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To be or not to be a specialty nurse Over the past one hundred years or so, nursing has taken critical blows and has made several changes. A constant battle rages for nurses to gain and retain the respect they deserve. Just as nursing in general struggles to attract young and new nurses to the field, specialty areas of nursing are not exempt from the battle. What is it that specialty nurses want most? According to Larry Stoves, CRNA, specialty nurses want flexible schedules and better staffing. In a field where they are considered the ‘elite’ of nursing, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists are not without gripes of their own. At four-thirty in the morning you can find Larry Stoves having his first cup of coffee and preparing for his day. He works from six-thirty in the morning until the surgery schedule is complete. Because Larry is a specialty nurse, he must work unusual hours that require him to spend 2 to 6 nights a month in the hospital. Larry Stoves is a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist and has been working in his specialty area for over 10 years. In discussions with Larry, it was interesting to find that compared to a registered nurse working 12 hour shifts, the CRNA who is working 8 hour shifts