CRNAs and bathroom breaks...

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hello, all,

i was wondering if CRNAs get bathroom breaks. what do you do when you need to go to the bathroom?

how long is the average procedure and do you have time to go to the bathroom in between procedures? and again, what if you are IN a procedure and need to go? is there any kind of relief you can call?

i also wonder about bathroom breaks for all kinds of nursing, so all please feel free to comment, but i am especially interested in CRNAs and their experience.

thank you So much in advance! :)

Don't know where you work or went to school, but I have been doing this for ten years and have never heard of this. Really hope your joking. We joke about having iron bladders, but we get way more breaks than the surgeon or scrubs. And all you have to do is call out if you need a break. I hope no one reads this and actually thinks that this is how it is.

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Specializes in Anesthesia.

This thread is a joke, right? Bathroom humor is something for teenage boys and not professionals.

Sorry OP, but please consider another profession. If this is the only question you can think of, I can assure you being a CRNA is not even a close option for you.

I haven't posted on this forum for some time and am concerned about all of the posts about non-patient related issues. Maybe I should summarize my thoughts:

  • If money is the first thing you think of when you say you want to be a CRNA, forget it.
  • If your thoughts are about your comfort level, hours you work, working conditions, and time off, forget it.
  • If you are looking for shortcuts to get into school, forget it
  • If you are intellectually curious, have great grades in the sciences, enjoy one on one patient care, can quickly make the correct decisions, are emotionally secure, enjoy autonomy, can function WITHOUT policies, guidelines, protocols and supervision, have shadowed a CRNA and thought it was a wonderful day, have read Watchful Care, have checked out the AANA website, then you are the kind of person who will make a great CRNA and should go for it. I would welcome you into our wonderful profession.

Bread Angel

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Oh lighten up .

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Specializes in Anesthesia.

I will be happy to lighten up when the posts are intelligent.

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Then there is the issue of gas! Sitting on the tip of the suction does a remarkable job eliminating the vapors. Have used it many times and I don't even detect it. Ed

Yup... works like a charm...

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This thread is a joke, right? Bathroom humor is something for teenage boys and not professionals.

Sorry OP, but please consider another profession. If this is the only question you can think of, I can assure you being a CRNA is not even a close option for you.

I haven't posted on this forum for some time and am concerned about all of the posts about non-patient related issues. Maybe I should summarize my thoughts:

  • If money is the first thing you think of when you say you want to be a CRNA, forget it.
  • If your thoughts are about your comfort level, hours you work, working conditions, and time off, forget it.
  • If you are looking for shortcuts to get into school, forget it
  • If you are intellectually curious, have great grades in the sciences, enjoy one on one patient care, can quickly make the correct decisions, are emotionally secure, enjoy autonomy, can function WITHOUT policies, guidelines, protocols and supervision, have shadowed a CRNA and thought it was a wonderful day, have read Watchful Care, have checked out the AANA website, then you are the kind of person who will make a great CRNA and should go for it. I would welcome you into our wonderful profession.

Bread Angel

And I would like to add you must posses a sense of humor. Otherwise you are no fun to work with.

See above quote and think Res Ipsa Loquitur

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Specializes in Anesthesia.
And I would like to add you must posses a sense of humor. Otherwise you are no fun to work with.

See above quote and think Res Ipsa Loquitur

No problem with my sense of humor. It just gets old reading these posts from people who have no idea what anesthesia is about, except the money.

"The thing speaks for itself" is evident in more than just my postings.

BA

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Specializes in Anesthesia, CCU, ICU.

@ bread angel: any idea where to get a copy of Watchful Care as it's out of print?

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@ bread angel: any idea where to get a copy of Watchful Care as it's out of print?

It's sold at the AANA bookstore.

http://www.aana.com/books.aspx

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Bread angel,

Three years out of school I volunteered for three months at a hospital in Georgetown, Guyana. then in the 90's I spent 2 weeks a year for 10 years in a small out of the way hamlet in Haiti. Replicate that and then lecture me about money and gas! As stated earlier.. Lighten up. We're nurses who put the effort in to enter a more challenging specialty. We're not Supreme Court Justices. Ed

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Specializes in Anesthesia.

I can more than replicate that and then some. We don't know each other, so I won't pretend to comment on all of your experience, if you don't make assumptions about mine. I have come back to this site because I love to share ideas about the profession. But, there are much better forums on the net where fair exchange of ideas about nurse-anesthesia is encouraged and honored.

Bye bye

Bread Angel

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It's probably a good thing you haven't posted for quite some time. I always have to laugh when I hear the "holier than though" tone from senior CRNA's with experience. I must say you sound EXACTLY like the types of MD's that nurses complain about. EVERYONE is entitled to his or her opinion and is allowed to ask questions. Granted the OP may not have asked a "typical" question but as someone who has just been accepted to 3 top schools, I will be a SRNA shortly and have a complete and utter disdain for such small minded people as yourself who get to decide (at least YOU think so) what is and is not relevant and important.

I actually found the information useful as this is a practical issue. I found it utterly laughable the previous poster's idea of wearing depends. On an intellectual note, having been in my fair share of federal courtrooms and having graduated from arguably one of the 1 or 2 best B-school's in the world, I am dumbfounded by some of the particularly ignorant comments that are made by the many faceless and anonymous people on these boards. It's so funny how people don't act so righteous in person, at least not in my professional nursing experience.

Why are nurses so ready to "slam" each other and those entering the profession? I've rebuked many a colleague, both privately and publicly for poor behavior. That is OUR responsibility as a profession...and by the way...nursing..on the whole...is not the "profession" they make it out to be...at least not yet. The average level of intellect possessed (at least at the RN level) is on the average lower vis a vis other professions...i.e. physician, lawyer etc. I can't even begin to tell you how many nurses I have seen and heard with such extremely poor verbal and written communication skills (U.S. born included), not to mention sub par math skills. The nursing profession needs to address some of these items as it moves forward.

Well it's off of the soap box for now but you really made my blood boil when you attacked the OP, and I guess I'm trained to protect the rights of others.

Good luck to you.

And I would like to add you must posses a sense of humor. Otherwise you are no fun to work with.

See above quote and think Res Ipsa Loquitur

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