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Military vs. Civilian CRNA's



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Dec 15, 2004 03:55 PM

Military vs. Civilian CRNA's


When I was in the navy nurse corps we used CRNA's for everything, and they were very independent. I have not worked with CRNA's in a very long time since in left the navy. I wanted to go to school for this specialty, but I've been told that all CRNA's do is monitor the patient in the O.R. for the MD. I know CRNA's, in my area,(S.Calif), are limited to a few hospitals. What really goes on in the civilian side of the house?

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from mwbeah
Old Dec 15, 2004, 10:40 PM

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Originally Posted by RE Agent
When I was in the navy nurse corps we used CRNA's for everything, and they were very independent. I have not worked with CRNA's in a very long time since in left the navy. I wanted to go to school for this specialty, but I've been told that all CRNA's do is monitor the patient in the O.R. for the MD. I know CRNA's, in my area,(S.Calif), are limited to a few hospitals. What really goes on in the civilian side of the house?
It all depends on where you practice.....many of the rural areas involve CRNAs as sole practitioners and visa versa in the bigger cities.

Mike
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from are-in
Old Dec 16, 2004, 01:16 AM

Default hmmm
Well let's see...
Considering the average CRNA salary, I would imagine that if the only thing that the CRNA did was to monitor the PT in the OR for the MD, then the field would be overwhelmingly saturated!

Originally Posted by RE Agent
When I was in the navy nurse corps we used CRNA's for everything, and they were very independent. I have not worked with CRNA's in a very long time since in left the navy. I wanted to go to school for this specialty, but I've been told that all CRNA's do is monitor the patient in the O.R. for the MD. I know CRNA's, in my area,(S.Calif), are limited to a few hospitals. What really goes on in the civilian side of the house?
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No. 3
from deepz
Old Dec 16, 2004, 02:32 PM

Originally Posted by RE Agent
..... I've been told that all CRNA's do is monitor the patient in the O.R. for the MD. ......

And I was once told that the moon is made of green cheese.

Both statements bear equal relation to reality.

deepz
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No. 4
from gaspassah
Old Dec 16, 2004, 08:28 PM

I know CRNA's, in my area,(S.Calif), are limited to a few hospitals.
well i go to school at kaiser, all the kaisers except one use crnas, plus several hospitals we use for clinicals outside kaiser use them. crnas are used more readily in s cali than you may expect.
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from jewelcutt
Old Dec 17, 2004, 02:14 PM

Hey gaspassah,

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from gaspassah
Old Dec 17, 2004, 05:28 PM

he's truly gifted as a teacher, he can make the most difficult ideas easy to understand. he is very laid back. wanna talk? just go knock on his door. guys is scary smart too.
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