Nurse Anesthesia Research Paper

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The Nurse Anesthesia was developed in the late 1800s and early 1900s due to surgeons’ request. Since there were few physicians focused on anesthesia at that time. In this time surgeons directed the care of patients by anesthesia nurses. The first legal battle was fought around 1916 and 1917 for nurses to retain the right to provide anesthesia under the direction of surgeons. Anesthesiologist can earn from $256,000 to 460,000 a year. This is all based on education and if any experience. An anesthesiologist must attend eight to twelve years of schooling with no clinical hours. In North Carolina, A CRNA can earn $132,000 to 175,000 a year. A CRNA requirements are a bachelor degree in nursing, which is four years. Clinical hours while obtaining …show more content…
Patient care problems are caused by medication error. A 2006 report from the Institute of Medicine estimated that every year, there are 450,000 injuries resulting from medication errors in hospitals, and perhaps many more that are unreported. What is especially frightening about these hospital risks is they "seem" completely beyond your control. For example, in the case of Joan Rivers death, these two professions play a big part. People have argued, that if a CRNA was present while Joan Rivers was having difficulties, that CRNA could have saved her life. There was Anesthesiologist, but because they don’t have the patient care requirements it is assumed the failure of her death. CRNA has a patient relationship, Anesthesiologists does not, yet they get paid more because of their …show more content…
Education teaches how the anatomy works but it does not teach how to care for a patient. I believe that doctors in training should have clinical hours before lab hours. All nursing fields require interaction with patients. One must learn the anatomy as well. Perhaps not to the extent of a medical doctor, nevertheless you learn the anatomy enough to address your patients care. Meanwhile, Medical school is twelve years and internships. If there was a way to input medical assistant care within the course, I could understand why anesthesiologist gets paid more than a