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The current global trend is toward expanding the role of advanced nursing in collaboration with physicians to meet the demand for needed services. A logical course of action would be to establish a well-planned study to de-termine the safety and effectiveness of CRNA practice in South Korea. Such an approach would help both define the parameters of safe practice and suggest a legal scope of practice for CRNAs. Once CRNAs are established as safe and legal anesthesia providers, a path for ARNs to become CRNAs could be established. Allowing for cul-tural and professional needs and preferences, there may always be a role for the ARN to practice in South Korea. The challenge for KANA is to be proactive in develop-ing national standards for education, certification, and practice so nurse anesthetists can practice as one united- 7. Job SatisfactionAbbreviations: ARN, anesthesia registered nurse; CRNA, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist.profession, free of interprofessional conflict and confu-sion of roles.As the current practicing CRNAs age and retire, their numbers will dwindle. This will force medical facilities to train and utilize ARNs to meet the demand for nurse an-esthesia services. Although we expect the CRNA numbers to decrease, ARNs will be needed in greater numbers. Simply put, CRNAs as a profession may virtually disap-pear from the workforce in Korea. The South Korean CRNA workforce is in danger of shrinking drastically over the next decade. As of the writing of this article, the last remaining program educating nurses for an advanced practice in nurse anesthesia has closed its program. 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.