renardeau BSN, RN

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   Union University

   renardeau replied to lposh's topic in SRNA

   I just saw a facebook post about a prospective student who got their acceptance rescinded for being openly gay and planning to live with their significant other... Something to consider. It's a very ugly look for the school if it's true.
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   Nursing Licensure while in school.

   renardeau replied to Walkingbad's topic in SRNA

   I'm not in those particular states, but I had moved from MD to VA (both compact) and had a similar situation. It's my understanding that if you have an NC address, you can keep your NC license. If not, you will probably be asked to switched to Kentuc...
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   CoreConcepts and APEX board preparation test scores

   renardeau posted a topic in SRNA

   What range do your programs tell you that you should be in to pass boards? My program told me scoring in the 60-70s range was fine in APEX, and in APEX you can see the national averages are around there frequently, but given that 1st- and 2nd-years u...
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   CRNAs: We are the Answer

   renardeau replied to Bluebolt's topic in CRNA

   A large portion of my family are doctors as well, so this is anecdotal from them and also from my own experience having rotated with them and with residents. Medical students may touch the patient, but they don't make decisions. They shadow, hold ret...
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   Teaching nursing with a Ph.D. in medicine?

   renardeau replied to BRN131417's topic in Educators

   My chemistry and physics, pathophysiology, physiology professor in my nurse anesthesia program is a non-nurse and he is AMAZING.
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   10 things that got me accepted to CRNA school

   renardeau replied to CRNA 1984's topic in SRNA

   Just my 2 cents: SICU is a safe ICU and makes sense given the recovery period and environment, but most of the people in my program (many of the SICU) agree that cardiac ICU (whether it's surgical or medical cardiac) was a huge advantage because of a...
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   Fastest Route Possible?

   renardeau replied to 504girl's topic in SRNA

   Along the lines of fellow posters, try drug reps or other medical tech/supply companies, e.g. Abiomed, Medtronic, Covidien, etc. They appreciate people with clinical experience/health backgrounds. The ones I know make far more than NPs actually and t...
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   Age Demographics from your Programs..

   renardeau replied to Gunship's topic in SRNA

   Our class is mid-20s on average with a range of 24-late 30s (not sure of exact age of one person) at the start of the program, I believe. I say if it's a subject you enjoy and your finances allow for it, you might as well try! Going back to school ha...
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   Frustrating... ED is Not Critical Care

   renardeau replied to bgxyrnf's topic in Emergency

   This is super delayed and but I tend to the visit this site in spurts and then leave in spurts... I was re-reading old threads that I got alerts from and just wanted to clarify. I truly don't believe that ED nurses are better or worse, but we do focu...
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    Frustrating... ED is Not Critical Care

    renardeau replied to bgxyrnf's topic in Emergency

    My ICU was a trauma I 800+ bed hospital and we precepted many different types of nurses from new grads to seasoned ICU nurses. For us, ED nurses (both ours and from other hospitals) always had the hardest time adjusting to ICU (sometimes more so than...
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    How old were you when you started CRNA school?

    renardeau replied to Nolander's topic in SRNA

    I started at 26 and will be 29 when I finish my doctorate 🙂
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    IV extensions

    renardeau replied to Dubs3035's topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes, I just add a little extension tubing with some stopcocks for this purpose---like a mini-carrier. If my patient is requiring enough drugs for a real carrier bar with ~5 stopcocks to be necessary, they usually have a central line (we usually...
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    What are you like as a patient/the sick one?

    renardeau posted a topic in Stress 101

    I'm currently incapacitated at home with little to no will to move. My lovely fiancé is my caretaker today as I make my way through the course of what appears to be either food poisoning or some stomach bug I find myself wondering how nurses are wh...
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    2017 CRNA School Applicants: General Thread

    renardeau replied to mrdearmas's topic in SRNA

    Sorry, I meant to reply and then I thought I'd just wait until after I interviewed everywhere so I could post a re-cap and then I sort of forgot for a while So all in all, I applied to 3 schools: Georgetown, UMD, Columbia, interviewed at all 3, and ...
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    University of Maryland (UMD) CRNA program starting in 2017

    renardeau replied to SirNurse's topic in SRNA

    SURFs did not change for me.