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Article: VA Health Care: Many Medical Facilities Have Challenges in Recruiting and Retaining Nurse Anesthetists.
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- General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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GAO-08-56 December 13, 2007
Certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNA), registered nurses who have completed a master's degree program in nurse anesthesia, provide the majority of anesthesia care veterans receive in VA medical facilities. While the demand for CRNAs is anticipated to increase, many CRNAs employed by VA--VA CRNAs--are nearing retirement eligibility age. Concerns have been raised about the challenges VA may face in maintaining its VA CRNA workforce. GAO (1) identified VA CRNA workforce challenges that VA medical facilities may experience related to VA CRNAs, (2) identified the key mechanisms that VA medical facilities can use to recruit and ...
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