Candidate for Director, 2023 - 2025

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 Sabrina Petrillo, DNP, CRNA, AGACNP

Fast Facts About Sabrina

          • Lives in the Liberty Educational District
          • Currently employed clinically at Northwell Health and academically at Hofstra University
          • CRNA practicing in NY for 11 years
          • Curriculum Vitae 

 What are the biggest challenges facing the profession?

Of the many issues CRNAs encounter, one of the greatest challenges is the need for more skilled anesthetists versus the decreased amount we actively have in the work force. This mismatch can augment the need for other anesthesia providers entering the state to fill the gap, i.e., anesthesia assistants.

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

My role in ameliorating this difficulty is by working as Assistant Program Director in educating and supporting the next generation of RRNAs. Our successors will be not only nurse anesthetists but also board-certified AGACNP full-service providers.

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

My role as a nurse anesthetist, apart from providing clinical care, is also being an educator and administrator. I can easily adapt to any of these three environments as my experience is transferrable for every encountered need.

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

I enjoy a great sense of professional pride in providing a range of anesthetics to my patients. There is a privilege in caring for another person’s health, and being a CRNA allows me to do so utilizing my attributes of critical thinking, compassion, and diligence.

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

There is a need to have more clinical leaders from each facility throughout the state disseminate the current issues affecting state practice. My suggestion is to hold breakout sessions with our clinical leadership to stimulate engagement from nurse anesthetists and RRNAs alike. All of us ARE the profession, not just those with the responsibility to change policy and advocate for every nurse anesthetist in the state.