Nurse Anesthesia Program
The nurse anesthesia program is a 28-month course of study designed to prepare professional nurses as practitioners of nurse anesthesia eligible for national certification.
Applications to the program are accepted throughout the year for consideration by the Nurse Anesthesia Admissions Committee each Spring. Each new class will begin in January.
Mission
The mission of the nurse anesthesia program is to provide the students a clinical and didactic curriculum which enables them to meet graduation requirements of this program and to take the National Certification Exam so they can practice CRNAs.
Philosophy
In meeting our mission, the nurse anesthesia program accepts the following beliefs:
Program Statistics:
Since the inception (2003) the program has had a 95% graduation rate and a 92% first time pass rate (100% overall pass rate) on the National Certification Examination.
The class of 2012 had 12/12 students (100%) graduate, and 12/12 students (100%) pass the national certification examination on first testing.
CONGRATULATIONS CRNA PIRATES!
Accreditation:
The East Carolina University College of Nursing Nurse Anesthesia Program was developed in 2002. In October 2006 the program received a 10 year accreditation from the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs (COA; 222 S. Prospect Ave., Park Ridge, IL, 60068, (847) 692-7050).
The Council on Accreditation is a specialized accrediting body recognized by both the United States Department of Education and Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). Click here to visit the COA website.
- Human beings are individuals with needs, values, worth, and dignity. Although many human responses may be generalized and are predictable, all humans are unique and constantly interact with the environment in efforts to achieve a balance between their own unique needs and those of society. Adaptation is a process of seeking a maximum level of human functioning. Nurse anesthetists assist patient's physical and psychosocial adaptation to the anesthesia environment.
- Society is comprised of individuals, families, groups, and communities that possess dynamic structure, values, and beliefs which influence individual and group behavior. Members of society live in settings, both rural and urban, with varying levels of wellness and health care needs.
- Health refers to an individual's level of mental and physical functioning on a wellness-illness continuum, not merely the absence of disease. Health is influenced by developmental stages, by social and cultural factors, by previous experiences and self-expectations, and by personal choices about lifestyle and values. We believe access to health care is a human right.
- Nursing, as a discipline and a practice profession, is at once an art and a science concerned with human response to illness or potential health problems. Nursing involves caring for and about people. The goal of nursing is to assist individuals, families, groups, and communities to promote, attain, and maintain health or assure peaceful death through collaboration among clients, professional nurses, and other health care providers. Nurses are accountable to the clients they serve and are responsible for advancing nursing knowledge, critical thinking, theory, research, and lifelong inquiry.
- Learning is a dynamic internal process through which individuals develop their knowledge, skills and attitudes. Learning is a lifelong process evidenced by growth and sustained change in behavior. Learners vary in their past experiences, learning patterns, cognitive structures, motivation, interests, and life goals. Learning is facilitated by the learner's active participation in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of their own learning experiences. Faculty in the nurse anesthesia program is dedicated to the educational development of nurses in the specialty of nurse anesthesia.
- Nursing education guides the learner to attain competencies required for nursing. Nursing education considers the uniqueness of the learner and fosters commitment, accountability, autonomy, leadership, self-awareness, and continued professional development.
- Graduates of the Master's program are clinical scholars who integrate the science and art of nursing as well as articulate nursing's unique contribution in a dynamic health care environment. We believe that graduate education challenges students to think creatively in order to develop visionary alternatives appropriate to health care.
