Our next guest in the Presidential Leadership Series is Deb Geisler, CRNA, who served as AANA President from 2001-02. Not only did she oversee some significant issues during her year in charge, but she’s also been a part of multiple committees through the years whose decisions have shaped direction of the profession.
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Today's show schedule:
2:37 – We’re still in quarantine and talking to Deb Geisler today.
3:15 – A former AANA president and a UNC graduate.
5:13 – Historical overview of the supervision battle with physicians.
8:53 – Here’s what the problem is with this supervision law.
11:53 – The letters that were being written to the legislature about nurse anesthetists.
12:22 – It’s a reimbursement issue.
15:07 – How the SODC began.
20:43 – The other goal for the SODC and how it was funded.
22:27 – The states were given funds in the form of a loan
25:21 – Helping states that were in position to be attacked.
27:12 – How was the dues increase embraced at the time?
31:51 – Being part of that committee is something she’s eternally grateful for.
34:04 – Some history on how regions were formed.
37:17 – She chaired the committee in 2003 to look at regional re-allocation
38:24 – A statistical analysis was done to see if the structure of the regions had anything to do with electability.
39:05 – The committee devised a study and sent it out to members to determine a course of action.
41:49 – From that study, the committee came up with a five region concept.
44:35 – How did people react to the regional suggestion.
46:16 – Sharon has always been a big fan of Deb.
47:33 – The most valuable leadership lessons that she’s learned through her career.
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