The Last Day Working and CRNA Scope of Practice

This sounds like a spaghetti Western film staring some of the oldsters. Any minute now I expect to see someone strike a wooden match against their boots and light up an old half smoked crooked cigar, saunter across the dusty street and push in the swinging door of the local saloon. Marshal Mat Dillon of course would be there to straighten out any rough stuff so not to worry little chil'ens.



Well, this is not an old Western but the last day that I get to play at nursing for a while, cause you see partner, I got things to do at the County Seat and I have to be moseying along. The fact is, Anesthesia School 2nd semester starts this coming Monday at LAC-USC hospital and I AM FREAKING EXCITED about that.

CRNA Clinical Practice

The first semester of clinical practice for me as a Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist(SRNA) will be at the Big House, the Mother of all County Trauma Centers, The Los Angeles County Hospital just across the street from the USC Health Science Campus. Orientation will start on Wednesday with Jim Carey and the Gang of Four (Terry Noris, Kari Cole, Michele Gold, and Dr. Philip D. Lumb). These are all wonderful role models and excellent clinical examples; the best of the best in anesthesia. What a life I get to live.

The Board of Registered Nursing here in California just posted a Statement of Practice for CRNA's in California. Now this IS important. It can be viewed at the California BRN's web site or here for a slight fee. Just kidding. I encourage everyone to read the description of the scope of practice for the CRNA. This has been a hard fought battle to get this posted by the California BRN. The scope of practice of Nursing and the CRNA is only in the domain of the Board of Registered Nursing and not Medicine. Much more on this later.