Changing the Nurse Anesthesia Pipeline Through the Immersion Model: You Can’t Be, What You Can’t See (1 Class A CE)

The Immersion Model for Diversifying Nurse Anesthesia Programs (Immersion Model) resulted in pipeline national implications for CRNAs of color. Historically excluded nurses of color are targeted to increase a diverse nurse anesthesia workforce. New roles for CRNAs of color and educational endeavors include exposure and assuming nurse anesthesia faculty positions, completing Pain Management Fellowships, earning simulation credentials and PhD candidates. These roles cultivated by an evidenced-based Immersion Model comprises of three pipeline initiatives as selected by an international nursing policy organization.

The Immersion Model creates access and opportunity for nurses and nursing students of color to explore a professional career to those who mirror them in ambition from different hues. As Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children’s Defense Fund famously stated, “you can’t be, what you can’t see.