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As CRNA numbers dwindle, their ability to influence policy and training will also diminish.The data also suggest that many current ARNs also plan to retire from anesthesia practice within the next 10 years. This means medical centers will need to ramp up their programs to train ARNs to meet the demand for nurse anesthesia services. If, over the next decade, the current rate of attrition for CRNAs continues and the education of advanced practice nurses in anesthesia fails to resume, South Korea is at risk of returning the practice of nurse anesthesia to its postwar status. We may well see the sun set on CRNA practice in South Korea.www.aana.com/aanajournalonline AANA Journal n October 2017 n Vol. 85, No. 5 367REFERENCES1 Ha SJ. The Role of Anesthetic Advanced Practice Nurses and Anesthetic Nurse Generalists. [master’s thesis]. Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea: Gachon University; 2010.2. History of Korean certified registered nurse anesthetists [Korean]. Korean Association of NursAnesthetists (KANA).http://www.korea-ana.co.kr/v3/sub2_01.php. Published 2015. Originally accessed May 1, 2016. Updated link accessed August 18, 2017. URL updated 2017.3. Kim S. The Beginning and Change of the Korean Anesthesia Nursing [PhD thesis]. Busan, Republic of Korea: Catholic University of Pusan; 2014.4. Park CS. The Professional Nurse Anesthetists’ Lived Experience in Their Role Performance [PhD thesis]. Seoul, Republic of Korea: Hanyang University; 2000.5. Kim M. Talk presented at: Public congressional hearing for improving nurse anesthesia system, National Assembly; April 30, 2015; Seoul, South Korea.6. A Day in the Life: Sister Margaret Kollmer [personal essay]. Associa-tion of American of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) website. http://www. aana.com/ceandeducation/becomeacrna/Pages/A-Day-in-the-Life-Sis-ter-Margaret-Kollmer.aspx. Accessed August 25, 2016.7. Bae C, Yoon H. Comparison of job task and task elements of Korean nurse anesthetists by the type of medical institution: hospital, general hospital and higher general hospital. J Korean Nurse Adm. 2013;19(2):239-253.8. Certification examination for APN. Korean Accreditation Board of Nursing Education (KABON) website. http://kabon.or.kr/eng/ kabon04/index04.php. Accessed January 4, 2015.9. Korean Nurses Association. Advanced practice nurse programs [Korean]. Korean Nurses Assoc News. April 23, 2015. http://www.nurse-news.co.kr/main/ArticleDetailView.asp?sSection=59&idx=5184. Accessed July 19, 2016.10. American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA).