North Carolina Association of Nurse Anesthetists

The North Carolina Nurse Anesthetists Association is established in the year 1941; a group of nine nurse anesthetists come across at the Sir Walter Hotel in Raleigh, North Carolina to establish a professional organization. The Goals of the Organization remained: To advance the science and art of anesthesiology. To develop educational standards and techniques. To foster support between nurse anesthetists and the medical profession. To publish periodicals and to issue bulletins. To promote the educational program of the AANA. By 1931 nurse anesthetists across the country organized and formed the American Association of Carolina's first graduate school to train nurses in the administration of anesthesia was opened at Duke University. Addie Medlin organized and termed the first meeting of the North Carolina Association of Nurse Anesthetists (NCANA). On May 10, 1941 she represented as President Protem, insisting on proper parliamentary procedure. In September 1941 the letter attained from headquarters enclosing the certificate of affiliation. In 1942, a second anesthesia institute was in Winston -Salem, NC at North Carolina Baptist Hospital. During the early forties, WWII was having its effect on the NCANA. There was a serious shortage of nurse anesthetists because many were employed overseas at battlefield hospitals. Meetings were deferred for the duration of the war. A committee was elected in 1947 to investigate and establish a tri-state nurse anesthesia association to embrace Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. It was supposed that a larger geographic part would convey a larger number of nurse anesthetists together to inspire statement between the states. The fifties launched with the opening of a third school of anesthesia for nurses placed in Durham at Watts Hospital. A swift and operational method of communication was needed to keep the members learned and up-to-date. The technique was to be a newsletter available twice a year. The final choice was ANETIC meaning soothing and delightful. The editor noticeable that its mails were also an acronym standing for Anesthetists Need Exchange Their Ideas Constantly. In 1955 the ANETIC was published in the form of an assured bulletin. North Carolina remained the first formal association to do so. The format was recognized in the bylaws, and requires a vote to change. Excepting for ink colour and kind face, it remnants the same today. Also at the Silver Jubilee an amendment was made to the national bylaws to consume the term "Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist" to designate its members. The sixties were notable for the emphasis NCANA retained on education for students and CRNAs alike. This decade also formed two AANA Leaders from North Carolina. In 1961 Evelyn Auld was AANA President.