Join the Free CSPA Community!
Connect with a network of Aspiring CRNAs, Nurse Anesthesia Residents, practicing CRNAs and CRNA Program Faculty Mentors here: https://www.cspaedu.com/community
Get access to application & interview preparation resources plus ICU Educational Workshops that have helped thousands of nurses accelerate their CRNA success. Become a member of CRNA School Prep Academy: https://cspaedu.com/join
Get CRNA School insights sent straight to your inbox! Sign up for the CSPA email newsletter: https://www.cspaedu.com/podcast-email
Book a mock interview, resume or personal statement critique, transcript review and more: www.teachrn.com
—
Watch the episode here
Listen to the podcast here
Understanding Nursing Malpractice and Advocates for Nurses: Protecting Your License and Career
You do not want to miss today’s episode. It is going to be given to you in part one and part two; we’re going to be talking about some proactive measures you can implement in your current practice as an SRNA and CRNA that would shield you from legal liability.
We have expert Maggie Ortiz, who’s going to share with you her insider knowledge on being a paralegal nurse. She’s actually in the process of getting her legal degree. We had so much fun with this; I shared real life experiences that I have had as a CRNA. I also shared experiences that I have heard from other CRNAs, regarding legality issues that they have come up in practice. Maggie shares a lot of knowledge and wisdom on the proactive measures you can take to protect yourself as well as what you should do if something were to arise.
So make sure you save this podcast, follow it for part one and part two and let’s go ahead and get into the show!
—
Hello everyone. Welcome back to CSPA podcast. I’m so excited to have a special guest today. This is Maggie Ortiz who is the founder of Advocates for Nurses and she is here to share what proactive measures a CRNA or SRNA can take to shield themselves from legal liability. This is such a unique topic that we’ve never had on the show and it is so incredibly valuable. It’s something that you really need to make sure you put your earbuds in and listen to the show from start to finish. So welcome Maggie. So excited to have you here.
Thank you. Love to be here.
So Maggie and I met at a health tech conference called ViVE, which was out in L.A. It’s really unfortunate what’s happening out there right now. But that being said, it was wonderful to connect with her there and with other nurse entrepreneurs who are really out there just leading the way, and trying to address some major pain points within our profession as a whole.
Why Every Nurse Should Understand Legal Protections
It was really clear to me, when I met Maggie, that she just is so incredibly passionate about helping nurses defend themselves, protect their license and to practice smarter, not harder- to essentially be in the know so they can avoid some really costly mistakes and potentially even mistakes that could ruin your career.
She’s a wealth of knowledge and I would love for you to share how you got into this and where you are today with, I know you’re going back, getting further in your education and legal career so just kind of share with our audience how all that became to be.
Such an honor meeting you Jenny; I love everything that you’re doing and like you said, we met at the health conference. I’ve been a nurse for 25 years; I started with my associate’s degree, started in the ICU, ER, pre-op, PACU, endo, IR, cath lab, structural heart. So all of my stuff primarily was in the hospital setting. After about roughly 15 years of practicing, I left a freestanding emergency room and I made my first crossover to legal nursing.
I became an investigator for a board of nursing. I had to go to national training to become very intimate with the rules and regulations and how to apply those. If a nurse, any nurse, it doesn’t matter if you are an LPN or a CRNA, it does fall to the investigator to start the process of that case.
When I was there, I noticed some things that were happening, what we know as our constitutional right of due process, and that is why I created Advocates for Nurses. I started advocating, studying up on administrative law and what can a nurse do to protect themselves? Like I said, it doesn’t matter if you’re an LPN or CRNA, you’re calling yourself a nurse. So what does that mean?
All those rules and regulations are applicable to you. They’re not specific to necessarily your level of education. So if you’re using the word “nurse”, you better know what that means. I have dedicated my life to studying. I am pursuing law school now because I do want to make real change for us.
Most nurses do not understand the rules and regulations that dictate our professional license, and that is truly because when we’re in nursing school, we just want to know- what do we need to know for the test? Like I’m never going to break the law, and so what do I need to know? Because I’m drowning in medical terminology, I’m drowning in care plans. I’m drowning in “How am I going to pass the NCLEX?” The last thing that you’re worried about is whether or not you’re going to break the law.
Just to make this one more point before we move on, Texas and New Mexico jurisprudence; the course Jurisprudence is required for endorsement for every doctor, nurse, PTOT to be endorsed or hold a professional license. In the state of Texas, we have to take the six hour CE course and unless you hold a license here, you cannot take it.
But there are other entities who do have another course that’s similar to it and it’s basically the intersection of your license and the law; and then we have to take it every third cycle, the three hour CE, but it is written at the graduate level. So I tell nurses it is a tool to start to educate you, but it’s not the end resource. But I do think that all nurses should introduce themselves to some jurisprudence.
Yes, and I am familiar with that mandatory CE that comes up every now and then. I’m going to be perfectly honest, I’m sure I’m not alone because I often don’t pay much attention to it. I think like Maggie mentioned, we go into this profession not thinking, “Okay, I’m going to go in here and break the law.”
Real-Life Cases: Why Proactive Measures Matter
Most of us don’t even worry about that because of course we’re going to follow the rules and we’re going to do what’s right. It’s not on the forefront of our mind that this even should be a worry, but it really should be mostly because there’s situations that come up that really can be out of your control. I will share a story that was shared with me when I was in anesthesia training, and it stuck with me still to this day.
I was working with a newer CRNA. She had only been practicing for maybe about a year. We were doing a big case, a big blood letting case, so she made sure to tell me what had happened to her not too long prior. This was at a major academic facility. I’m not going to mention any names to keep things private, but long story short, what happened was during a messy case, the patient was bleeding out.
They were using cell saver, which is for those of you not familiar, you take blood off the field, you filter it, and then it’s given usually back to anesthesia to give back to the patient to try to salvage some good blood for the patient versus having to receive blood. So that was done and at this facility they had these really old school pressure infusion things that literally you put into this device, you flip a switch and it goes and it just pushes the entire flu bag…
Oh one, it’s a level one. It’s a level one infuser.
There you go. Well, unfortunately that bag was not de-aired, meaning that bag still had a lot of air in it; this ended up causing patient harm. A lot of air got infused and it fell back on the CRNA. It gives me goosebumps because I mean how life changing, how altering to know that you played a part in someone’s ultimately bad outcome.
This patient had a massive stroke, never ended up being the same. So they were brought into this legal case, their chart was scrutinized to the fullest, and she shared a lot of information with me that stuck with me because it was very terrifying to even hear her. You could tell she was so rattled and this was months and months and months later. But she was very adamant that she had to share her story because she want to protect other potential CRNAs from making this devastating mistake.
That whole facility, they no longer use that device. Those became not usable, meaning they got rid of that equipment completely. I did open heart for a long time and the perfusionist would hand me those bags of blood and they were usually aired. Well, every now and then they were not, so I got very prudent about double checking that.
It was because of the story she shared with me, that’s why I was very prudent. So what are some common legal issues you see affecting the realm of anesthesia? I would love to hear some insights that you have seen.
Just so we’re putting it all on the table, I’m just a nurse. I’m not a lawyer. I never give legal advice. This is never legal advice. You got to get your own lawyer. But to swing back to some of the things that you said, you’re touching on several different things. You’re not only just talking about the act of an error, but you’re also talking about something that you’ll never put down.
You already told me she didn’t put it down, and to speak about that; I interviewed RaDonda. Most people know her case. She’s the Vanderbilt nurse who gave a paralytic and not Versed, which we’re not going to that because there’s so many mitigating circumstances to that that were not brought out. But you know what? I remember the things that she was saying- that she walks in the room, she says what she does, but it’s the nurse practitioner who says, “I’m sorry” because she knows the weight that RaDonda is going to carry for life.

Nursing Malpractice: You’re not only just talking about the act of an error, but you’re also talking about something that you’ll never put down.
To your point in what you said, right, you’re going to get through. You’re going to pay your restitution, you’re going to pay your fines, you’re going to get through all this stuff. But you know what, you’re never going to put that down. So I think that that’s profound as well.
The Role of Documentation in Protecting Your License
We’re going to talk about legal stuff, I’m more than happy to, but that’s the other reason why you have to protect yourself because that is what leads to burnout. That is what leads to some of these other stuff. So it came down to what she did or did not document. It will come down to, because what is it going to be? It’ll be a nurse anesthetist with the same or similar circumstance who will be giving their expert opinion. The nurse anesthetist will be writing up a report and can be deposed on that and will be asked.
And the nurse expert is just unbiased. That could be you, that could be anyone. They’re just an expert giving their unbiased opinion on a case that’s been presented to them. So it’s always going to come down to what you did or did not document. They will subpoena the policy. Who taught you? What was the training? Was this culture? How was this a misstep?
They’ll be looking at some mitigating circumstances. So to your point, what you do or do not document is huge. And the biggest litigation that nurse anesthetists are involved in are diversion. Oftentimes, that is because RNs and CRNAs and anesthesia; if you look at the highest incident of people who divert a drug, it is the people who have the most access to it. Well, who is that? So it’s a logical argument. You can see that, right?
So anesthesia, CRNAs, RNs, we all have the most access to these drugs. So let’s just swing over to the board of nursing. In my own state, 30% of the 1,400 cases that are disciplined in Texas, and I can’t do that quick math, I apologize, are related to diversion, but that also could be drinking and driving. It could be a public intoxication, but more often than not for the nurse anesthetist, it is the diversion of the drug away from the patient.
That’s all that word means. And it doesn’t even have to be a controlled substance. People make this misconception that diversion of anything is a controlled substance. It’s not. It could be labetalol, you took the labetalol home and you used it on your cat or whatever it is. On my podcast in December, I had a healthcare attorney on, and he said it was a nurse who diverted an antibiotic, gave it to her mother-in-law who died, I think, I can’t remember; it was her family member who had a bad outcome.
That’s still a diversion of a drug because it was just the mere removal of the drug. But it doesn’t have to be controlled substance. Swinging back to all that, most of the complaints for nurse anesthetists in my experience have been around the diverting of the drug, giving the drug. I don’t know if you saw the case similar to RaDonda’s, the SRNA gives a paralytic instead of the Versed, pulls it out. I know how you guys like to label your drugs.
And my understanding of the case is that someone went back to the OR because they were doing something in pre-op and asked the nurse anesthetist assigned to the case, “Hey, did you pull your drugs” or whatever, they’re out in pre-op, they’re going to do a block or something and so they hand it off. I believe they went to the pre-op.
So how many times did this drug change hands before someone gave it? But you see where that’s culture and not what we’re supposed to be doing. And even in the cath lab, I had a pharmacist, I was on her podcast because you know what anesthesia does? They will hand over the whole Pyxis and the Omnicell where the nurses won’t do that. You cannot hand over a drug and not have some kind of sign off.
But swinging back to, it’s normally around the misappropriation of drugs, not monitoring. So unfortunately we’ve seen some nurse anesthetists on their phones during cases and how can that be noted? Oh, that’s your phone if you choose to be on your phone. That’s discoverable evidence now. So now you’ll be handing over that phone.
The Importance of Due Process and Knowing Your Rights
I got really long-winded, but you got to document, you have to document everything. And I don’t know your specific modality, but I do believe that in most instances there has to be an anesthesia provider there. I think Texas, that MD can have five CRNAs or a combination of AAs and CRNAs. So you have to be communicating with your doctor if you have any problems, any questions in it.
It's always going to come down to what you did or did not document. They will subpoena the policy. Who taught you? What was the training? Was this culture? How was this a misstep? Share on XYou are calling the doctor because the AA and you guys know what this is, right? The anesthesia assistant, this is utilized it a lot in Texas. For those who don’t know what that is, I’ll let Jenny explain it. Normally their undergraduate is not, it doesn’t even have to be in anything medical. Will you explain that? I don’t want to speak inappropriately.
Yeah, it does tend to be of some type of science background, but you’re right, it can really be in anything. But oftentimes they have to still have certain science prereqs to apply. But they could be an arts major and take some sciences and get in, meaning they don’t have to have a bachelor’s in science, but they do have to meet certain course requirements to be considered for the program. And it is really just anybody who can apply to that program who takes those courses.
And they don’t have a license. So in Texas, the AAs try to position the board of nursing to ask for a license. And I know one of the people, I was like, why would you do that? That’s a gift. You are literally an extension of the MD. You’re getting paid the same amount as an RN. You don’t incur the same liability. Like what? This is a win-win for you. Right? So I don’t understand.
My point being is you as the CRNA are licensed, you do not work under the doctor’s license. You are not an extension of the doctor. You have to uphold the standard of care. If you get called in front of the board of nursing, they’re not calling the doctor. You will stand alone in front of the board of nursing if you deviate from the standard of care, if you did not rope in the anesthesiologist. Good luck.
Megan. You’re giving me goosebumps, but I hope everyone else has found this helpful; it has already been incredible, the knowledge you have shared. I am not trying to make this a scary episode, although I hope it is because you remember what kind of makes you afraid, right? You tend to remember those.
A Near-Miss With A Nurse Anesthesia Resident
I shared that initial story and I’ll never forget it. It was terrifying to be like “I am terrified now to even practice.” But because of that, I often share with my students some of these near misses that I’ve experienced in practice because it does trigger this reaction in your brain where you tend to remember. I’ll share another story that happened to me actually right before I left, I moved to relocate, to be closer to family.
My last shift at this hospital; I did open heart there, I was often in these big rooms that had a lot of drugs. The open heart room has a lot of drugs, we were doing a thoracic case and we used a large endotracheal tube. She wasn’t the easiest intubation so we’re like, “Let’s give her a hefty dose of Decadron.” And in the open heart room, we had those bigger vials of Decadron. They typically had a lavender-purpleish top. You couldn’t see through the vial. It’s kind of brown.
Well, Levophed has a green top usually. And by the way, I’m telling you these colors because that’s what I’m trying to get at- colors on medications change depending on the manufacturer. They change all the time, so don’t get used to seeing colors. That’s a mistake. But that being said, I was with a student and I told her “Let’s go ahead and give her eight milligrams of Decadron.”
Anyways, out of the corner of my eye, I see her pop this top, which looks like the larger vial, a Decadron except it had a green cap. And I’m like, “What is that?” They had already popped the top and they looked and they gasped, they got all shooken up. It was Levophed. And I go, “Whoa.” Typically, you dilute Levophed, right? Because it comes in 250.
Well, had we given two ccs of that thinking it was eight milligrams a Decadron, that patient would’ve probably had a stroke. I was so shooken up by it. I mean I was trembling and I was like, “How did this happen?” The pharmacist had put Levophed in the Decadron slot.
So this student legit drew up out of the Pyxis, went to where the Decadron box was, picked out a vial, there was green and purple things mixed in there and happened to pick the Levophed that was wrongly placed in the wrong slot. I honestly wrote this up. It was a near miss.
But it goes to show that we are the last touchpoint between the patient. So we will catch mistakes that happen up chain. Yes, we didn’t make that mistake, but that mistake fell on us to catch. So I guess I want to share that story because that was very terrifying to know that that could have actually happened and we were only seconds away from it happening.
Similar things for Vasopressin, for example, they can look like Zofran. If you were to un-dilute a vial of Vasopressin to give it, that’s a code dose. So again, a lot of scary things can happen if you’re not doing that triple check on reading that vial label. Do not give a medication until you’ve triple checked syringes.
You mentioned giving Versed instead of Vecuronium or thinking you’re giving Versed and you’re giving some other drug in pre-op where it’s uncontrolled. You don’t have a ventilator or anything nearby. I mean obviously that hopefully was a controlled situation, that patient was managed and properly cared for, but it can be very terrifying to be paralyzed and not sedated.

Nursing Malpractice: A lot of scary things can happen if you’re not doing that triple check on reading that vial label. Do not give a medication until you’ve triple checked syringes.
So that being said, when you’re taking handoff medications; actually working with students makes me really nervous and I tend to always hover over when they’re drawing up drugs because if you don’t see it happen, you don’t know. And if you’re taking their word for it, this is really Zofran and not Vasopressin…
Nursing Malpractice Compliants
Let’s pause here. This is a good place to pause honestly, because, what would be your accountability? So if that drug would’ve been given, let’s just say the patient had a stroke, who would be held accountable? Jenny would be, not the student. Now the student would have to stand there as well. But if the patient stroked and let’s just say they had a poor outcome; if the family sued, now we’re talking about civil litigation and that could even rise to criminal.
We’ve seen this more and more. And you’re an LIP, so that could cross it over to criminal conduct. I love students but the thing that you have to be extra cautious about is, under the rules and regulations of the board of nursing, you are the licensed provider. They are not.
What about their RN license though? They are still licensed nurses.
That is a good point. I was going to touch on that. So can they be investigated for their RN? Yes. And can that be disciplined as a student? It sure can. Even though they’re a student in their SRNA program, they still hold an active RN license. So then both of you would be standing there, to your point.
My aunt’s best friend, in a home health setting, pediatric home health, they allowed a student. She had a student in the home and she got disciplined. I wasn’t even a nurse yet. I was like, what? I had no idea. So I am very hesitant when I’m teaching as well, just because I know too much.
I’m not here to scare anyone. I call it nurse love, tough love. I have my “Be Kind” shirt on because knowledge is power. It helps you to leverage your practice as well when you can say “The rules and regulations say this,” and it’s not on you. It’s on the Board of Nursing who gives me the privilege to practice and ability to say that I am a nurse. They say that I have to adhere to this rule and regulation, therefore I can’t deviate from that.
Medical malpractice says taking on whatever it is, let’s just say an unsafe assignment or doing something unsafe. That is the definition of medical malpractice. To knowingly and willingly do that is a deviation from the standard of care and can be considered gross negligence.
Just revamping two of my charting courses, one for surgical services and one for the regular nurse; those are in both of those courses. I read the definition of malpractice. I read the definition of gross negligence. I tell them what respondent superiors, I tell them because knowledge is power. Once you know this kind of stuff, then you’re not going to be doing this stuff.
You also realize that you could stand in front of the three courts of law. I don’t think that that’s fully appreciated when we get handed our nursing license. So to your point, I don’t want to scare people. I’m very passionate and animated, because those stories that you’re talking about, I was working with those nurses.
Those are the nurses that were drug through two to three years of their lives. It wasn’t just the case, it was because someone had a bad outcome and they’re having a problem putting that down. Dr. Julie Siemers is the patient safety expert. She’s written that book. She reached out to me a couple weeks ago. She texted me and she said, “Maggie, they must have been talking about our mental health. Do you know the number one reasons why nurses attempt suicide?”
I apologize, trigger warning: I said, “Yeah, it’s my line of business, Julie. I do the number one reason why a nurse will take their life is if they get a Board of Nursing complaint.” So I know that I’m a lot, I’m animated, I’m activated, but it’s because I do have a bleeding heart for the nurse. I want to scare you a little bit. It’s like Scared Straight. Remember that? Do you remember that show? So I’m just a little scared straight, you know what I mean? I’m like, nurse love, tough love.
Yes, you’re trying to help be proactive and not reactive. This is definitely really valuable. And I also, while we’re going to get on the charting, I think your courses are wonderful. I think it should honestly be a standard in nursing.
IIt’s a CE; You do get a CE, you’re not going to waste your time.
It’s really affordable.
I mean, it is $50. It’s nothing crazy. I’ll give your listeners a discount. Plus, there’s a 20 page handout that comes with it because I want you to pay attention to what I’m saying. So those definitions, anything that I put in there, it’s in the handout because it’s far more valuable for you to listen to what I’m saying. Then you also have that handout with clickable links. You know what I mean? Because again, with examples, to your point, that’s what you need to see. You need to see the real examples woven in there.
Accurate Charting As A CRNA
We need to know how to document to protect ourselves. That was going to be the next thing. I was going to share something else that another CRNA shared with me when I was in training; everything you possibly can document needs to be documented; attending notified, surgeon notified, document all communication.
One thing that I always tell students who I’m training in Epic; so in Epic, you pick standard templates, right? So maybe it’s a general LMA and then it populates all these standard drugs. Unfortunately, if you don’t remove those drugs then it looks like there’s morphine and Dilaudid on there that never got charted on; they’re going to be like, “Well, did you or did you not give this drug? Why is it on your chart?”
I always tell them to remove it. If you don’t give it, remove it. Get it off your chart. I was lazy like that in the beginning too, where I was like, “Whatever. I didn’t give it. It’s just going to sit there.” No, remove it. So what are your thoughts around stuff like that?
Well, I think you’re spot on because then you’re going to be asked about that. And let me just tell you, okay, you didn’t do anything wrong. It was one incident. Something happens. You’re already uncomfortable in civil and criminal litigation or the Board of Nursing, right? You’re already uncomfortable. Now you’re being questioned on something that, “Oh, should I have removed that?” You know what I mean? And now they’re going to trick you up on something that was really basic. They keep tricking you up. All they’re going to show is a trend in your behavior that’s going to lead to gross negligence.

Nursing Malpractice: Everything you possibly can document needs to be documented; attending notified, surgeon notified, document all communication.
Then on top of that, are you going to really remember whether you gave Dilaudid or morphine a year ago when this comes up? You’re like, “Yeah, I have it on my chart, but I didn’t give it.” They’ll ask you how you know that. And I wouldn’t know that.
So that’s just the thing, it leaves these deficiencies that shows, like you said, almost like being sloppy or allows them to nitpick you, even though it’s an Epic thing. I mean, they just populate all this stuff for you, which probably happens all the time, but it just allows them to nitpick and they will nitpick because they want to make you look bad so they win their case. That’s the whole point.
Every single person, they will nitpick and you can be on the stand for six hours, a day, for as many days as they want you to. And just so you know, imagine you’re on the stand; you already know there was a wolf nurse that produced a report, that the attorney already has all the words. There would not be a legal case if there wasn’t an excellent report with the same or similar modality. He wrote up all the words that you deviated from the standard of care.
So they have leverage against you. They already have someone who’s going to get on the stand. They’ll be like you or I. They’re going to get on the stand to say she grossly deviated, but this is not personal. It’s just these are the deviations. If it’s your family that died, you don’t think that you deserve an unbiased expert who’s going to give their opinion whether you deviated from the standard of care, right?
There’s two sides to that coin because some people are like, “Well, you’ve been an expert.” I don’t do civil cases anymore, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with you being a civil expert. So no, get it off your chart. Get it off.
The other thing that I’ve seen, more so with the anesthesiologist, because I’ve done phase one and phase two, is that you don’t get to sign off if you’re not here. That’s very poor practice. The doctor can say that all they want, I’m still coming to you as the phase two nurse or the phase one. I’m saying, “I know you already signed off, but this is what’s happening. I’m giving the rundown. I’m moving them to phase two. Or they’re going home. Are you okay? Because anesthesia is signing them out from that department.”
The surgeon doesn’t care. What’s all the risks involved? It’s the anesthesia. It’s all the anesthesia. And then let’s back that up. If you’re at a surgery center and this person is not appropriate for an ASC, you better say no. You better not introduce a drug. You better say no.
I’ve been in pre-op, and I was just a pre-op nurse. We had a patient come in who was already on oxygen, going to be a full shoulder sister. And so I just bought them back, never disrespectful, put them in the room, didn’t even have to change their cart, their clothes. So I go over to anesthesia. I was like, “Hey, I got a gift for you. We got a winner. So we’re on three liters of oxygen. This is the shoulder you’re going to do the block on. And I said, no.”
Do you see where PAT missed that this person was not appropriate? Or, an even better one, I’m pre-oping someone for a GI case; and this is why you need to respect the pre-op nurses as well. Anesthesia, and again, I’m giving a little gift from the other side. They sometimes don’t respect us, but I’m also protecting you, right?
So the patient came in, was not English speaking and was saying something about cardiac stuff. We’re having an upper and lower, and it’s endo. He had had a stent placed, cardiac, two weeks ago, so I was like, “No, we’re not.” So again, I went to anesthesia. I was like, “Hey, I got a real gift for you. We’re post-op day 14 from an RCA stent. Does that mean anything to you for this elective upper? I mean, I don’t know, but I’ll let you go in and take care of this.” But you see what I mean? You have to say no. And it’s about money, but you have to say no.
—
Well, I hope you’ve enjoyed reading so far Future CRNA, and I hope you have found the knowledge we have shared really impactful and valuable. This is the end of part one, but be sure to tune in for part two. Save the CSPA podcast page; you do not miss when we drop the next episode.
And be sure to check out Maggie’s website, www.advocatesfornurses.com. Maggie Ortiz is phenomenal. She’s so valuable. She’s definitely somebody you want to know. Hopefully nothing will arise, but I think she is someone you want to make sure you’re connecting with. Follow Maggie on LinkedIn. You’re going to want to go to her website and see the value she can offer you.
It’s always important to know what the next steps should be should something arise. Her courses again are very affordable. And I’ll be sharing the discount link in the show notes below. So this is the end of part one. Stay tuned for part two.
Important Links
Use code CSPA for 10% off courses on www.AdvocatesForNurses.com
Join the Free CSPA Community! Connect with a network of Aspiring CRNAs, Nurse Anesthesia Residents, practicing CRNAs and CRNA Program Faculty Mentors here: https://www.cspaedu.com/community
Get access to application & interview preparation resources plus ICU Educational Workshops that have helped thousands of nurses accelerate their CRNA success. Become a member of CRNA School Prep Academy: https://cspaedu.com/join
Get CRNA School insights sent straight to your inbox! Sign up for the CSPA email newsletter: https://www.cspaedu.com/podcast-email
Book a mock interview, resume or personal statement critique, transcript review and more: www.teachrn.com