Green, I can assure you the program was difficult, rigorous, and exhausting. The program was 12 months of didactic course work and 17 months of dedicated clinical OR education and advanced anesthesia course work. I'm not sure where you are getting your information that CRNAs are not educated with adequate OR experience but you are dead wrong!!!! And as is typically the case, it was a mistake for you to make such sweeping generalities in the referenced article. You have certainly misrepresented my personal educational background as a CRNA and that of of the colleagues I have the pleasure to work with on a daily basis.
    Making the argument for the use of Anesthesiology Assistants should be able to rest on its own merits, not require an unwarranted publication of untruths about a profession that has provided 150 years of high quality, and ever increasingly safe anesthesia.


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