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Jan 18, 2018 - (Monroe & St. Antoine Streets) to mid-town where it became part of the Detroit Medical Center. In 198
For Immediate Release: January 18, 2018

Contact: Jennifer Dickie Phone: 734-477-0328 Email:[email protected]

Nurse Anesthetists: Always There Caring for America Wayne State University Program of Nurse Anesthesia (WSUNAP) Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists celebrate National CRNA Week Detroit, MI— Administering anesthesia across the United States for more than 150 years, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) from Wayne State University Program of Nurse Anesthesia (WSUNAP) and thousands of their colleagues from around the country are celebrating this year’s 19th annual National CRNA Week campaign taking place, January 21-27, 2018. With a history spanning back to the Civil War, nurse anesthetists have remained at the head of the table every moment of their patients’ procedures, administering their anesthetics, monitoring their vital signs, and helping to ensure that each year millions of patients receive the safest anesthesia care possible. “As CRNAs we administer anesthesia to patients undergoing cardiac, neurological, oral, and labor and delivery surgeries just to name a few. Regardless of the setting, nurse anesthetists apply same high standards of care are applied,” Greg Bozimowski, CRNA, DNP, President Michigan Association of Nurse Anesthetists. “It is a privilege to be a part of a profession that is dedicated to providing a safe anesthetic and has historically played a pivotal role in every facet of anesthesia advancement.” Nurse anesthetists are advanced practice registered nurses who administer more than 34 million anesthetics in the United States each year. Practicing in every setting in which anesthesia is available, CRNAs practice with a great deal of autonomy, and are the sole anesthesia professionals in the vast majority of rural hospitals. As the main hands-on provider of anesthesia care in both military and civilian settings, CRNAs practice in every setting in which anesthesia is administered. That includes but is not limited to hospital operating and delivery rooms; ambulatory surgical centers; the offices of dentists, podiatrists, ophthalmologists, plastic surgeons; pain management centers, and within the U.S. Military, Public Health Services, and Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities. National CRNA Week was established by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA), and was created to encourage CRNAs to take the opportunity to educate the public about anesthesia safety, questions to ask prior to undergoing surgery, and the benefits of receiving anesthesia care from a nurse anesthetist. To learn more about the AANA visit www.aana.com. The Wayne State University Program of Nurse Anesthesia (WSUNAP) began in 1963 as an 18-month certificate program at Detroit General Hospital. By 1972, the program had become 24-months in length under the leadership of John F. Garde CRNA and Celestine Harrigan CRNA and thereafter became the second program in the nation to offer a baccalaureate degree.

Through the 1970s and 1980s several changes occurred as the program moved from the Greektown area (Monroe & St. Antoine Streets) to mid-town where it became part of the Detroit Medical Center. In 1984, with an average class size of 24-students, the program expanded its curriculum to a post-baccalaureate level offering a Master of Science degree in anesthesia. In 2001, WSUNAP in collaboration with Children's Hospital of Michigan, a Pediatric fellowship was developed for graduates and CRNAs culminating in a Post-Masters Certificate in Pediatric Anesthesia. A similar collaborative approach was used with departments of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Physiology to offer a track for CRNAs and post-graduates to pursue doctoral degrees in Pharmacology or Physiology. In 2004, combined with its long-running annual "Senior Student Seminar," the program celebrated its 40th year of anesthesia education. Then again in 2013, the program celebrated a two-day Senior Seminar and 50-years of education excellence by the WSU Nurse Anesthesia Program in the city of Detroit. Now as 2019 approaches, the program will again move its curriculum forward by offering its Doctorate of Nurse Anesthesia Practice (DNAP) curriculum. This is in keeping with the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia program's mandate that all programs provide a clinical doctorate by 2022. The WSUNAP is dedicated to achieving professional competency in its graduates and the Program believes self-awareness, an appropriate set of values and beliefs all positively affect relationships with patients and other members of the health care team. Graduates are prepared to assume diverse leadership positions in a variety of health care organizations, academic departments and professional organizations around the nation. Wayne State University nurse anesthesia program graduates are well respected in the community and among health care practitioners and facilities around the country. OUTREACH Activities: Annual Medical Mission to the Philippines For the last 12-years 8-10 Senior Anesthesia students accompany faculty CRNAs to the Philippines for 2weeks, to participate in a medical (surgical) mission to the local populace. While there, they administer hundreds of anesthetics in conjunction with physicians/surgeons to those that come from hundreds of miles and would otherwise not have any medical/surgical care. Some of the surgical procedures in which the students provide anesthesia care are: cleft lip/palate repair, hernia repairs, and thyroidectomies. "Apple Days" at The College Annually, 200-300 high school students from the Detroit-area descend upon the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences for a full day of career guidance. Each of the programs at the college participate in tours, brief lectures and anecdotal talks from students presently enrolled at the college. The Nurse Anesthesia students provide tours of the Human Patient Simulator laboratory, the Distance Education classroom and answer questions the students might have. This annual event provides inner city high school students a first-hand look at university life and hopefully provides the motivation necessary for them to excel in their schools when preparing for college-level science courses. Nurse Anesthesia "Information Sessions"

Since 2015, the Program of Nurse Anesthesia has offered "Informational Sessions" for those who might be interested in a career in nurse anesthesia. These sessions have been well attended (30-35 participants) and interested parties are usually either Registered Nurses or Nursing Students.

About the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists Founded in 1931 and located in Park Ridge, Ill., and Washington, D.C., the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) is the professional organization representing more than 52,000 Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) and student registered nurse anesthetists across the United States. As advanced practice registered nurses and anesthesia specialists, CRNAs administer approximately 43 million anesthetics to patients in the United States each year and are the primary providers of anesthesia care in rural America. In some states, CRNAs are the sole anesthesia professionals in nearly 100 percent of rural hospitals. For more information, visit www.aana.com and www.future-of-anesthesia-caretoday.com and follow @aanawebupdates on Twitter.

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