Case Study Nurse Anesthetist

Focusing on pursuing a career you like is important because statistics show fifty-two percent of Americans are unhappy going to work every day because they chose a career they didn’t have an interest in. My ideal job is in the medical field because I’ve always had a passion in helping people. I want to specialize in nurse anesthesia because of the important role they have in society. Nurse anesthesia interests me because of the tasks they do, the advanced education path they must take, and the history behind the profession.

Nurse anesthetics are important to have because they have many tasks they do. They perform exams and evaluate what type of anesthetic to use. If you have a drug allergy, they might give you a different anesthetic than they

It takes a minimum of seven calendar years of education and experience to prepare a nurse anesthetist. First, they must get a Bachelors of Science in Nursing. That takes about three to four years and sometimes it takes more. After graduation with a Bachelors of Science in Nursing, they will go back to school to complete their Masters of Science in Nursing. This will take an additional two years. While going to school, they will complete clinical training. Clinical is what is known as on sight learning. Clinical time is when you put to use the things that you learned in the classroom. You use your techniques and skills on real live patients in a variety of settings such as retirement homes, hospitals, pediatrician’s office, etc. The average nursing student will complete almost two-thousand five hundred clinical hours. The average nurse anesthetist student will administer over eight-hundred and fifty anesthetics. Once they go from a student to a nurse anesthetist, they must obtain a minimum of forty hours of approved continuing education every two years, document substantial anesthesia practice, maintain current state licensure, and certify that they have no developed any conditions that could affect their ability to practice anesthesia. I love learning new things and having a wide range of knowledge, so going through all this education seems fun and interests

The first ever recorded nurse anesthetist was in 1887, named Sister Mary Bernard who worked at St Vincent’s Hospital in Pennsylvania. Agatha Hodgins found the AANA in 1939 and established the Lakeside Hospital School of Anesthesia. She taught both physicians and nurses from England and France how to administer nitrous oxide-oxygen anesthesia. Alice Magaw was called the “Mother of Anesthesia” because of her mastery in the open-drop inhalation technique using chloroform and ether. She worked in Minnesota at St Mary’s Hospital. The early education of nurse anesthesia is also interesting. Agnes Mcgee established the first educational program in Oregon while Alice Hunt was an instructor for teaching anesthesia at Yale University. Catholic nuns were an important part of the early nurse anesthetists because many early hospitals in the United States were established by religious orders. The sisters were trained in the administration of anesthesia and they set up programs at their hospitals, training other religious sisters and lay nurses. Lastly, nurse anesthetists had an important role in the military in the early years. During World War I, they provided anesthesia to the wounded soldiers to reduce pain. In the Vietnam War, two nurse anesthetists died and they’re so highly memorable that their names are engraved on the Vietnam Memorial wall in Washington, DC. Learning all this history about nurse anesthetists, interests me