CRNA ranked #15 by CNNMoney.com Top 50 jobs in America

[profstudent4life]

...and PA #2, Nurse Practitioner #4, Anesthesiologist #11...

Top 50 rank: 15

Sector: Healthcare

What they do: Nurse Anesthetists work with Anesthesiologists to help administer anesthesia for patients prior to surgery, monitor and adjust the levels of anesthesia during surgery, and oversee the health of patients post-surgery.

Do Nurse Anesthetists have great jobs, or what?

Nurse Anesthetist stats:

Pay Median salary:

• (experienced): $157,000
  
• Top pay: $214,000
  
• Opportunity: 10-year job growth
  
• (2006-2016): 23% Total jobs
  
• (current): 19,000 Online want ad growth
  
• (April 2009-August 2009): 30% Quality of life ratings Personal satisfaction, Job security, Future growth, Benefit to society, Low stress
  

From the November 2009 issue

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/2009/snapshots/15.html

[Andrew, RN]

How do they figure it is "low stress?" lol

[Young-one]

They don't it got a D for stress levels. Idk how it got A's across the bored versusother jobs with Cs and low pay and yet those are ranked like sixth?

[PostOpPrincess, BSN, RN]

Low stress? Wha..........?????

[aCRNAhopeful]

Did you see the debate already brewing about how the article described that CRNAs work with Anesthesiologists? That prompted some quick controversy in no time. And it said that the job got a D (as in letter grade D) for low stress, meaning of course that it is a high stress job.

[profstudent4life]

I missed that part re:the debate. Was that on the website or somewhere else?

[aCRNAhopeful]

On my screen there is a facebook debate right underneath the article. Mostly it's just people clarifying that CRNAs dont only work under MDAs but also work autonomously.

[loveanesthesia]

It's striking that many of the top 50 jobs are in health care.