The Colorado Association of Nurse Anesthetists (CoANA) has released their new website, www.coana.org. Their new website has been designed to be clean, easy to use and informative. Visitors, patients, students, and members can view important news, events, and information. Through the new website, CoANA is able to share information instantly and more effectively to its members. Unlike their previous site, updating information is fast and easy. Utilizing a new content management system (CMS), administrative members can securely log in and update news, articles, announcements, events, videos, and photo albums. Virtually anything on the website can be updated through a secure login.

In our continuing effort to increase efficiency and reliability of the information we have regarding our licensees and to assure we are able to provide accurate and current information to the public, we are implementing renewal for Advanced Practice and Prescriptive Authorities.  The Division has made this change not only to better manage the data it maintains regarding advanced practice nurses and those with prescriptive authority,  but also to implement  key  aspects of the Nurse Compact.  What this means for Advanced Practice and Prescriptive Authority holders is, that in addition to renewing the Registered Nurse license, all APNs and APNs with prescriptive authority must also register any authority currently held that the nurse wished to maintain during the next renewal period.  There is an additional fee to renew each authority. The cost to renew an authority is $20 per authority.  As you may know, all fees are evaluated each year and set to meet the budgetary needs of the program.