Ep 199: Olive Berger, CRNA – Founding Member of the AANA

Beyond The Mask: Innovation & Opportunities For CRNAs · Sep 22, 2022 · 35m

The early years of anesthesia were a time when nurses proved just how valuable they were as this new world was being explored. Olive Berger, CRNA was one of the women that rose to the occasion and helped shape the profession through her work with ‘blue babies’ and with the AANA. Today we look back on her career with show historians Nancy Bruton-Maree, CRNA and Sandy Ouellette, CRNA.

Here are some of the things you’ll learn on this episode:

Her early career graduating in 1922, the rise to Chief Nurse Anesthetist just nine years later, and some of her accomplishments. (6:38)

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