Midwestern University Nurse Anesthesia Program

Highlighting one of our outstanding Nurse Anesthesia Residents: Gerred “Matt” Miller, Class of 2025!

https://www.midwestern.edu/news-stories/student-spotlight-garred-matt-miller

Thank you to Summit Anesthesia for hosting an amazing happy hour! Your leadership is invaluable to our students!

Midwestern University Nurse Anesthesia Classes of 2025 and 2026 spent CRNA Week at the AZ Capitol learning the legislative process and advocating for CRNAs! AZANA Arizona Association of Nurse Anesthesiology
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In honor of Veterans Week, we recognize Captain David Good, DNP, CRNA, Assistant Professor in our Midwestern University Nurse Anesthesia Program. He currently serves in the United States Public Health Service, balancing teaching students with active-duty obligations and deployments. https://ow.ly/JkpJ50Q6af5

Q. Why did you choose to serve, and how did that influence your journey into healthcare?
I grew up in an extremely underserved area. The USPHS’ mission is to care for the underserved and vulnerable populations. This mission is originally what drew me to the service. When Hurricane Katrina made landfall, I saw how the USPHS was involved in caring for disaster victims, and it gave me another reason to join. Through the USPHS, I have been able to deploy to almost every major healthcare disaster since 2005.

How does MWU support active service members and veterans?
MWU has been extremely supportive of my service. The University has provided a schedule that accommodates my active-duty obligations and deployments. In addition, the experience and knowledge I gained at MWU is carried over to my job as a clinician with the USPHS. In a sense, MWU’s support is bettering the lives of the vulnerable patients I serve as an Officer.

Q. What do you hope students learn from your classes?
Student nurse anesthetists have the tendency to separate information into distinct and separate topics. In other words, they learn anatomy as one topic separate from biochemistry, and biochemistry as a separate topic from pharmacology. In my classes, I hope to bridge each student’s knowledge of these topics with the bigger picture in mind and then teach them how to apply that in the clinical setting.

We can’t control every outcome in healthcare. However, if we commit ourselves to evidence-based practice, we can reduce the number of poor outcomes.

To our #OccupationalTherapy, #NurseAnesthesia, #ClinicalPsychology, and #GraduateNursing graduates, we wish you the best in your future endeavors! #MWUProud

Welcome to campus Class of 2025, let’s talk anesthesia!

It’s time to celebrate the MWU Nurse Anesthesia Class of 2024 as they have now successfully completed the didactic portion of their journey!!! 🎉 Now it’s off to clinicals so they can show off their skills; we miss you already!

TEEs anyone?! These students had the opportunity to come in on their day off to play (and learn) with these Transesophageal Echocardiogram expert CRNAs. One of the numerous reasons our students (and local CRNAs) love the Midwestern University Nurse Anesthesia Program is our large simulation lab packed with state of the art anesthesia equipment!