The transition from classroom to clinical rotations can be both exhilarating and nerve-wracking as expectations, personalities, and environments vary from day to day. Knowing what to expect can help ease the anxiety and better prepare you for this critical period of tra…
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Airway Exchange – Ep 14 – How Virtual Reality Is Transforming CRNA Training
What if CRNA students could practice critical anesthesia skills over and over again without limits, without pressure, and without risking patient safety?
Expanding Nurse Anesthesia Education and Practice in Low-Income Countries
What does it take to deliver anesthesia in a hospital with no ventilator, scarce medication, and power that cuts out mid-surgery?
Insights from Future CRNAs – A Crossover Episode
In this special crossover episode of Beyond the Mask, we sit down with two hosts from the Grade 1 View, a new podcast hosted by nurse anesthesia residents for nurse anesthesia residents.
Employing an Effective Mentoring Program to Recruit, Retain, & Increase Satisfaction for CRNAs
As CRNAs look for ways to attract and retain good people, mentorship programs might be the key to growing the profession. Together with co-host Tracy Castleman, DNP, CRNA, APN-A, FAANA, Abby Bisch, DNP, CRNA and Elvira Sayfutdinova, MSN, CRNA join the show to share what…
Advocacy in Nurse Anesthesiology Training with Dr. Kristie Hoch
We pose the question to guests all the time about how to get more CRNAs involved on the advocacy side of the profession, but today’s guest is taking a hands-on approach to instilling that mindset at the educational level. Dr. Kristie Hoch has taken her passion for adv…
Ep 244: Military CRNAs – Lessons Learned & Lives Well Lived
Janet Setnor, MSN, CRNA is a retired Colonel with the US Air Force Reserve Nurse Corps and someone we talked to last year about how she helped bring full practice authority to that branch of the military. Today she joins us to tell us more about her time in the military…
Ep 106: The Impact of COVID 19 on Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs with Erin Martin, CRNA, DNP
The wide-ranging effects of COVID on the healthcare system have been well-documented, but what impact is this pandemic having on nurse anesthesia students and educational programs? Erin Martin, CRNA, DNP, is the Program Director at the Mayo Nurse Anesthesia Program and …