Thank you to all who attended CoANA's fall meeting in Breckenridge, CO last weekend. A great time was had by all at the Hyatt Main Street Station where speakers James Walker, CRNA, Bernadette Henrichs, CRNA, PhD, Steven Metcalf, MD, and Fareedul Azam, MD lectured regarding a variety of topics including diabetes, obesity, fatigue, hypertension, the pediatric airway and trauma resuscitation.
The annual CoANA business meeting also took place where Jennifer Harenburg took over as CoANA president, Lawrence Shovelton became the president elect and Eileen Logan was inducted as CoANA secretary. (As a note, all elected terms are for 2 years.) Another exciting event at the CoANA business meeting was the presentation of the new CoANA website!
Again, thank you to all who attended. We look forward to another successful spring meeting in 2010.
CoANA proudly presents it's Spring 2010 Program, Downtown Denver Anesthesia Update, May 15-16, 2010. Saturday's meeting will take place at Maggiano's Little Italy located in the Denver Pavilions and features speakers Dan Simonson, CRNA, Dr. Jack Humphrey, DO, and Murphy Anderson, CRNA. They will present topics including: opthalmic anesthesia, perioperative management of coronary artery stents, and COPD in the perioperative setting. Saturday evening, a block of tickets has been purchased for the Colorado Rockies vs the Washington Nationals baseball game and all are invited to purchase tickets and enjoy the evening amongst friend and peers in downtown Denver at Coors Field. Sundays program offers recertification for BLS/ACLS/PALS taught by Kristin Paston, RN of Health Paradigms and will be held at Denver Health Medical Center. Please check out our registration form and come for a fun and educational weekend!
The Colorado Association of Nurse Anesthetists (CoANA) has released their new website, 
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.
2009 Fall Newsletter