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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2017

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H O U S E   R E S O L U T I O N

PROCLAIMING THE WEEK OF JANUARY 22ND THROUGH JANUARY 28TH, 2017, AS

"CRNA WEEK" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

     

     Introduced By: Representatives Kennedy, Shekarchi, Casimiro, Keable, and Johnston

     Date Introduced: January 25, 2017

     Referred To: House read and passed

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     WHEREAS, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) are essential to Rhode

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Island's and America's health care systems, providing high-quality, cost-effective anesthesia care

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for more than 150 years; and

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     WHEREAS, CRNAs are anesthesia specialists who safely administer approximately 43

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million anesthetics to patients each year in the United States; and

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     WHEREAS, CRNAs were the first specialists to provide anesthesia care in the United

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States, tracing their roots to nurse Alice Magaw, the "mother of anesthesia" who practiced at the

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Mayo Clinic at the turn of the 19th century; and

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     WHEREAS, CRNAs offer obstetrical, surgical, and trauma stabilization as they practice

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in every setting in which anesthesia is delivered: traditional hospital surgical suites and obstetrical

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delivery rooms, dentists' offices, ophthalmologists' and plastic surgery offices, ambulatory

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surgery centers, the U.S. Military and public Health Services and Veteran Administration medical

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facilities; and

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     WHEREAS, Nurses first provided anesthesia to wounded soldiers during the Civil War,

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and more anesthetists have been the main provider of anesthesia care to United States Military

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personnel on the front lines since WWI; and

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     WHEREAS, Two Rhode Island hospital based programs, Memorial Hospital of Rhode

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Island School of Nurse Anesthesia and St. Joseph's Hospital School of Anesthesia for Nurses

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educate nurse anesthetists at the Master's degree level and have helped educate the majority of the

 

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more than 150 Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists who live and provide anesthesia to

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patients in the State of Rhode Island; now, therefore be it

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     RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives of the State of Rhode Island and

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Providence Plantations hereby proclaims the week of January 22nd through January 28th, 2017 as

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"CRNA Week" in the State of Rhode Island. We furthermore recognize and thank all the nurse

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anesthetists for their dedication and contributions to building a brighter future for all the citizens

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of the Ocean State; and be it further

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     RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to

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transmit duly certified copies of this resolution to the Rhode Island Association of Nurse

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Anesthetists, Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island School of Nurse Anesthesia, and St. Joseph's

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Hospital School of Anesthesia for Nurses.

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