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| 2025 -- S 0078 Enacted 01/28/2025 |
| S E N A T E R E S O L U T I O N |
| PROCLAIMING JANUARY 19-25, 2025, TO BE "CERTIFIED REGISTERED NURSE ANESTHETISTS WEEK" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND |
Introduced By: Senators Ciccone, Felag, LaMountain, Dimitri, Tikoian, Lauria, Bell, McKenney, Mack, and Thompson |
| Date Introduced: January 27, 2025 |
| WHEREAS, January 19th - 25th of 2025, has been designed as "National CRNA Week" in |
| order to celebrate and recognize the work of CRNAs across the United States; and |
| WHEREAS, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) are advanced practice |
| registered nurses, who have provided anesthesia care to patients in the United States for more |
| than 150 years, and are among the nation's most trusted professions; and |
| WHEREAS, Legislation passed by Congress in 1986 made nurse anesthetists the first |
| nursing specialty to be accorded direct reimbursement rights by Medicare; and |
| WHEREAS, CRNAs are primary anesthesia providers in rural communities and continue |
| to be the primary providers of anesthesia care to U.S. military personnel; and |
| WHEREAS, CRNAs practice in every setting in which anesthesia is delivered, from |
| traditional hospital surgical suites and obstetrical delivery rooms to critical access hospitals; from |
| ambulatory surgical centers to the offices of dentists, podiatrists, ophthalmologists, pain |
| managements specialists and more; and |
| WHEREAS, CRNAs are qualified to make independent judgments regarding all aspects |
| of anesthesia care based on their education, training, and licensure; and |
| WHEREAS, CRNAs are trusted anesthesia experts on the frontlines, caring for patients |
| safely and compassionately, delivering specialized, cost-effective care to all patients from |
| newborns to seniors, and for every type of procedure in all types of facilities; and |
| WHEREAS, CRNAs courageously served on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, |
| and used their advanced skills in airway management, intubation and ventilator management to |
| care for the sickest patients, as well as left their homes and families to travel to hospitals and |
| facilities across the country, in order that they could assist where the need was greatest; now, |
| therefore be it |
| RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island hereby proclaims January 19- |
| 25, 2025, to be "Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists Week" in Rhode Island and furthermore |
| recognizes the importance of the Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists and nurse anesthesia |
| residents and their role in providing high-quality care for the public; and be it further |
| RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to |
| transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to the Rhode Island Association of Nurse |
| Anesthetists (RIANA). |
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