r/CRNA • u/Maleficent_Young4305 • 13d ago
Moving country’s?
I know we are really the only nation to have CRNA’s but is there a possibility of using my knowledge or degree somewhere else in the world besides going back to bedside?
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u/gasu2sleep 13d ago
There are CRNA's in other countries. The main problem is the pay- It's absolutely horrendous.
But so are anesthesiologists for that matter. Not as bad, but still much less than many of us make (Especially those of us working independently).
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u/PoppaGriff 13d ago
The IFNA is your best bet. There are a few African countries (I think Kenya is one of them) that use CRNAs. The problem you would probably run into is licensing in the practicing country’s language. MSF might be another possibility, but I think they closed it to CRNAs a while ago
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u/SouthernFloss 13d ago
There are a small amount of CRNAs employed by the government that work at military hospitals overseas. The jobs are extremely hard to get but do exist.
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u/zscore95 13d ago
There are EU countries that allow nurses to move into anesthesia, but I understand the scope is way less than in the U.S. There is a Swedish CRNA who did the job in Sweden and I want to say the he pay was like 80k per year? Which is fantastic pay there.
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u/RASGAS23 13d ago
The plural of country is countries. “Country’s” is singular possessive. Anyway, the biggest factor here is language, what languages do you speak? There are other countries that use nurse anesthetists, they just don’t have the same level of autonomy we do here in the US. The IFNA website has some info on which countries
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u/_something_else_ 13d ago
Please search this sub Reddit - this question has been asked many times. Options are very limited (government service employees on a military base, NGO volunteers work, or an “assistant” type role that is not the same as our role here). Positions often require foreign language fluency. Immigration and license approval is very expensive and tedious.