WHEREAS, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) are essential to Idaho’s healthcare system, providing high-quality, cost-effective anesthesia care; and

        WHEREAS, CRNAs are anesthesia specialists who administer approximately 85% of the anesthetics given to patients each year in the State of Idaho; and

        WHEREAS, CRNAs are the sole anesthesia providers in more than 90% of Idaho’s rural hospitals, affording those medical facilities obstetrical, surgical, and trauma stabilization capabilities; and

        WHEREAS, Idaho CRNAs practice in every setting in which anesthesia is delivered: Traditional hospital surgical suites and obstetrical delivery rooms; the offices of dentists, podiatrists, ophthalmologists, and plastic surgeons; ambulatory surgical centers; U.S. Military and Public Health Services, and are the sole providers of anesthesia at the Boise Veterans Affairs Medical Center;

        NOW, THEREFORE, I, DIRK KEMPTHORNE, Governor of the State of Idaho, do hereby proclaim January 22 through 28, 2006 to be

N U R S E   A N E S T H E T I S T S   W E E K

in Idaho.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Idaho at the Capitol in Boise on this thirteenth day of January in the year of our Lord two-thousand and six and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred thirtieth and of the Statehood of Idaho the one hundred sixteenth.

BEN YSURSA
SECRETARY OF STATE