![]() ![]() And everyone keeps asking me, ‘What are you doing going back to school? You get no monetary compensation or rewards, and it will take a lot of your time.’ But for me, there are multiple levels as to why: At the professional level, the theories and concepts offered in the doctoral curriculum path will enable me to become a more proficient clinician. So why return for additional nurse anesthesia education? He took the job in 2017, moved from Maryland to Virginia, and shortly thereafter enrolled in VCU’s post-master’s DNAP program. “My dream was to complete my doctoral degree in nurse anesthesia at VCU,” Gabriel says.Īnd as these luck-would-have-it stories tend to go, a VCU Health recruiter who had his CV reached out one day with a job opening for a CRNA at the health system’s Community Memorial Hospital in South Hill. ![]() Suzanne Wright, the Department’s professor and chair. Over the years, he’d regularly see VCU Nurse Anesthesia’s booth at CRNA conferences, and got to know Dr. ![]() “I want to make anesthesia better for everybody. “I knew I always wanted to learn more about the policymaking process, novel anesthesia educational teaching techniques, how to improve patient safety, and how to get more involved with standards of care, protocols, procedures and regulations,” he says. As a practicing CRNA for nearly eight years, Gabriel Restrepo loves his work, but hasn’t been satisfied with only focusing on the clinical or pharmacological aspects of anesthesia. ![]()
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