brainfreeze

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1. info needed from current crna's, please....Is it boring????

   brainfreeze replied to tamm1's topic in CRNA

   Tamm, I personally let similar advice re: CRNA's keep me from going after my initial desire to follow anesthesia as a career choice. I heard the same thing re: the job being boring, lacking any true "nursing" (which I could argue most nursing jobs ac...

2. What is beyond the CRNA position?

   brainfreeze replied to Terpole's topic in CRNA

   Badass, to say that we are trained technicians is quite insulting, it is like saying that anyone can be taught to perform these "tasks" and implies that we do not use our judgement while performing our duties. Also, in my opinion it implies we are ig...

3. Questions regarding Duke's CRNA program

   brainfreeze replied to Williams RN's topic in CRNA

   Hi Williams, I just found out that I was accepted at Duke also, and was just perusing the realtor ads via the internet. Its really hard when your not familiar with the area. If you get any good advise on a safe ( I have two kids) area, please let me...

4. Nurse Anesthesia and family?

   brainfreeze replied to OURN83's topic in CRNA

   i just have to reply to you that if anesthesia is a dream of yours, i think it will be worth the initial sacrifice. i currently have a three year old and a one year old. i really had to consider how time consuming anesthesia school would be, but thou...

5. Anyone heard from Duke, yet?

   brainfreeze replied to brainfreeze's topic in CRNA

   Duke called me today and left a message regarding setting up an interview, but of course, as fate would have it, I was out of the house and have to work tommorrow, so I won't know when my interview is until Monday, but at least the waiting is over. U...

6. Anyone heard from Duke, yet?

   brainfreeze posted a topic in CRNA

   I applied at Duke, just getting everything in right before the deadline, and I was just wondering who else applied and whether they have heard anything re: an interview as of yet. Maybe we could all be anxious together.

7. chemistry and physics

   brainfreeze replied to ccusherry's topic in CRNA

   You will probably need to do some research, I took the upper division (pre-med) version, but is sounds as though you have an excellent background for the class. I didn't take the "pre-nursing" chemistry initially either though, honestly because it an...

8. chemistry and physics

   brainfreeze replied to ccusherry's topic in CRNA

   I am currently applying to three different anesthesia schools, and I took organic chemistry, and even the ones who don't require it are very impressed that I took it (and made an A) because they can use it as a predictor or future success. I also hea...

9. How much experience do I need? DUKE?

   brainfreeze posted a topic in CRNA

   Hi, I am currently in the application process to three different anesthesia schools, with the first being Duke for January 2006. I have been a nurse for 5 years, but only full time in the units for the past 7 months. I will have met the year requirem...