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2008 Regular State Legislative Session Begins
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The 2008 Regular Legislative Session convened on Monday, March 31, 2008 at 12 noon. Go to the Grassroots Advocacy Center of this website for a preview of the issues we will be monitoring during this session which may last to June 23, 2008.
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Business Links for CRNAs - Professional Supplies and Anesthesia Agencies
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Reinhardt Medical Group
www.rmgcentral.com
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Any Questions?
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LANA has noticed many calls are being missed. Please call Mary Lou Guillot if you have any questions. Do not call the LANA office anymore.
Call: Mary Lou Guillot,CRNA
225-675-8693-hp or 225-715-8199-cp
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Links and Information of AANA Candidates Running for Office - 2008
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Running for AANA President-Elect
James R. Walker, CRNA, M.S., Region 7 Director American Association of Nurse Anesthetists 9410 Sundance Drive Pearland, TX 77584-2892 Phone: (281)412-7442 Fax: (281)412-7443 ____________________________________________________________
Running for Region 7 DirectorTheresa L. Culpepper, PhD, CRNA--Director, Clinical Anesthesia Services Department of Nurse Anesthesia, IVMSON Samford University 800 Lakeshore Drive, CHA 103B Birmingham, AL 35229 (205) 726.2007 ____________________________________________________________
Running for Vice President of AANA
Paul W. Santoro MS, CRNA President Ambulatory Surgery Consultants, Inc. 30200 Telegraph Rd. Suite 220 Bingham Farms, MI 48025 Ph. 248 258 5058 Fax 248 927 5058 Website: www.Santoro4AANA.com
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Running for AANA Region 7 Director
Bruce Weiner, CRNA, MS
Experience • MS-Medical College of Virginia-1984 • Member of AANA since 1985 • Clinician and Educator • H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and • Research Institute
AANA Involvement • Chair, Government Relations Committee 2007-08 • Government Relations Committee 2003-08 • Nominating Committee Region 7 2004-05 • AANA Foundation State Advocate 2003-05 • Occupational Safety and Health Committee
2002-03 • Adhoc Committee on Communications and Technology 2000-01 • Adhoc Annual M
eeting Committee 1998-99 State Association Involvement • President 2001-02 • President-Elect 2007-08, 2000-01 • Board of Directors 1995-98, 2004-07 • Federal Political Director for Florida • Chair, FANA Government Relations Committee • Chair, FANA Website
Committee • Chair, FANA PAC • FANA Finance Committee • Florida Nurses Association ARNP Task Force • Chair, TANA Nominating Committee 1988-89 • TANA
Programming Committee • TANA Public Relations Committee
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Very Important: Please Read
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http://www.asahq.org/Newsletters/2008/02-08/stateBeat02-08.html
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President's Message
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President’s Message
January 21, 2008
As I begin my second term as President of LANA, I would like to update each of you on an important issue within the state as we begin 2008. I feel very strongly about the future of our profession. The nurse anesthesia community has great potential to mobilize and secure our practices Louisiana. However, over the past months LANA has been working with the Louisiana State Board of Nursing(LSBN) in defending CRNA practice in the courts. This case has tremendous implications to all CRNAs. As all know there has been an ongoing lawsuit against the LSBN by Spine Diagnostics Center of Baton Rouge Inc. relative to the LSBN affirming CRNA practice to include interventional and chronic pain management services. This lawsuit is considered by all in nurse anesthesia who work to protect our practice rights as a potentially precedent-setting case that would have far-reaching implications. On December 10, 2008, a judgment was handed down that found the LSBN liable, both legally and financially for this lawsuit. The entire judgment is posted at the LANA website for review by all. This effort by some in the physician community to protect the economic turf of chronic pain management for “physician only” has been organized, thorough, and vicious.
Although many CRNAs have taken this attempt by some physicians to limit our practice as the serious issue to all that it is, there are many CRNAs in Louisiana who continue to observe on the sidelines, with an attitude that this fight “doesn’t affect me, I don’t do pain management services”. I urge CRNAs to reconsider this position. The physicians are mobilizing ALL their colleagues against nursing. They understand the economic implications of nurses doing procedures that will affect physician financial bottom line. The strategy is working. The Louisiana State Medical Society and the Louisiana State Board of Medicine are both now backing the hostile anesthesiologists in their efforts to limit CRNA practice. If CRNAs are not as aggressive with protecting our practice rights as some MDAs are at trying to restrict our practice rights, the profession of nurse anesthesia as we know it today will become a thing of the past.
As President of LANA and an experienced practitioner and educator, I cannot force any CRNA to political activism. I cannot reach into your pockets for the donations we need to our PAC, nor can I make you rejoin AANA/LANA if you have chosen to withdraw from our organization. I cannot force CRNAs to participate time and energy to protect their practice rights. I can only be a messenger of the facts. I can only try to make everyone understand the reality of the threats the profession faces in 2008.
Many of the CRNAs in Louisiana feel our work is secure and there is more than enough work for everybody. That is very true for now. In my lifetime I will probably not suffer from lack of work or lack of compensation . I am 60 years old and still working 24/7. Why? Because I enjoy my work and l like getting paid well for what I do . So, both professionally and economically I am secure in my career. The efforts I make each day as your President are to try to secure the future for our proud profession in years to come. The Spine Diagnostics vs. LSBN lawsuit is not of concern to me for protection of my individual practice rights. I do not treat chronic pain management patients in my practice. This issue is of concern to me as it should be for ALL CRNAs because it restricts CRNAs from a practice area that is growing more each day. It is a practice area that may become more and more attractive to young and middle aged CRNAs over the coming years. Chronic pain management is one of the few areas in anesthesia practice that is not feeling the crunch of financial cutbacks. Each CRNA should ask the question “Why are the MDAs so passionately defending a practice area from CRNAs that is in such demand by patients?” We all know that there is more demand than there are providers to give the services. The answer is simple. THAT IS WHERE THE MONEY IS RIGHT NOW. MDAs are fighting for economic survival in other areas of anesthesia services. Hospitals are gradually rediscovering that MDAs are not as necessary as they once seemed to be. MDAs can see the writing on the wall. They are working to secure a lucrative practice, while their professional practice base in acute care anesthesia services may be shrinking.
The perceived threat of CRNAs doing interventional pain management and chronic pain management services both in Louisiana and across the country is something that organized medicine sees as serious and dangerous. I believe the MDAs have capitalized on the paranoia within medicine of advanced practice nurses eroding physicians control and dominance in health care. The pain management MDAs of Louisiana seems to have had the idea that the time was ripe to for them to agitate other physicians to take up “the cause” of some in anesthesiology, to legally restrict the practice rights of CRNAs. All this activity from organized medicine led to our legislative effort in 2007 to secure our practice rights in regional anesthesia for once and for all. LANA did not succeed in that effort. That delay in our goals has been compounded with the recent loss of the LSBN in court against the management group of Baton Rouge. 2007 was not a politically successful year for CRNAs. We have been temporarily stalled in our efforts to secure our professional rights in pain management. However, the fight is not over “till the fat lady sings”. Many of us are New Orleans Saints fans. We know defeat, but we prepare our next season with enthusiasm and look forward to winning again .We will rebound and continue our fight in 2008. Please join us in our efforts. It is stressful and tiring for a few to do the work that should be for many. Please step up and volunteer to help.
Please take the time to access the full judgment that was issued by Judge Janice Clark in the case of Spine Diagnostics Center of Baton Rouge vs. Louisiana State Board of Nursing. The effort will continue to right this wrong. LANA is working closely with both the LSBN and the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) to develop a strategy that will reverse this decision and return to CRNAs practice rights that are in place throughout the entire country --- the right to deliver chronic and interventional pain management services by qualified CRNAs.
Nothing is possible to achieve for our profession if ALL CRNAs do not feel engaged and supportive of the efforts of organizational leaders to protect our practices. I urge each of you to recommit to your profession TODAY by sending in your $1.00/day/year contribution to the LANA CRNA PAC and keeping informed and involved in your professional organization. GET YOUR NON-LANA member colleagues to rejoin AANA! We need both financial and personal involvement of everyone. ACT TODAY!!!
Good Luck with your future! It is up to all of you to make this happen.
Mary Lou Guillot,CRNA,MSN,FNP-C
LANA President
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President's Announcement
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To All LANA Members:
On January 10, 2008 a judgement has been rendered in the court case of Spine Diagnostics Center of Baton Rouge Inc. vs La. State Board of Nurses (LSBN) lawsuit. The decision of the judge has been in favor of the plaintiffs. The court has concluded that the LSBN substantially expanded the scope of practice for CRNAs with their ruling that interventional and chronic pain management was within the scope of practice of CRNAs. The court has further ruled that interventional pain management is "solely the practice of medicine".
The implications of this decision affect all CRNAs who presently practice interventional pain management and chronic pain management. These CRNAs are restricted, for now, from performing these techniques. It DOES NOT affect privileges of CRNAs to do regional obstetric or acute pain management techniques.
The LSBN has been supported by LANA in its effort to defend its decision to acknowledge CRNA practice privileges in these techniques. The decision by the court has been a setback to CRNAs in pain practices. Both the LSBN and LANA are considering options for future actions.
For a full report of the court judgement, please go to 'Downloads' under the member's section. Any CRNA who has a question regarding the judgment should seek the advice of independent legal counsel. Sheri M. Morris will be happy to speak with legal counsel for any LANA member regarding the judgment.
Larry Roedel
Sheri M. Morris
Roedel, Parsons, Koch, Blache, Balhoff & McCollister, A L.C.
8440 Jefferson Highway, Suite 301
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70809-7652
225/929-7033 - Telephone
225/928-4925 - Telecopier
Please reply to SMorris@RoedelParsons.com
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LANA's Upcoming BOD Meeting
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LANA's upcoming Board of Director's meeting will be held mid-day on Saturday, March 29, 2008.
Please contact Mary Lou Guillot, CRNA for any questions.
Cell: (225)715-8199
or Email: mlgacinc@yahoo.com
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FYI for CRNAs of Louisiana
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Need verification of graduation from Charity Hospital School of Anesthesia prior to its affiliation with Xavier University?
Do the following:
Have your employer send email request to JBuras@LSUHSC.edu.
His phone # is 1-504-903-3370.
Need verification of graduation from the Xavier program 1985-2002?
Contact Xavier University.
ML Guillot,CRNA,MSN,FNP-C
LANA President
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An Important Message
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FREE CEU POINTS
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You can earn 10 free CEU's online at http://www.freemedcme.com. Be sure to do the search by using your CRNA profession and not just anesthesia. That way the ones accredited by the AANA will show.
You can also get 5 free CEUs at www.cmezone.com. Once again be sure to sign in as a CRNA.
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Addendum to Free CEUs
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As of January 16th there will be a charge of $99.99 to earn CEUs on Anesthesiology Online. If you are already signed up for the free version, it will be $79.99 for the first year. It's still a bargain. Much cheaper than Current Reviews.
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How much should you get paid?
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You can check this link concerning salaries of CRNAs + other professionals nationwide. Very informative.
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Free Online CEUs
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Free online CEUs for all CRNAs who have been on the move since Katrina, here is a way to obtain your CEUs:
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ADDENDUM TO LICENSE RENEWAL
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The Online Renewal system is available for use at the Louisiana State Board of Nursing Website at http://www.lsbn.state.la.us. In order to streamline the online renewal process we have removed the PIN as a requirement for creating an account online. Just visit our website at http://www.lsbn.state.la.us , click on the Online Services link, then click the Nurse Account Signup link and create an account. Also if you renew your RN and APRN Licenses online you will not recieve your license until mid January; however, your license will be processed and will be able to be verified on the website.
We encourage everyone to utilize the on-line renewal option for the timeliest issuance of your license(s). The Continuing Education (CE) requirements have been waived for this renewal. APRNs must submit verification of current certification since it is a requirement for licensure.
Be sure to fax (225)763-3580 a copy of your AANA Recertification Card to the State Board after you have renewed online. They need this to complete the process.
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UPDATE (February 2008)
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LA CRNA PAC items for sale. Check out the PAC page for details or click here.
You can now make donations online to the LA CRNA PAC or to LANA by clicking one of the buttons below.
Click this button to make a donation to the LA CRNA PAC.
Note: Donations to the LA CRNA PAC ARE NOT tax deductible. |
Click this button to make a donation to LANA.
Note: Donations to the LANA general budget ARE tax deductible. |
Click below to download the web site reference guide. This guide provides descriptions of the member area functions as well as how to register with the site.
LANA Website Reference Guide (PDF)
LANA Web Reference Guide (MS Word)
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