Independent CRNA Practice To change this brochure, replace our sample content with your own. Or, if you'd rather start from a clean slate, press the New Slide button on the Home tab to insert a new page. Now enter your text and pictures in the empty placeholders. If you need more placeholders for titles, subtitles or body text, copy any of the existing placeholders, then drag the new one into place. And did you notice we made fold marks for you? They are really light, but if you don’t like them showing on your brochure, select and delete them before you print. CRNAs provide most of all anesthesia delivered in rural counties. American Association of Nurse Anesthetists 222 S. Prospect Avenue Park Ridge, IL 60068-4037 (847)-692-7050 www.aana.com

Independent practice CRNAs are the safest and most cost-effective form of anesthesia providers a hospital facility can utilize. This is because CRNAs are cost effective and have an average salary that is almost $250,000 less than physician anesthesiologists. Therefore, facilities can often employ two CRNAs for the price of one anesthesiologist (2). Research has shown that CRNAs are just as safe as their physician colleagues when it comes to providing anesthesia. A 1999 report from the Institute of Medicine says anesthesia care is nearly 50 times safer than it was in the early 1980s. Numerous outcome studies have demonstrated that there is no difference in the quality of care provided by CRNAs and their physician counterparts (1). CRNAs administer 2/3 of anesthetics in the United States and provide almost all anesthesia delivered within rural communities. CRNAs are the primary providers of anesthesia care in rural America, enabling healthcare facilities in these medically underserved areas to offer obstetrical, surgical, pain management and trauma stabilization services. In some states, CRNAs are the sole providers in nearly 100 percent of the rural hospitals (1). Independent practicing CRNAs provide many benefits and are the most cost effective form of anesthesia providers for hospitals to use. American Association of Nurse Anesthetists. (2015, August 15). Certified registered nurse anesthetists fact sheet. Retrieved from http://www.aana.com/ ceandeducation/becomeacrna/Pages/N urse-Anesthetists-at-a-Glance.aspx Mackey, B., Hogan, P., Seifert, R., Moore, C., & Simonson, B. (2010). Cost effectiveness analysis of anesthesia providers 28(3), 159-69. Nursing Economic About us CRNAs were the first providers to actively administer anesthesia.   Nurses were the first trained providers to actively administer anesthesia. Nurses were chosen because of their focus on patient safety and the vigilance needed for proper anesthesia care. This began over 150 years ago during the Civil War (1). CRNAs are trained to practice independently and never are required to be supervised by an anesthesiologist. No federal or state law requires CRNAs to be supervised by an anesthesiologist. Facility specific policy dictates this, and CRNAs are trained to be independent, full practice providers (1). To change this brochure, replace our sample content with your own. Or, if you'd rather start from a clean slate, press the New Slide button on the Home tab to insert a new page. Now enter your text and pictures in the empty placeholders. If you need more placeholders for titles, subtitles or body text, copy any of the existing placeholders, then drag the new one into place. And did you notice we made fold marks for you? They are really light, but if you don’t like them showing on your brochure, select and delete them before you print.