Each year, CRNA Week is an opportunity for us to thank our amazing certified registered nurse anesthetists. Our organization heavily relies on the expertise of our CRNAs for anesthesia and pain management services. At Amberwell, we have four full-time, credentialed nurse anesthetists who are vitally important to delivering exceptional and compassionate care.
Amberwell CRNAs (from left to right)
- Rebecca Boust, CRNA
- Micah Reece, DNP, CRNA
- David Hart, DNP, CRNA, NSPM-C
- Jamie Garrett, CRNA
The following are some exciting recent developments for the certified registered nurses at Amberwell:
- January 2021: Amberwell Atchison became an affiliate training site for the University of Kansas Nurse Anesthesia Education Program. Amberwell Atchison is one of 24 clinical affiliate training sites for the 108 SRNAs enrolled in the nurse anesthetist program at the University of Kansas.
- April 2021: Amberwell lead CRNA David Hart, DNP, CRNA, NSPM-C, returned from instructing at the University of South Florida’s Advanced Pain Management Fellowship Workshop in Tampa, Florida. The Advanced Pain Management Fellowship is a post-graduate certification that trains the best and brightest nurse anesthetists in the concepts of pain, pharmacologic management, assessment, radiologic studies, interventional approaches, and the psychologic aspects of pain management.
- September 2021: We welcomed Jamie Garrett, CRNA, as a full-time provider after she spent several years providing anesthesia services in the gastrointestinal field.
- October 2021: Amberwell lead CRNA David Hart, DNP, CRNA, NSPM-C, was chosen to become an affiliate instructor for the University of Kansas Nurse Anesthesia Education Program. He will be instructing student nurse anesthetists in regional and peripheral pain management techniques.
- December 2021: Amberwell lead CRNA David Hart, DNP, CRNA, NSPM-C, attended training in Tampa, Florida on an innovative procedure to reduce knee pain before total knee replacements. This is an exciting method to control pain postoperatively and throughout rehabilitation.
Our CRNAs are excited for the new year and look forward to caring for our family and friends in Atchison, Hiawatha, and surrounding areas.
Interesting Facts about CRNAs
- CRNAs are advanced practice registered nurses who safely administer more than 50 million anesthetics to patients each year in the United States, according to an American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA) membership survey. Nurse anesthesiology is the first profession to own the responsibility of anesthesia delivery. Since its very beginning 150 years ago, the administration of anesthesia by nurses has been essential in caring for patients safely, comfortably, and compassionately.
- CRNAs are highly educated, highly trained professionals. They complete eight to ten years of healthcare and anesthesia education and more than 12,000 hours of clinical training prior to graduating with an advanced degree as an expert in the field of anesthesiology. CRNAs serve their country as full practice, independent anesthesia providers in every branch of the military, on the front lines in combat-support hospitals, and as the sole anesthesia providers on forward surgical teams.
- In Kansas and across the country, CRNAs practice in every setting in which anesthesia is delivered: traditional hospital surgical suites and obstetrical delivery rooms; critical access hospitals; ambulatory surgical centers; the offices of dentists, podiatrists, ophthalmologists, plastic surgeons, and pain management specialists; and U.S. military, Public Health Services, and Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare facilities.
- CRNAs play a critical role in rural America, including right here in northeast Kansas. They are the primary providers of anesthesia care in most Kansas rural and medically underserved counties, enabling healthcare facilities to offer obstetrical, surgical, pain management, and trauma stabilization services.
- CRNAs are proud to be part of your community. They are there for you when you are at your most vulnerable—having a baby, undergoing a surgical procedure, or seeking relief from intractable pain. CRNAs stay with patients throughout their procedure and take bringing patients safely and comfortably through these situations as more than a responsibility. It is our calling—our honor.
- According to a January 2021 CMS report, CRNAs were among the top 20 specialties that served the most Medicare- and Medicaid-insured individuals in non-telehealth care between March 2020 and June 2020—the height of the COVID-19 public health emergency. Many groups from all sides of the political and ideological spectrum have coalesced in support of this commonsense policy. These essential reforms will help increase access to care, curb costs, and improve the delivery of healthcare.
Read more about certified registered nurse anesthetists in Kansas at KANA.ORG.
