MP5PDW

MP5PDW

LTC,ICU,ANESTHESIA

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About MP5PDW

MP5PDW specializes in LTC,ICU,ANESTHESIA.


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  1. How difficult is FNP school?

    I think you already know the answer to the question. The evidence is every single NP, I have met who came from the NP community has said the CRNA school is much harder than NP school. I do not think there should even be a debate about this. Why is i...
  2. How difficult is FNP school?

    The SRNA thread, as is the CRNA thread, is very moderated. They are only as insulting as the moderators will allow. Why don't you ask a moderator to tone down the replies over there? I would be willing to bet the post I quoted above would not be tole...
  3. How difficult is FNP school?

    as you observed, there are a lot of compulsive, narssacistic egomaniacs in anesthesia. thats because the specialty demands huge assertive balls. I am NOT compulsive. Who told you that?
  4. Do you need hospital experience to function as a NP?

    It does not appear that any hospital experience is required. There are direct entry NP programs. And while TECHNICALLY hospital experience, albeit, not patient care experience, I have seen many an operating room nurse go to NP school with no real pat...
  5. When things go wrong

    The plural of anecdote does not equal data. Now THAT is funny. I am soo going to use that on a student.
  6. Organ Harvesting Anesthesia

    Non brain dead organ donors are those who do NOT meet brain death criteria, BUT are going to be "terminally weaned" from the vent. In other words support will be withdrawn. The patient is taken to the OR, the wean is done and once the heart stops, th...
  7. What Happened To The Nursing Profession?

    I must say, I have to agree with him or her about the lack of critical thinking skills. I lay the blame on the maternalistic manner in which most nurses are taught... and then managed once they graduate. I do not think malpractice is a cause, as suin...
  8. What gauge IV to use?

    That's all good in the OR, but outside of the OR, there is very limited use of local anesth. for IV insertion by staff RN's. It is an ongoing issue of whether the RN can administer a parenteral (IE: non topical) anesthetic prior to IV start. There is...
  9. This Doesn't Seem Right--Is It Just Me?

    Trivial? I would submit what they are doing is almost worse than physical abuse. To take a group of people, many of which are of a diminished mental capacity, and preach voodoo, complete with chants , hang prayers in their rooms insinuating they are ...
  10. What gauge IV to use?

    With local anesthetic... 1 or 2 % lidocaine with bicarb intra-dermal prior to insertion.... a 14 guage feels exactly like a 23 guage in the hands of a veteran practitioner.
  11. Alternative Airway Knowledge

    Cutting the pilot tube as a student will get you a very poor eval and kicked out of the OR to go look up articles. Cutting the pilot tube is darned near malpractice. The pilot tube on endotracheal tubes made since about 1974 are NOT elastic and sel...
  12. What gauge IV to use?

    Allways bigger is better. Here are the flow rates for IVs 22ga X 1 inch =35ml/hr 20ga X 1.16 inch = 60 ml/hr 18ga X 1.16 inch = 105 ml/hr 16ga X 1.16 inch = 220 ml/hr 14ga X 1.75 inch = 330 ml /hr Notice how the flow rates increase almost exponential...
  13. This Doesn't Seem Right--Is It Just Me?

    Unless the nursing home is funded by a christian chruch... and EVERYONE has the right to REFUSE to listen to preaching nonsense.... what they are doing is wrong. It is a captive audience and, from your description, without the capacity to make an inf...
  14. Independent CRNA's

    200K for an independent CRNA is a pretty low figure.
  15. Blue to Green!

    Gold is for the mistress -- silver for the maid -- Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade." "Good!" said the Baron, sitting in his hall, "But Iron -- Cold Iron -- is master of them all." So he made rebellion 'gainst the King his liege, Camped ...