Saint Joseph Hospital School of Anesthesia for Nurses is a privately run program under the auspices of Associates in Anesthesia, Inc. The school was founded and received full accreditation from the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists in 1962.
Associates in Anesthesia felt that the need for the formal education of Nurse Anesthetists was essential for the delivery of quality anesthesia care. This need gave impetus to the founding of our school of nurse anesthesia. To date, we have enrolled over 300 students into our program. Although our school serves as a major supply of nurse anesthetists in Rhode Island, we have graduates throughout the country.
In 1990, St. Joseph Hospital School of Anesthesia for Nurses felt a need to move to a more progressive academic setting, offering a program giving nurses an opportunity to become Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists and earn a Master Degree in Nurse Anesthesia from the University of New England.
The University of New England provides graduate level science courses in Physiology, Pharmacology, Chemistry and Physics and the anesthesia courses are provided by the faculty of UNE and St. Joseph Hospital School of Anesthesia.
St. Joseph Hospital is a merged two-hospital complex with a total capacity of 250 beds. In excess of 10,000 anesthetics are administered annually. Anesthesia is administered for all types of surgical procedures excluding open heart, organ transplantation and obstetrics.
St. Joseph Hospital School of Anesthesia for Nurses has an arrangement with five affiliate sites: Rhode Island Hospital (Pediatrics, Neurosurgery, Cardiovascular), Veterans Administration Medical Center (Regional Anesthesia, General Anesthesia), St. Vincent's Hospital (Obstetrics, Thoracic), Backus Hospital-Norwich, CT (Regional, General Anesthesia, Obstetrics, Pediatrics and West Roxbury VA, MA (Hearts, Neuro, Regional and General Anesthetics.
The school is approved by the Council on Accreditation. It received full accreditation in 2006 and maintains this status until the next review in 2016.

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