jcgcrna

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1. Feeling Guilty (calling in sick)

   jcgcrna replied to RaggedyRN's topic in General Nursing

   Your employer hired you not your kids (or husband, truck, animals). You have a duty to those who pay you. Get someone to take care of your other business or take vacation time. I have no empathy for those who carelessly dump on their colleagues fo...

2. Discrimination Against Men in Nursing

   jcgcrna replied to Demonsthenes's topic in Men

   I've seen the opposite, ie people deferring to the men in many more situations than the descrimination noted in the protracted article. Been a nurse for 36 years in med cens and rural places. I think we make mountains out of mole hills when we publ...

3. What kind of nursing do you do????

   jcgcrna replied to dspring's topic in Men

   Nurse Anesthesia, solo. When I retire (soon I hope), I'd love to do some hands on nursing on the acute care ward in our 15 bed rural hospital. I have been giving anesthesia for 28 years and miss the nursing I was trained to do in the 60's. I'd eve...

4. Does the term 'Nurse' bother you?

   jcgcrna replied to Ekklesia's topic in Men

   I constantly have to remind patients that I am a nurse anesthetist, not an anesthesiologist. I am very proud to be a nurse, trained long and hard to be one and have fed my family well being one. Guys that don't introduce them selves as nurses lose ...

5. NP or CRNA College maybe I should forget about BSN

   jcgcrna replied to carveronica's topic in Pre-Nursing

   By the time you would have graduated with your BsN, finished 2 years of post graduate clinical in either ER, OR, ICU...you'd be 46. With six kids, and 46: anesthesia would be a very difficult 2-3 years. I'd not suggest it. Family comes first and w...

6. OR Narcotic Waste

   jcgcrna replied to Endorphin's topic in CRNA

   In our one OR very small rural hospital the OR nurse witnesses the waste of all my narcotics. We then go to the pixys and account for it there.

7. What kind of nursing do you do????

   jcgcrna replied to dspring's topic in Men

   Anesthesia nursing for the last 26 years. Prior to that ICU-CCU. Guys, I wake up every mirning looking forward going to work. Most people can't make that claim and really mean it. Craig