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National Nurse Anesthetists Week
As the hands-on providers of more than 30 million anesthetics delivered in the United States each year, CRNAs touch the lives of countless patients and their families annually. In honor of this responsibility and privilege, and to celebrate a sterling record of patient safety that extends back to the late 1800s, nurse anesthetists all across America celebrate National Nurse Anesthetists Week every year in January.
CRNAs are the patients’ eyes and ears during surgery. They are the patients’ advocates when they can’t speak for themselves. It’s an awesome responsibility and a sacred trust upon which the profession has built its reputation for safety and quality care.
CRNAs take their patients through the entire operative process - inducing sleep, monitoring vital signs, adjusting anesthesia levels, and waking the patient after surgery.
Nurse anesthetists were the first anesthesia providers and CRNAs practice in every part of the country, deliver every type of anesthetic, and work in every setting in which anesthesia care is delivered.
