Happy to help!

possibly, depends on how hard the nurse lobby pushes back.

I would begin by working 1099 independently for other established groups. Build a network and relationships with other anesthesia providers and surgeons. There are many CRNA practice owners in the space you will connect with or know of when you start in your program.

I'd look up the IFNA.

@@BoltCRNA thank you so much sir

I suppose CMS thought they could get us for a bargain? No good answer for this one which is why we're working on changing it.

So true.

Exactly.

CRNAs train for like 3 years in anesthesia... not 8.

@@Benboy887 it's a process to get them there and none of it can be skipped.

@@muthoni632 Right, but nursing education has nothing to do with anesthesia training... so the prior 5 years don't help with anesthesia. Medicine recognizes this, that's why it's 4-5 years of education post medical school.

If you see it like that, anesthesiology is 12-14 years and the training isn't comparable with CRNA training at all. it's 14 years of way more advanced training according to a total different model. CRNA's are nurses and don't train by the medical model. 8 years of CRNA doesn't even come close to someone in anesthesiology residence

Exactly. Stay tuned for pending progress.

They are not doing the same job. So no.

not the same scope at all. On the surface, the work they do in the Or is similar to what anesthesiologists do, they give meds, intubate, manage hypotension, etc. but in reality, they do not receive training on how to be pre-op consultants or how to take care of critically ill patients in dynamic situations. They do not pre-op patients for the most part, they wouldn’t have the training to cancel a case for example because a patient was in decompensated heat failure. They wouldn’t have the experience to insist on additional work-up for a semi-urgent case, and while some are trained to do procedures, many would not have the adequate training to perform neuraxial anesthesia or nerve blocks. Some continue to push for independent practise but we should all be very wary of that. They have their place in working under supervision and I have worked with many great CRNAs. When I had surgery, I had a CRNA in my room (with oversight from an attending) and I was perfectly ok with that because I’m a healthy patient and there was nothing complex about my anesthesia. However, if my 92 year old grandfather with cardiac and resp co-morbidities was having surgery, I’d like a physician to be in the room with him.