Why become a CRNA?
It's estimated that CRNAs administer approximately 65% of the 26 million anesthetics given to patients in the United States each year. CRNAs are the sole anesthesia providers for many rural hospitals in the United States, enabling these healthcare facilities to offer obstetrical, surgical, and trauma stabilization services. CRNAs are in-demand, highly compensated professionals – are you ready to join the field?
If you're a licensed registered professional nurse looking for a new challenge, the MSU CRNA program offers you the best of on-campus learning with high-tech delivery of lectures and faculty interaction.
The MSU CRNA program is a full-time master’s level program that can be completed in 30 months – even if you don't live near our campus.
Career Outlook
There is a serious shortage of trained CRNAs in West Virginia as well as the entire United States. There are many opportunities for general or specialty practice as a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist throughout the United States. CRNAs are needed in a variety of settings in the public, private, and military sectors, including hospital operating rooms, ambulatory surgery centers, pain clinics, and physicians’ offices. A Brief Message From
Wayne Ellis, Program Director
"CRNAs are the sole anesthesia providers in more than two-thirds of all rural hospitals in the United States, including West Virginia. It's estimated that in the next 5-7 years, about 25-30% of current anesthesia providers will retire and that's a huge gap that needs to be filled. So we were very pleased to have receive accreditation in October 2004 to offer this program."
Combination of on-site/distance learning. The MSU program is the first in the country to offer distance learning combined with practical clinical experience. Students will attend on-site labs, discussion groups, workshops, and simulations experience in 3-4 day blocks every 3-4 weeks. Most lectures will be delivered on CDs, and most other interactions with the faculty will be assigned, delivered, and graded via the Internet.
Clinical experience near your home. With principal educational settings in West Virginia (Huntington, Charleston, and Beckley), eastern Kentucky, and western Virginia, the CRNA program is designed to keep students as close to home as possible for clinical practicums. Other clinical sites will be developed as the need arises.
Patient simulator experience with Laerdal SimMan. Nurse Anesthesia programs have received international recognition for innovative use of simulators in established programs. For CRNA education, SimMan and SimBaby have full body physiologic parameters programmed to respond to student input.
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