Originally Posted by KermitRN
Are you serious?
WOW
Some advise:
#1 Do some research on the profession. Do not just ask to be spoon fed.
#2 If your first question about a profession is regarding pay ... anesthesia is not for you
Good Luck
Somewhat agreed on point one, but no biggie. Either no response or an extremely simple link such as
http://allnurses.com/forums/f227/rea...aq-123275.html would have sufficed....
as to comment #2, I'll take a crack at this.
Full disclosure, I am a incoming 4th year BSN
I work for money. My time and efforts professionally has always been traded for money. What impressed me with nursing enough to get me into it is the rapidly expanding and dynamic industry and market conditions of health care, and nursing, specifically. Further down the list is my desire to work in some kind of meaningful and helpful profession..... If CRNA's made 50,000-60,000 per year, would people be interested in taking on that much responsibility/liability and hard work just to get there? I doubt it.
Also, (and differing in scope from the OP's post) if someone earns a BSN, and acquires a certain amount of practical experience and is looking to make a career change to CRNA, are they not entitled to include earnings as THE MAIN criterion for alternative work if they chose to? I am sure that many CRNA's love what they do. OTOH, I am sure that if you placed $10,000,000 into the hands of 100 CRNA's, many would not be back to work on Monday morning. Why? Because we ARE into this for the money, regardless of how "dastardly" that sounds. I would love to be a philanthropist one day, working on behalf of the needy or unfortunate, but unfortunately..... My comment is not to single out your statement, because I have seen this around before, and wonder on what level I am supposed to be interested in something? With no self interest whatsoever?
No chance.
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