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  1. Best career satisfaction, job outlook, and mobility

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      Certified registered nurse anesthetist
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      Physician Assistant
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      Family nurse practitioner

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Best career satisfaction and mobility...Tell me about your likes and dislikes if you are one of the above

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Anyone?

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

CRNA is most likely the highest pay check. Not sure about mobility. NPs have autonomy and some states can practice independent of a physician. Moving up? Not sure own your business perhaps. PAs must work under a physician. They make the same and sometimes more than NPs. Nowhere to move up as a PA though. Also, PAs train under the medical model so if that appeals to you then it's a quality job.

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Specializes in Anesthesia.

CRNAs consistently have the highest job satisfaction of any healthcare job. CRNAs can and do work independently all over the US. There is always high demand for experienced CRNAs. You can goto the AANA website for more information on CRNAs.

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wtbcrna,

I know this may not be the correct forum for this question, but I wanted to ask you a question directly related to my family member. He has prostate cancer was told he is a gleason 7. He also has sleep apnea and the oncologist is recommending that he not have a prostatecomy because of the fear of anesthesia with sleep apnea. Have you known of any situation that would prevent a patient from receiving general anesthesia due to sleep apnea?

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Specializes in Anesthesia.
wtbcrna,

I know this may not be the correct forum for this question, but I wanted to ask you a question directly related to my family member. He has prostate cancer was told he is a gleason 7. He also has sleep apnea and the oncologist is recommending that he not have a prostatecomy because of the fear of anesthesia with sleep apnea. Have you known of any situation that would prevent a patient from receiving general anesthesia due to sleep apnea?

It is against the rules on allnurses to answer that question, but I think this link will work for you. American Sleep Apnea Association | Sleep Apnea and Same-day Surgery

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ok thank you

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Specializes in Emergency.

I think best career satisfaction is going to be based on which of these careers better meets with your personal desires. There are people who are satisfied with many careers I would despise, and many would not want to do what I want to do. I think you will have to research these jobs and what they entail as well as try to figure out what types of things you want to do and then see which ones match up best to get the answer to what you are looking for.

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