I was finally accepted into a tremendous Nurse Anesthesiology Program. Could not be happier :). That all being said I am looking for advice...
What can I do to set my-self apart from the masses... I want to rise to the cream of the crop and be an amazing provider. I want to be better than my classmates and be seen as the best of the best students.
I know staying late during rotations and fighting for the hardest surgeries will make me the best CRNA. What else can I do to set my-self apart from the other students?
I already am an RRT and am VERY comfortible with ventilators and ariways. I can't wait to get into some of the biggest cases! God Bless TIA.
Haha the ASA and AMA would love to get you as a spokesperson for them I'm sure. I'm not even going to bother explaining how your opinion is utterly ridiculous in terms of liability. Good luck in your profession.
To clarify, I've seen very well trained advanced practice nurses out perform quite a few physicians in certain scenarios. it's more from a liability standpoint than anything remotely related to nurse anesthetists (and psychiatric nurse practitioners, for that matter) not being intelligent enough to do the job solo. It should be mandatory for certain advanced practice arenas (CRNAs and PMHNPs) to have mandatory supervision (and maybe there's a better term for this in this particular instance. Help me out here if there is) to make sure we have something to fall back on in case sh*t hits the fan. Again, just my opinion.
I don't think the poster has ever done anesthesia, so I find the comments hilarious. There was a poster on these discussion boards about a year ago who failed out of CRNA school, but is now doing anesthesia residency...hmm, yep, CRNAs definitely aren't "intelligent enough to do the job solo." Ignorance is bliss I guess :)
I don't think the poster has ever done anesthesia, so I find the comments hilarious. There was a poster on these discussion boards about a year ago who failed out of CRNA school, but is now doing anesthesia residency...hmm, yep, CRNAs definitely aren't "intelligent enough to do the job solo." Ignorance is bliss I guess :)
You are correct that I have never done anesthesia. I also stated that my comments were, in fact, NOT due to well-prepared NPs and CRNAs not being able to function autonomously, but were instead from a liability perspective with our benefit in mind. Unfortunately, since this is all that seems to have been gleaned from my original post (which was intended to be directed at the OP gaining some humility), I am bowing out. And nope, still not ignorant.
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Haha the ASA and AMA would love to get you as a spokesperson for them I'm sure. I'm not even going to bother explaining how your opinion is utterly ridiculous in terms of liability. Good luck in your profession.