CRNA vs FNP

I agree with the above. I think some clarification is in order on at LEAST the first question regarding patient contact. Your people skills have to be excellent, beyond even those of the average ICU nurse. YOU are going to create a trusting relationship with a person you have never met before in a matter of minutes ( pre-op) and you are going to have to convince them you are a competent practitioner who will have their life in your hands even more so than the surgeons. ( Old saying in anesthesia \" There may be minor surgeries.. but there is no such thing as minor ANESTHESIA.\") There will be times when you will be giving \" Verbal sedation\" in cases where pharmacological sedation cannot be used. IE deep brain stimulator placement, 7th cranial nerve radioablation and even an awake craniotomy. in the latter you will be talking to that patient for a couple of hours while the top of his or her head is off and their brain is exposed. Please do not take this the wrong way. But it sounds like you would be better served by going the NP route. The career selection is usually NOT NP or CRNA.. it is usually CRNA or nothing,,, you have to WANT to do this. Consider this.... I have had countless students who were NPs and went back to school to be a CRNA.. in all my years of doing this, I have never seen a CRNA becomes an NP.

I am a CRNA... is there something I posted that would lead you to believe I am an MD? If so please point it out and I will stop doing it . Do you disagree with something I said?