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🚀 Excited to be part of AANA EDGE 2027! 🎓🩺

I’m looking forward to joining fellow nurse anesthesia educators at the AANA EDGE Conference, February 25–28, 2027, to share ideas, explore innovative teaching strategies, and advance nurse anesthesia education!

I’m especially excited to serve as faculty for two hands-on, Train-the-Trainer workshops on February 25:

🔍 Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS)
Teaching Core Concepts and Strategies for Integrating POCUS Across the Nurse Anesthesia Curriculum

🧠 Processed Electroencephalography (pEEG)
Teaching Core Concepts and Strategies for Integrating pEEG Across the Nurse Anesthesia Curriculum

Both workshops will focus on providing nurse anesthesia educators with practical strategies, teaching resources, and approaches to integrating these technologies into their curricula, including learner assessment and feedback.

🤝 I’m honored to collaborate with an outstanding group of faculty who share a passion for advancing education, clinical competency, and patient care.

📣 Calling all nurse anesthesia educators, program directors, and clinical faculty! If you’re interested in strengthening your curriculum and expanding your teaching toolkit, I encourage you to register for AANA EDGE 2027!

Looking forward to connecting, collaborating, and learning together! 🙌

#AANAEDGE2027 #NurseAnesthesia #CRNA #NurseAnesthesiaEducation #POCUS

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CALLING ALL BAY AREA VENDORS & SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS! ✨

@mabuhayfanas is looking for vendors to join us for Pasko for a Purpose, a Filipino Christmas market and fundraising event happening on December 12th in Union City, CA! 🎁🎄

Whether you sell delicious food, refreshing drinks, handmade crafts, unique gifts, or anything in between, we would LOVE to have you be part of this event!

This is more than just a Christmas market. It’s an opportunity to showcase your business, celebrate Filipino culture, bring our community together, and support a meaningful cause! ❤️

All proceeds from our fundraising efforts will help support a medical mission to Cebu, Philippines, in 2028, bringing much-needed medical, surgical, and dental care to underserved communities.

📍 Union City, CA
📅 December 12, 2026 | 1–6 PM

Interested in becoming a vendor? Send me a DM or email geezelouiseeeee.collabs@gmail.com for more information!

🇵🇭❤️

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Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) aren’t just a valued part of healthcare. We’re helping shape its future.

01 | Advancing patient care
CRNAs deliver > 58 million anesthetics each year across the US – in every single type of setting it’s delivered.

02 | Educating the next generation
Today’s CRNAs enter practice doctorally prepared and w/ thousands of hours of clinical experience. More than 4K experienced critical care nurses enter nurse anesthesiology programs each year, building the sustainable workforce our system needs.

03 | Building the evidence
CRNAs are clinicians, educators, investigators, and scholars—generating and translating evidence that improves anesthesia practice, safety, and outcomes.

04 | Expanding access
CRNAs represent more than 80% of anesthesia providers in rural U.S. counties and are often the sole anesthesia professionals serving rural communities. Anesthesia access is healthcare access.

05 | Leading what comes next
From the OR to classrooms, research, advocacy, and policy, CRNAs are helping build a healthcare system prepared for what comes next.

Investing in the CRNA workforce—and removing unnecessary barriers to practice—is an investment in patients, communities, and access to care.

#CRNA #NurseAnesthesiology #HealthcareWorkforce #AccessToCare

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Welcome to the American Academy of Nursing!!

Congratulations Dr. Nelson Aquino, DNP, CRNA, APRN, FAANA, FAAN!

I am deeply honored to be selected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, Class of 2026.

Dr. Aquino is the recipient of the AANA 2025 Foundation John F. Garde Researcher of the Year for his prolific work on gender affirming care. Recently, he was appointed as an Expert Consultant on the COA Fellowship Review Committee for 2026-2027 by the COA Chief Accreditation Officer for his experience as Clinical Coordinator for Boston Children’s Hospital’s Pediatric Nurse Anesthesia Fellowship.

Dr. Aquino is a Senior Nurse Anesthetist at Boston Children’s Hospital, proud member of the LGBTQ+ community and Filipino Association of Nurse Anesthesiology Society (FANAS).

Grateful beyond words to my sponsors Patricia Hickey PhD, MS, MBA, RN, CPHQ, NEA-BC, FAAN , and Wallena Gould, EdD, CRNA, FADLN, FAANA, FAAN , for your vision, mentorship, and belief in me.

Heartfelt thanks as well to Mary Ellen Roberts , Michele DeGrazia PhD, RN, NNP-BC, FAAN, and my first mentor, Martha A.Q. Curley, RN, PhD, FAAN, American Academy of Nursing Living Legend, for shaping my practice, scholarship, and commitment to equitable perioperative care.

Proud to celebrate alongside my 2 Filipino CRNA Mentors who led this journey, Dan Lovinaria DNP, MBA, CRNA, APRN, CHSE, FNAP, FAANA, FAAN and Tony Umadhay PhD, RN, FAANA, FAAN. I am honored to be the 3rd Filipino 🇵🇭CRNA with four amazing CRNA leaders this year, Daniel King , Mike MacKinnon, Adrienne Hartgerink and Rishelle Zhou .

Representation matters, and I am humbled to be part of this moment.🇵🇭

“If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else”. ~ Toni Morrison

Thank you to My BCH Family and CRNA Colleagues
27 years….FAAN!

#CRNA #FAAN #FANAS #Filipino #DiversityCRNA

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An amazing and inspiring night at the American Academy of Nursing Fellows Induction ceremony. #nurses from the US and across the world 🌎 were represented and 5 CRNAs were inducted! The one I hope to be among them.
#faan #nurse #crna #nursing

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When your patient says”IT’S THE BEST NAP EVER.”CRNA focused. CRNA inspired.

#sleepy
#anesthesiology
#crna

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🫀 There’s something especially rewarding about teaching cardiac ultrasound to learners at the beginning of their anesthesia training.

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to spend the day teaching our first year student registered nurse anesthetists the foundations of focused cardiac ultrasound (FoCUS). 🩻

We started with the fundamentals of transducer orientation, image acquisition, and optimization, then progressed through the core transthoracic views, cardiac anatomy, ventricular function, valve motion and coaptation, volume assessment, and integration of ultrasound findings with the clinical picture. 🫀🔍

The goal isn’t simply to teach students how to obtain a good image. It’s to help them understand what they’re seeing and begin asking the more important question:

💭 “How does this change what I do for my patient?”

This day was particularly meaningful to me as a Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography (FASE). My involvement with the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), along with the work we are doing through the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA) to advance cardiac ultrasound education for CRNAs, continues to reinforce how important it is to build these skills early. 🫀🎓

Introducing cardiac POCUS in the first year gives us the opportunity to scaffold learning throughout the nurse anesthesia curriculum. Students can begin with foundational image acquisition and interpretation, then build toward increasingly sophisticated perioperative cardiac assessment as their clinical knowledge and experience grow. 📚➡️🩺

For me, this is where three things I am passionate about come together: echocardiography, nurse anesthesia, and education. ❤️

One of my favorite parts of teaching is watching students go from searching for their first parasternal long axis view to recognizing cardiac structures, understanding the physiology, and realizing just how much information can be obtained at the bedside.

The future of perioperative cardiac ultrasound starts with education. 🫀🩻🎓

#POCUS #CardiacUltrasound #FoCUS #Echocardiography #AANA

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I spent this weekend as a preceptor at the DiversityCRNA information and simulation session in Chicago. It was especially memorable because we celebrated the organization’s 75th event. Truly an honor to show love to the founder of DiversityCRNA, who I also call my “CRNA God mother,” Dr. Lena Gould. This means a lot to me. 8 years ago I attended a DiversityCRNA event as a critical care nurse dreaming of anesthesia school. I was so inspired by the CRNAs I met there to go all out pursuing my professional goals. I love this community and weekends like this remind me why I love being a CRNA. It’s a blessing to give back & to pay it forward. If I can do it, you can do it too.

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Every patient. Every surgery. Every time. On Woolrd Patient Safety Day, let’s renew our commitment to speaking up, working together, and always putting patient safety first.

#worldpatientsafetyday
#AANA
#crna
#anesthesiology

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