To contradict this, we work with CRNAs who train SRNAs (big metro level I trauma center), and a fair number of them stay on after graduating. Invariably, they still need about a year or so before they are actually up to speed on the acuity and pace of the practice (revise preop plans, PIV bailouts, intubation bailouts, intraop redirection, etc.). I can’t imagine leaving them alone in rooms as SRNAs.
We’ve hired recent CRNA grads from different, smaller, lower volume “training” programs, and most of us have had to work pretty hard to have them not kill patients outright. Some surgeons have complained about the new hires as well. Scary to think that SRNAs are being treated the same as residents at some places. The money must be good.