Category Archive: COA

Apr 23

How to improve the quality of CRNA schools – a demand-side approach

In this brief paper I am going to put forward an idea of how I believe we, the 40,000 member organization known as the AANA, can act to assure the quality of the schools that are educating our future members. Most of the solutions proposed so far have been, as I define it below, Supply Side. While necessary, I don’t think supply side efforts can possibly come close to the power of Demand Side projects. This paper describes why.

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Feb 03

Should an Anesthesiologist sit on the NBCRNA Board?

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I am in favor of having an anesthesiologist and a surgeon on the NBCRNA board, as well as a public member and a hospital administrator member.

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Jan 29

White Paper: CRNAs and Pain Management

Title: CRNAs and Pain Management: One member’s opinion Author: Dan Simonson, CRNA, MHPA Created on: April 22, 2011 Download this white paper as a PDF It is now a little over one month since Noridian posted its statement concerning payment to CRNAs for pain management CPT codes. Because Noridian covers so many states in my …

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