As a CRNA, sometimes I send patients to ICU with NGTs in. If surgery was abdominal in nature (upper/lower/even GU surgeries) and not laparoscopic, I always have the surgeon physically check that my NGT is in appropriate postion and then I chart it o...
Just be sure, during your interview, be able to answer the question, "Why would you shadow an anesthesiologist when you want to be a CRNA?" You do understand, don't you, why you would need a good answer for this?
I have had 2 surgeries and I'm sorry, I feel it's my right to gift those who gave me excellent care during those difficult times. I don't feel it's unprofessional at all to accept a gift and who's to know if you gifted them or not unless they tell? ...
I would not have been surprised at all, given the current "anti-union" attitudes in politics lately. Teachers, firefighters and now nurses are being criticizised by those who think "we" get too much. If you don't believe it, google Wisconsin/Ohio s...
In the 19 years I've been practicing anesthesia, I've never "hurried the surgeon along." I am not a surgeon and cannot and will not tell them how to do their job and they do not tell me how to do my anesthetic. We provide anesthesia for as long as ne...
Steve, You should probably get the PD's name right in your post, it's right at the end of her response to you.....Monika Feeney, CRNA, MS: not Dr. Freeley.
skipaway replied to kool-aide, RN's topic in General Nursing
I ask them what they liked to be called. As a CRNA, when waking up a patient, hearing the name they usually go by makes it easier. My pet peeve is when a collegue walks up to an obviously elderly patient and says, "Hey young man or hey young lady"...
skipaway replied to shannonFNP's topic in Emergency
Rapid Sequence induction is giving an hypnotic such as Pentothal, Propofol, Etomidate, Ketamine, Brevital followed immediately with Succinylcholine or a large dose of a non-depolarizer (Rocuronium is the most common). Cricoid pressure is sometimes b...
skipaway replied to shannonFNP's topic in Emergency
Etomidate's duration of action is much shorter than 20-30 min. It is actually 3-10 minutes. Sedation should be quickly started after intubation of a critically ill patient. The OP has a right to be concerned.
I'm confused, are they not teaching you in practicum how to do this assessment? Do you have a physical assessment book? Have you not practiced the questions to ask and the physical aspects seen in the assessment of the breast/thorax? Do they give ...