Title: Recognizing the roles and the contributions of America's Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) and their critical role in providing quality health care for the public, especially during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Policy area: Health

Summary:
This resolution recognizes the service of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs), including during the COVID-19 pandemic, and encourages participation in National CRNA Week.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 886 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 886

  Recognizing the roles and the contributions of America's Certified 
   Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) and their critical role in 
  providing quality health care for the public, especially during the 
                     ongoing coronavirus pandemic.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 25, 2022

Ms. Schakowsky (for herself, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Mr. Joyce of Ohio, and 
Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois) submitted the following resolution; which 
          was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Recognizing the roles and the contributions of America's Certified 
   Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) and their critical role in 
  providing quality health care for the public, especially during the 
                     ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Whereas Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) are essential to 
        America's health care system, providing high-quality, cost-effective 
        anesthesia care for more than 150 years;
Whereas CRNAs safely administer more than 50,000,000 anesthetics to patients 
        each year;
Whereas CRNAs are the primary providers of anesthesia care in rural America, 
        enabling health care facilities in these medically underserved areas to 
        offer obstetrical, surgical, trauma stabilization, and pain management 
        services;
Whereas CRNAs practice in every setting in which anesthesia is delivered, 
        including traditional hospital surgical suites and obstetrical delivery 
        rooms, the offices of dentists, podiatrists, ophthalmologists, and 
        plastic surgeons, ambulatory surgical centers, and United States 
        Military and Public Health Services and Department of Veterans Affairs 
        medical facilities;
Whereas CRNAs are serving on the frontlines of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, 
        using their advanced skills in airway management, intubation, and 
        ventilator management to help the sickest COVID-19 patients, leaving the 
        comfort of their homes and families to travel to hospitals and 
        facilities across the country so they can assist where the need is 
        greatest; and
Whereas the purpose of National CRNA Week, held January 23, 2022, through 
        January 29, 2022, is to raise public awareness of and celebrate the 
        Nation's 59,000 Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists and student 
        registered nurse anesthetists: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives thanks and promotes the 
profession of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) and their 
incredible, selfless and dedicated service during this pandemic, by 
encouraging patients, hospital administrators, health care 
professionals, policymakers, and others to utilize CRNAs to their full 
potential and to recognize the work of CRNAs by participating in 
National CRNA Week.
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