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Focker CRNA

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  1. THAM solution

    I think I used THAM once in the ICU, not seen it used yet in my time as a CRNA. My understanding of THAM was that, like you said, it is like a bicarb gtt, but it doesn't metabolize back into CO2. If you give bicarb to anyone on an end tidal CO2 monit...
  2. 50" plasma, snowboard trip to Utah
  3. Paralytic Question

    Haha, I love your use of terminology redcell, I'm going to incorporate that into my practice (CRNAs love when you tell them that). But on a serious note, I didn't hear anything new about sugamadex, as far as I was hearing, it was doing great in tria...
  4. I took the certification exam today- yikes!

    I don't personally know of anyone who has failed after only 100 questions, but for sure it has happened, though I doubt its a common occurrence. I felt the same way you did after taking just a 100 questions, all my classmates I've talked to said the...
  5. Study Help!!!!

    If you think all 81 chapters are pertinent, the only way you could break that much material down is to set a reading schedule over the next 2 months and stick with it. 2 months = 60 days = 1.3 chapters every single day. If you stick with it, only 1 o...
  6. Just took the Big test

    For me, the actual course itself wasn't much help, not really worth the cost. But the materials, sweat book and memory master, are definitely helpful. You could definitely get by without the class.
  7. Just took the Big test

    I just finished taking the CCNA examination after like two months of studying valley nonstop. It cut off at 100, so that should be a good thing. maybe:no: I am not going to get into specific questions because I would like them to not bar me for life,...
  8. Have a 3.5 GPA- Is it enough???

    Haha, the interviews at case western for next year just got a little more interesting
  9. GPA and Grades for CRNA

    Dude, you have a masters degree. I think that nullifies your undergrad grade struggles. It shows you've matured. If you do as well in the ABSN program that you get into as you did for your master's degree, you'll be golden.
  10. Ccrn

    I'd go ahead and take it, besides the fact that it can only help you get into anesthesia school, your current employer should pay for you to take it, and there may be a pay raise for completing it. Just study the questions from a review book and take...
  11. One year of nursing experience not required

    I'm in the Duke program, maybe a typo or something, but at least one year of ICU experience is definitely required. I don't think a nurse anesthesia program exists that doesn't have that requirement.
  12. Maintaining CCRN license during school?

    I'm letting mine lapse, I don't see the point in keeping it
  13. crna school and iv skills

    I know everyone else says you have to have it down before going to school, but I can tell you that I had minimal IV skills when I started CRNA school. Like a few other people have said, my ICU patients had central lines a lot of the time or they came...
  14. People who took GREs.....

    They are pretty much the same test. I got almost the same score on both, though that is probably more coincidence than anything else since I took them years apart, obviously.
  15. How is it determined that a pt. has had awareness when they have no recall of it? Many of the accounts I hear from pts (a good example is the tkr in one of the above posts) are examples of awareness during a mac case, not general. That could be part...