Candidate for Director, 2023 - 2025

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Foaad M. Zaid, DNP, CRNA, ACNP

Fast Facts About Foaad

 What are the biggest challenges facing the profession?

I believe we are at a critical point in our profession; we are faced with many challenges ahead. However, some of the biggest and most important are title recognition in this state, along with inability of CRNA’s to practice to their full scope and training.

What experiences, ideas, connection or resources do you have that would allow you to help with those challenges?

With a wealth of experience from a business standpoint, with owning multiple properties I understand where to allocate resources that would help propel our agenda forward.  I believe it is important to educate, network, support and back legislative candidates that have the same interest and goals we have with expanding needed care to our patients and allowing us to provide the safe care we already provide on a day to day basis without the unnecessary barriers. 

Name one skill or strength you possess that is unmatched by your colleagues or peers

What skill or strength I can speak to with regards to myself is that I am a very determined person with meticulous attention to important details.  Details that can potentially make a huge difference on how legislation is swayed. 

What do you love about being a CRNA? What drew you to the profession?

There are many things I love about being a CRNA; the thing I love most is the critical thinking involved in managing and keeping our patients safe (every breath, every beat, every second) throughout their most vulnerable time. The thing that drew me most to this wonderful profession was the ability to expand upon my hemodynamic knowledge base adding airway management whilst combining the wealth of knowledge and training affording us the ability to become airway experts.

Please provide at least one idea you believe will engage or involve members to advance NYSANA’s mission.

I believe for successful engagement we must educate our extremely busy members on the importance of the work we are doing in sustaining our ability to continue to provide the care we all love providing to our patients, free of politically driven barriers. Without this important work our skills and the profession we all love remains threatened and under the control of others. If we do not determine our own fate unfortunately, others  will determinate it for us and that outcome will not be in our best interest and training.