History at Barnes

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History at Barnes

• The Missouri Association of Nurse Anesthetists
  (MoANA) has more than 700 members.
• MoANA was founded in 1935 by 15 charter members,
  including Helen Lamb of St. Louis.
• Lamb became the first president of MoANA and
  later served as president of the American
  Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA).
• Lamb was also director of one of the first
  schools of nurse anesthesia, begun in 1929 at
  Barnes Hospital
• in St. Louis.

Helen Lamb
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History

• Former Directors of the Barnes School of Nurse
  Anesthesia at Barnes Hospital (1929-1983)
• Helen Lamb, CRNA
• Dean Hayden, CRNA
• Helen Ogle, CRNA
• The program merged in 1983. Former Director of
  the Nurse Anesthesia Program at Washington
  University School of Medicine Department of
  Anesthesiology (1983-1994)
• Joy Will, CRNA, MS

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Barnes School of Nurse Anesthesia

• The oldest graduating class from Barnes School of
  Nurse Anesthesia, according to old records, was
  in 1930. The start dates are listed behind their
  names
• Mildred Pauline Askew (Carter) 9-15-29 to 1-15-30
• Ethel Maud Bardin (Gilmore) 5-1-30 to 9-1-30
• Naomi Lee Burdick (Staley) 7-28-30 to 11-28-30

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History

• The Barnes School of Nurse Anesthesia was proudly
  in existence since 1929.
• On October 1, 1983, the certificate program was
  moved to Washington University School of Medicine
  Department of Anesthesiology.
• The certificate program graduated its last
  official class in August of 1994.

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History

• The program was moved to SIU, Edwardsville, IL
  where it became a masters prepared program.
• The Washington University Anesthesiology
  Department then educated nurse anesthesia
  students from SIU until a new program was started
  on campus.
• The program, started in 2004, is now called the
  Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish
  College in St. Louis, MO. The clinical experience
  is conducted by the Washington University
  Department of Anesthesiology at Barnes-Jewish
  Hospital and also St. Louis Childrens Hospital.

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References

• http//www.aana.com
• http//www.asahq.org
• Stoelting RK Miller RD Basics of anesthesia.
  2000. 4th ed. NY Churchill Livingstone.
• Verbal communication from Bev Krause, 9-1-09.