Generally, the Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist specialty is fairly evenly split between males and females with 40% of providers reporting their gender as male and 59% reporting as female. People living in Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Ohio enjoy living in one of the 5 most popular states/territories where Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist providers practice. In all, there are 62,373 registered Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist providers in the United States with over 5,372 of those located in Texas alone while around 4,758 chose to practice in Florida.
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist providers have been assigned the 367500000X taxonomy code in the NPI registry, which is a Level II Classification. Click here for more information about medical specialty types.
Overall, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist specialists practice in 55 different states/territories.
(1) A licensed registered nurse with advanced specialty education in anesthesia who, in collaboration with appropriate health care professionals, provides preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care to patients and assists in management and resuscitation of critical patients in intensive care, coronary care, and emergency situations. Nurse anesthetists are certified following successful completion of credentials and state licensure review and a national examination directed by the Council on Certification of Nurse Anesthetists. (2) A registered nurse who is qualified by special training to administer anesthesia in collaboration with a physician or dentist and who can assist in the care of patients who are in critical condition.