CRNA Spotlights
Spotlight
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What does the CRNA credential mean to you?
The CRNA credential to me is a validation of my knowledge and qualifications as a professional anesthesia provider.
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What does the CRNA credential mean to you?
The CRNA credential means expertise and advocacy. We are experts in all aspects of anesthesia care, we are advocates for our patients, and advocates for continually improving anesthesia care delivery within our healthcare system.
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What does the CRNA credential mean to you ?
Becoming a CRNA was one of the highlights of my adult life. This credential has allowed me to become a better advocate for patient care. The CRNA credential is a recognized and trusted title, and a public promise of excellent, safe and high value care.
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What does the CRNA credential mean to you ?
A CRNA is a proud professional who helps restore someone's comfort, alleviating their agony and pain with utmost respect to the patient's dignity and values, basing the care on compelling scientific knowledge and delivering the most advanced care.
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What does the CRNA credential mean to you?
A CRNA is a highly qualified, competent nurse with clinical training based on the best evidence. It's a professional with critical thinking and leadership skills that provide the best quality of care to a culturally diverse society.
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What does the CRNA credential mean to you?
The CRNA credential means the privilege to provide world class autonomous anesthesia care to injured service members near the point of injury to ensure they return home to their families.
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What does the CRNA credential mean to you?
The CRNA credential empowers us to pursue and realize our greatest potential. Anytime, anyplace, always ready, always faithful- ever vigilant.
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What does the CRNA credential mean to you?
The CRNA credential is the foundational underpinning of our ability to practice clinical anesthesiology.
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What does the CRNA credential mean to you?
The credential means quality to me. High quality, cost curve-bending, cutting-edge anesthesia care.
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What does the CRNA credential mean to you?
When my patients see CRNA after my name, they see a person who is their designated safety advocate, guiding him or her through the entire perioperative period with the highest standard of care and superior compassion that comes from a highly trained nurse and anesthesia provider.
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What does the CRNA credential mean to you?
The CRNA credential represents the high standards that all CRNAs are expected to function at, and displays accountability to the public.
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What does the CRNA credential mean to you?
The CRNA credential is independence to offer the best of care to our patients based on their safety, and offer them personalized service seeing them holistically, emotionally, physically, and with a smile to let them know they are in good hands. As a leader I am proud to offer my time to my fellow colleagues to help them grow, and to protect them in times of needs and changes.
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What does the CRNA credential mean to you?
Throughout my career the CRNA credential represents advocacy: advocacy for our patients, for our scope of practice, and for the education of the next generation of CRNAs.
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Lanny Coker, DNSc, CRNA
Assistant Professor, Associate Program Director
University of Tennessee Health Science CenterWhat does the CRNA credential mean to you?
The CRNA credential validates my competency and right to practice as a professional. It reassures the public that they have a certified and competent provider at the head of the OR table. It makes a great public statement for the profession.
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What does the CRNA credential mean to you?
The nurse anesthesia credential means that I am one of the most qualified anesthesia experts in health care today! CRNAs are the “top Gun” of APRNs due to our education and clinical experience during school and practice.
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What does the CRNA credential mean to you?
"Maintaining CRNA credentials helps support our profession and visibility of the important work we do. We provide not only safe care to our patients but care on an unparalleled level. Nurses are consistently the most trusted profession, and I’m honored to do it at an advanced level.
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What does the CRNA credential mean to you?
The CRNA credential has afforded me the privilege to provide anesthesia care services to patients and to teach what I love to do. I can’t imagine doing anything else.
CRNA Appreciation
The NBCRNA would like to extend our appreciation to all CRNAs as they continue to work hard to protect patient safety during these unprecedented times. Your dedication to the nurse anesthesia profession does not go unnoticed!