News and Events
Student, Faculty, and Staff Accolades
Don't forget to check-out Dr. Hill's article
Accuracy of Fingerbreadth Measurements for Thyromental Distance Estimates: A Brief Report in the February 2011 issue of the AANA Journal
Kelly Camp, SRNA (Class of 2011) attended the AANA School of Faculty Conference in Orlando, FL with Drs. Hill and Lindgren in February 2011.
Two of our students, Caroline Estabrook Allison (2011) and Elisha Catchings (2012) attended the National Meeting August 5-10, 2011 in Boston, MA.
Elisha Catchings has been appointed to serve as Student Representative on the AANA Practice Committee for 2011-2012. This is the second time one of our students has received a national committee appointment Marty Waddell (2010) served as a Student Representative of this same committee from 2009-2010.
Three groups of senior nurse anesthesia students (2012) will have poster presentations at the Tennessee Association of Nurse Anethestists (TANA) Annual Conference October 14-16, 2011
Dr. Donald Barker, Trauma Surgery at Erlanger offered the opportunity for the nurse anesthesia students to participate in the American College of Surgeons Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course that is offered approximately four times per year at Erlanger.
Four of our junior students (2013) participated in this two-day course on August 18-19, 2011 that active participation in the surgical skills, chest tube insertion, reading x-rays and emergent airway management.
Students will take part in this course each time it is offered in the future.
AANA Mid-Year Assembly - April 2011
The UTC/Erlanger Health Systems Nurse Anesthesia Concentration was well represented at AANA's Mid-Year Assembly event this past April. From left to right: Mike Lorren (Class of 2011), Senator Bob Corker, fourth to the left, Scott Hennard, CRNA, sixth from the left, Brandon Ringer (Class of 2011), and ninth from the left, Scott Monterde, CRNA, MSN, Assistant Clinical Professor.
New Critical Care Experience Requirement
Please note that the critical care experience requirement for the program has changed effective immediately.
Instead of having at least 1 year of critical care experience, perspective students will now have to have at least 2 years of experience to be eligible for admission.
Upcoming Deadlines
Now Accepting Applications for May 2013 Classes... Application Deadline: August 1, 2012
Snooze News (Nurse Anesthesia Newsletter)
- Spring 2011
- Summer 2009
Alumni Publications
The UTC/Erlanger Health System MSN Nurse Anesthesia Concentration produces a variety of publications to inform its students, parents, alumni, friends, and community about the important work done here. Please click on the link below to follow the latest scholarly work done by our faculty and students.
For more information, please use our request form or e-mail Linda-Hill@utc.edu (423-425-5693).
Clinical Partner North Mississippi Medical Center Wins Special Award
(l to r) Dr. Linda Hill poses with Summer Swinney, CRNA, MSN, Assistant Clinical Coordinator and Adjunct Faculty and Kevin Hitt, M.D, Clinical Coordinator at North Mississippi Medical Center (NMMC). Summer and Dr.
Hill were on hand to accept the Outstanding Clinical Partner Award for NMMC at the CHEPS Faculty Awards held on Thursday, April 14, 2011.