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AI-curated coverage of legislation, workforce trends, compensation shifts, CMS policy, practice-authority moves, and CAA expansion. Filtered for CRNA + CAA relevance — not generic healthcare news.

New Jersey CRNAs Push to End the Joint Protocol Requirement

NJANA continues a multi-year campaign to repeal NJ's joint-protocol rule, the last major regulatory barrier separating Garden State CRNAs from full practice authority. The rule requires a written protocol jointly authored with a physician for anesthesia services — an arrangement most opt-out states abandoned a decade ago.

New Jersey Association of Nurse Anesthetists

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