Mission

The program strives to produce highly skilled certified registered nurse anesthetists capable of providing excellent anesthesia care to diverse populations in all settings where anesthesia practice or knowledge is required. We aim to cultivate appropriate learning environments essential to academic excellence, necessary to incorporate advanced knowledge and prepare a diverse body of students to thrive and positively impact local and global communities. The program promotes research activities to enhance the knowledge and understanding of best practices important to a diverse patient population with a focus on quality patient outcomes. The program also focuses on developing mechanisms to build new and innovative partnerships across a variety of healthcare disciplines.

The program's mission complements the mission and vision of the University and College. The program strives to produce highly skilled certified registered nurse anesthetists capable of providing excellent anesthesia care to diverse populations in all settings where anesthesia practice or knowledge is required. We aim to cultivate appropriate learning environments essential to academic excellence, necessary to incorporate advanced knowledge and prepare a diverse body of students to thrive and positively impact local and global communities. The program promotes research activities to enhance the knowledge and understanding of best practices important to a diverse patient population with a focus on quality patient outcomes. The program also focuses on developing mechanisms to build new and innovative partnerships across a variety of healthcare disciplines.

Philosophy

The faculty of the WSU Nurse Anesthesia Program believes that the ultimate goal of professional values is to reflect on professional competency and associated knowledge and skills that encompasses self-awareness, interprofessional relationships, commitment, accountability, all of which are associated with technical aspects of full scope of practice and quality patient outcomes. The possession of cognitive process capabilities, proficient implementation of technical skills, and professional integrity are best achieved through continued formal and informal guidance for each individual student. Faculty members serve as guides, mentors, facilitators and role models for students to synthesis the roles and responsibilities of nurse anesthesia practice.   Each learner is expected to incorporate established nursing foundations with the rigor of anesthesia education that promotes, observation, critical thinking, and use of diagnostic functions that would lead to high levels of accuracy and associated competencies required for the delivery of safe, quality, and evidenced based anesthesia practice.

Program commitment

Students in the Wayne State University Nurse Anesthesia Program have the right to a quality education, along with access to academic and clinical resources. They have the right to expect that throughout the program, they will receive the education and required competencies to support cognitive thinking, technical skills, professional growth and development, and leadership abilities.    

The program aims to produce high quality skilled certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) with the ability to practice in diverse clinical settings as well as assume progressively accountable positions in administration, leadership, education, and research.

Academic – Achieve advanced expertise and subspecialty knowledge in anesthesia care necessary to function in both interdisciplinary and independent practice settings. 

Clinical – Capable of articulating basic and advanced scientific principles and applying these to the provision of a safe patient centric plan.

Research – Develop the ability to critique and conduct research through application of research methodology, design, and statistics.

Professionalism – Generate the ability to be collaborative, culturally inclusive, and intellectually curious in all stakeholder interactions.