American Association of Nurse Anesthetists

Welcome to Beyond the Mask, innovation and opportunities for CRNAs and advanced practice nurses with certified financial planner Jeremy Stanley and CRNA Sharon Pearce.

Jeremy Stanley has worked with CRNAs for more than 23 years, and Sharon Pearce is a former president of the AANA and the NCANA.

Join us as we leave the operating room and learn the latest in the CRNA and advanced practice nurse industries.

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Go visit with all the other nerdy academics out there that are teaching and get some education on what's happening in the world of nurse anesthesia education.

There's some great courses through the AANA, the micro-credentialing.

There's an early educator workshop.

So all of those things can help you get a feel for what it's like to be an educator.

Any final thoughts, Louisa?

No, it's just great to see you here tonight.

The last time I saw you was at AANA The Gauntlet, which I didn't really get to see you a lot.

And I look forward to seeing you in February.

Enforcement and pain.

Okay, so let's take the enforcement first, right? The CRNA Professional Association, the AANA, sued the federal government on this issue to try to get them to enforce the laws on the books.

Right.

And I don't know the details of that case.

Welcome to Beyond the Mask with Sharon and Jeremy.

Today, we're coming to you live from the AANA Annual Congress.

We have an excellent topic today.

What if you say, we've always done it this way? Those may be some of the most dangerous words in healthcare because what works isn't necessarily what's best.

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ha-Helping them out, and most importantly, and the reason they care about these things, is you're not bringing in the indirect funding, which I do think that's a piece that I don't-- I think people know less about, I didn't know about.

So for most grants, you actually include a piece of percentage, and some of this has been in the news a little bit more because there's been changes in this as far as the NIH goes and different organizations.

There's, and for, I'll just say for the AANA Foundation, currently it's capped at 15%.

So for if you get to put in that 15% of whatever the grant that you are submitting for, so let's say it's, you know, $100,000 grant just to make it the numbers easier.

That's $15,000 goes to your institution.

You also at this outset talked about aromatherapy.

What did you find out about that and tee up for that? I was just down at the AANA annual Congress in Boston.

And again, I knew that this podcast was coming.

And lo and behold, one of the exhibitors there was hucking in a clinically approved aromatherapy set of products for anesthesia providers.

So well said on addressing the scent-free environments and that kind of stuff.

Patients having a choice.

And I was impressed, actually, at the AANA to see that this has become, not that I'm impressed by commercialism and capitalism, but this is legitimized in the commercial space.

Like vendors are out there selling aromatherapy in the anesthesia space.