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We have a ridiculous amount of ICU beds, and any ICU patient can get overflowed to a different ICU. Neuro takes surgical, medical takes cardiac, etc. If we are absolutely filled to the brim, they sit...

1) Killing off a fever isn't always a good thing. One of our fellows did a paper on this a while back. If they start showing some decompensation from a fever (tachycardia, excessive sweating leading...

From the anesthetists I know and the students I've talked with, including my own incoming class, being an overachiever seems commonplace. We always joke that someone is trying to be an overachiever...

Private loans are not always variable. I have a fixed rate with Wells Fargo. Sure a variable rate might not ever change, or actually go down, but it can get as high as 18%. Forget that. From what...

For those looking into COL loans, one thing to look into is Wells Fargo MEDCap loans. They are 7.29%, with no origination fees, and if you drop a few bucks into one of their savings accounts you can...

I was at a conference the other day where someone from the COA was saying they really need to define "critical care experience" before the expansion of DNP programs. I think that would be great, kind...

Were the NP's you worked with ICU nurses before they became NP's?

An absolute no-way-around-it requirement for CRNA school is working in an ICU as a bedside nurse for 1-2 years. NP experience will not be a substitute. I don't know of anyone in the last 3 years...

An insane amount. Add up your monthly bills and estimate tuition for two years, add some extra (maybe $3000) for school books, tests, organizational fees, conference fees. Another thing to...

I bought an iPad for the sole purpose of note taking in anesthesia school and discovered Dropbox, it's awesome! Any "cloud" type server will get the job done, such as Drive that was mentioned. I...

Also, regarding retaking courses, I have had numerous programs tell me retaking them at a university looks much better than retaking them at a community college. It can't hurt to ask the programs...

It depends on the school. Most schools usually want all your required pre-req sciences (chem, biology, A&P) to be within 10 years. The rest will say if you've retaken one within the last x number...

Yeah, it's nauseating to think about. But I try not to think about it too much. I'm working two jobs right now before I start school and I'm finally stashing away enough to be comfortable but I still...

This. No way around it.

Are you talking about hooking up a CVP to a Cordis? Measurement wouldn't be accurate, but you could use it to trend numbers I suppose. If you hook it up and have 0 and then give fluids and it...

I did my CCRN and buckled down on the EKG section. I'm really quite good with them now. Never took any formal classes on them, just studied a lot, asked lots of questions at work, and got a 12 lead...

If schools see that you did better as you progressed through college, it helps a lot. In your case, the BSN core courses with a higher GPA will help you stand out versus someone who had mediocre...

Grade points are a bare minimum. Pretty much everyone has A's or B's in their science courses, if you don't, you should be retaking them for your own good. Nobody looks at a calculated GPA. Most...

Oh, I thought you meant they were bringing them up from the ED with two Cordis' in the same site and leaving them like that for days. Traumas bleeding out is different than a liver failure/GI bleed....

Yeah, that sounds pretty shady. A Cordis is HUGE. Two in the same IJ is just asking for trouble in my opinion. Liver patients are usually the ones getting them, and their coagulopathy would have...

This question goes out to all practicing CRNA's. Any SRNA's might be able to have some useful input as well, so that would be appreciated! I am starting nurse anesthesia school in fall in an inner...

If you don't want to wait until 30 for kids, then nurse anesthesia might not be for you. There's tons of people on here who had kids going into anesthesia school, or had them during. Crazy mad...

Our hospital posts up the yearly ACLS courses available, and about every month or two there's an EP course. I don't have to retake ACLS until early next year, but I'll probably take the EP course...

I've heard of no such programs either. I've heard of some hospitals in the boonies that will give you a sign-on bonus/tuition forgiveness, but even those types of offers are scarce.

Most schools only accept full-time adult ICU experience, and peds/ED do not qualify. You can argue that you know how to titrate drips and had higher acuity patients than an adult ICU until you're...