Professional standards and public accountability

In a rapidly evolving healthcare environment, nurse anesthetists will experience increased pressure to deliver value based anesthesia care. Activities of the professional association must be dedicated to advancing patient safety and excellence in anesthesia. To best serve the public and the profession, the nurse anesthetist profession must continue to be accountable for quality of care to patients, committed to continuing competency for professional practice, and promote sustained communication and dissemination of research-based standards development.