A state appeals court has ruled nurses who are trained as anesthetists do not need a doctor's supervision to give anesthetics to California hospital patients. I think the impact will be primarily felt in rural communities where it is often more challenging to recruit acute and specialty staff.
I understand the concerns of physicians, but if I'm the injured or laboring patient experiencing serious pain in the rural hospital ER - that hasn't been able to recruit sufficient anesthesisa coverage, I'll take the medications from a well trained nurse who isn't being supervised during the administration process.
We have a physician specialist distribution issue and we need to find new ways to deliver the care patients need.
Also see Moderninzing Rural Health Care and Rural Healthcare: Increasing Access to Physicians and Technology.
I totally agree. If it was an emergency and a nurse would still wait for the doctor just to give anesthetics, I would rather inject it myself. I read in an article that one good option for health care professionals like CA nurses would be to get malpractice insurance http://reallycheaphealthinsurance.com/malpractice-insurance-professional-liability-issues/.
Posted by: Arlene Dev | March 22, 2012 at 04:11 AM
I think such kind of impact will be more used in rural communities where it is often more challenging to recruit acute and specialty staff. Even i would have taken medications from a well trained nurse who isn't being supervised during the administration process.
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