Nurse Anesthetists
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Nurse-anesthetists are a group of nurses with advanced training in anesthesia who are seeking to gain independence from overview by anesthetists who are MDs (Greene, 1999). A new ruling by the Health Care Financing Administration no longer requires nurse anesthetists to be supervised by a physician when administering anesthesia to Medicare patients in order for hospitals to receive reimbursement for the services (Nurse-anesthetists, 2000). It is estimated that nurse-anesthetists currently provide 65 percent of the 26 million anesthetics administered annually in the United States. The issue of independence by nurse-anesthetists is contested by the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the American Medical Association (Greene, 1999) because they are concerned over safety issues and point out that physicians have at least seven years of medica
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