Certified registered nurse anesthetists week resolution

32:35Is there anyone in the audience that didn't sign up that would like to address the board from public comment? Okay. Single will close public comment. Now is the time for resolutions. Madam Clerk, would you read the first resolution?

32:51Yes, um is anyone here for uh registered nursed

32:57Uh anesthetics. I don't Anesthesis. I I'm gonna stumble through this one. I'm so sorry. Anesthesis, please uh step up to the uh podium and forgive me for all the mispronunciations I will say on this one and I am happy for you to tell me as I'm reading it if I get it wrong.

33:19Wonderful. All right. I'll go ahead and read the resolution. Resolution number 23-062, a resolution by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, designating January 22nd through the 28th, 2023, as cer as certified registered nurse anesthesis week to recognize the importance of their role in providing high quality care for the citizens of Pasco County. Whereas certified registered nurse anesthesists, C RNAs, are advanced practic practiced

33:50registered nurses providing an anesthesia care to patients in the United States for more than 150 years. CRNAs are among the nation's most trusted professionals. ANRAS legislation passed by Congress in 1986 made nurse anesthesists the first nurse specialty to be accorded direct reimbursement rights by Medicare. ANRAS CRNAs are primarily anesthesia providers in rural communities and continue. To

34:20be a primary provider of anesthesia care in US military personnel, ARAS CRNAs. Practice in every setting in which anesthesia is delivered from traditional hospital surgical suits to oh and abst obstraetrical how do you pronounce that? Obstetrical, thank you, delivery rooms. To critical access hospitals from ambulatory surgical centers to the offices of dentists,

34:51paediatrists, ophthalmologists, pain management specialists, and more. NRES CRNAs are qualified to make independent judgments regarding all aspects of anesthesia care based on their education, training, and licensure. NRES CRNAs are trusted anesthesia. Experts on the forefront on the front lines caring for patients safely and compassionately, delivering specialized, cost-effective care to all patients, from newborns to seniors, for every type of procedure in all types of facilities.

35:21And whereas CRNAs have courageously served on the front lines of the ongoing corona uh coronavirus pandemic, using their advanced skills in airway management. Into

35:34the right-of-way. and ventilator management to care for the sickest patients. Now therefore, be it resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, that said Board hereby designates January twenty second through the twenty eighth, twenty twenty three as national certified registered nurse and a Yeah. Anesthesis week. Sorry. Done and resolved in regular session with a quorum present and voting this twenty fourth day of January 2023.

36:00We have approval. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Commissioner Oakley.

36:06Yes, sir. Thank you for coming today and we're happy to recognize you and the care that you give and I'm gonna stay away from those words that I probably cannot pronounce. Y'all would have them spelled a different way probably by the time I finish pronouncing it. So but we certainly appreciate the care you give to our citizen here in Pasco County and Greatly appreciated. So Anybody else like to speak? If not.

36:31I'd like to thank you during COVID the the great work you guys had to do, dedicating yourselves every step of the way and uh greatly appreciate you.

36:39Thank you so much commissioners. We really, really appreciate this great honor and recognition.

36:43Uh Commissioner Bradford? My daughter's a uh nurse practitioner. She had that route, your route or a physician assistant. She went with the one I could pronounce. Same amount of money too, by the way.

37:01Okay. Would y'all like to join me down front for

37:03pictures? And my daughter's a physician assistant and um I I'm really grateful that we have all these different pathways to uh help people get more access and better access to medical care. So it's not just one way, right? Thank you. Thank

37:18you. I work in a surgery center. Center in Newport Ritchie as an independent CRNA where I provide opioid-free and opioid sparing anesthesia to mostly Medicare and Medicaid patients for dental surgery and orthopedic surgery. Um so I'm very proud to be able to offer that type of service to the um you know the constituents in uh residents in Pasco County. So it's my pleasure and my honor today um to here in front of you to receive this recognition. Thank you so very much.

37:47Yeah. Thank you. Okay. Would y'all join me down front for a picture?

38:02Okay.

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38:12Thank you. Thank you so very much.

38:20Okay

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38:39Thank you all.

38:40Thank you. Thank you so very much. Really appreciate it. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. It's a pleasure meeting you. Thank you. Thank you so very,

38:48very much. Thank you very much all thank you.

39:06Okay, University of Washington. Yeah. Actually right now.