high my name is karla and i am a senior in high school. i am strongly thinking about pursuing a career as a crna. but i have no clue what exactly to do after high school other than i need to go to college. i have looked up information on them...but can not seem to find the information i am looking for. what i am wondering is how you like your job as a crna, what schooling did you go through, who you all work with and possibly what you might all do in any given day, and if you wouldn't mind telling me...your salary (optional). this will help me out a lot so any help i can get from anyone will be great!
Hey Kiteman, I don't know what you do for a living, but get back to us when you've put in 45 years of practice with people's lives in your hands. I'd love to see you sweat when someone's airway is gone and everyone looks to you to get a tube down their throat to save their life. Or when their blood pressure bottoms out to a level that is incompatible with life and YOU are the person who has to decide, within seconds, what drug to give to save them. Seriously, who are you to "put someone in their place" You do your job and we'll stick to ours. Are you a CRNA?? Obviously not or you would NEVER criticize an older, most intelligent practictioner who was just giving insight to a young person trying to decide what they want to do with their life. You need to go back and read that post again with a little less preconcieved bias.
WOW you've got some balls. why don't you work for the SWAT, make 40k a year, and put your life on the line every day while being in charge of saving other's lives. it doesn't matter if your patient dies or not, you still get 145k a year. i think you should take a step back and realize just how silly YOU sound. i only hope your ass gets sued for malpractice when you make that mistake, and you lose your job. i'm not saying i wish that of any CRNA, i'm just saying that comparative to someone in the SWAT possibly losing their life to save another's life, i think at the least you would deserve to lose your CRNA license if you were to kill a patient with your practice. i mean really, have you ever thought about that? someone in a 145k risk-free job environment does not equal someone in a 40k complete-risk job.
It Matters To Me!!! How Insensitive! Risk free? Mr. SWAT, you know absolutely nothing about my career and I know nothing about yours, but I'm not on a SWAT team member post now am i? Do you even know that all of us put in many years working as RN's in an ICU and then spend thousands of dollars trying to further our knowledge to insure YOUR safety when you need a life saving procedure. What you do is very honorable and YES you should be paid better, I'm not bashing your career, so please stop bashing mine. And wishing that I get sued........I would never wish that on anyone
It Matters To Me!!! How Insensitive! Risk free? Mr. SWAT, you know absolutely nothing about my career and I know nothing about yours, but I'm not on a SWAT team member post now am i? Do you even know that all of us put in many years working as RN's in an ICU and then spend thousands of dollars trying to further our knowledge to insure YOUR safety when you need a life saving procedure. What you do is very honorable and YES you should be paid better, I'm not bashing your career, so please stop bashing mine.
not bashing your career...hell, not even talking to you. i'm talking about a CRNA saying they earn every penny they make when that is a VERY INSENSITIVE statement.
i completely respect CRNAs and what they do. i'm only point a finger at those who try to belittle every other existing job out there. that's all. so pretty much every other post is only asking for a nice little rebuttal. stop now while you've got your experience that defines your reputation.
Hey, I was just wondering, on average how many years do MS Nurse anesthesia programs want in their applicants? How many years did any of you SRNA or CRNAs have before you got accepted? Thanks...
Hey, I was just wondering, on average how many years do MS Nurse anesthesia programs want in their applicants? How many years did any of you SRNA or CRNAs have before you got accepted? Thanks...
AANA required one year of critical care experience. The students in my program have anywhere from a year to 20 years.
Reading Yoga's post, I walked away with the impression that she/he was trying to say that it is a difficult field and are compesated accordingly. Although at the same time sounded as if she/he were saying " not for you if you don't want to work hard and unable to handle that kind of responsiblity". In which case I thought was an irrelevant comment to the OP. For goodness sake, the OP had already commented that she was at one time thinking about becoming a heart surgeon. Sometimes I wonder if replying posters actually read what the OP is trying to say. I can understand why Yoga made the comment about not asking for people in general what their salary is. The OP is 17 and may not realize this. Recommendations on web sites for this information was a nice alternative.
by chance have you strolled over from the doctor board????
no...
i still think it's silly not to tell someone your salary when you're in a field that has a pretty definitive salary. maybe if you were in sales and didn't want to justify how good/bad of a salesman you were by disclosing that financial information, or maybe if you were a lawyer or in a type of profession where salaries fluctuate, but nursing, come on.
either way, the first comment wasn't what got me, it was the second. it takes a lot of pride to say that a 200k risk-free job earns what they make, when there are people out there everyday putting their life on the line (or at least sweating!) that don't earn a quarter of that. once again, i don't knock on CRNAs, only the ones that think they are equivalent to gods.
I agree i dont know how this topic turned into a bash against CRNAs. I'm a SRNA and I thought Yoga CRNA was being very kind in offering information to a younger student interested in the profession. Lucy 54 thank you for stickin up for yourself and in no way were you being insensitive or belittling anyones career. I am not one to make waves, but i had to stick up for my future profession. It seems like everyone likes to blame nurse anesthetists for EVERYTHING. As for you kiteman, my boyfriend (Who is a cop, by the way!) was reading this forum with me and would like to appologize to Yoga CRNA and Lucy54 for all of your rude/ignorant comments. We both work hard for a living and should respect each others professions for we both may need to help one another in the future.
I had a good feeling that kiteman was a cop. Man he sounds really unhappy, and angry, almost bitter. Do not take your bitterness out on us CRNAs. Lucy54 please pursue your dreams. Being a CRNA is a great career. I love what I do, and I love where I work. Not many people can say that. I plan to go to my son's high school later on this year to discuss a CRNA career with the juniors as not many highschool students are informed about a career as a CRNA. Hats off to you for being informed. Listen to what Yoga CRNA said as he is trying to give you guidance on how to approach the situation, and your defending him has earned you a lot of points in my book as it attests to you displaying a level of maturity that i would not expect at your age.
I am not a CRNA yet, but am planning on becomming one in the future. One thing that I would have to say that sort of shocked me was the negative attitude that a lot of people have toward this career. Before visiting this site, I didnt know that there is a big pissing contest going on in areas of the US with CRNA's and MD's. I was also not aware pror to this that some people take such a hostile stance toward CRNA's. Its shocking to me honestly. I by no means think that CRNA's are god, nor any other area of medicine or any other profession for that matter. Everything in life is relative and therefore you may think differently when it effects you directly. I work in a CVICU, and would have to say that if I were in need of surgery, I would prefer the CRNA over the Anesthiologist for care if I were put in a situation to choose. I think that a majority of the people being critical dont have a good idea of what a CRNA actually does or deals with. I work in a CVICU that serves as both a recovery room and an ICU for cardiac surgical patients and I would have to say that dealing with some of the issues I deal with on a daily basis have made me feel greatly underpaid in many cases. I didnt take this thread as anyone was saying a CRNA's job is more important then anything else out there, but maybe I didnt read it thoroughly. SWAT is an important job, being a teacher is an important job............being a paramedic, trash man, lawyer, plumber,ect...........they are all important. They all serve a very necessary part of a functioning society, and in some cases these jobs dont pay what they deserve to be paid, however that doesnt mean that the people (CRNA's) who are responsible for a vast amount of knowledge of dangerous drugs and procedures and being able to troubleshoot life threatening problems in seconds to minutes should be made out to be less then what they deserve.
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WOW you've got some balls. why don't you work for the SWAT, make 40k a year, and put your life on the line every day while being in charge of saving other's lives. it doesn't matter if your patient dies or not, you still get 145k a year. i think you should take a step back and realize just how silly YOU sound. i only hope your ass gets sued for malpractice when you make that mistake, and you lose your job. i'm not saying i wish that of any CRNA, i'm just saying that comparative to someone in the SWAT possibly losing their life to save another's life, i think at the least you would deserve to lose your CRNA license if you were to kill a patient with your practice. i mean really, have you ever thought about that? someone in a 145k risk-free job environment does not equal someone in a 40k complete-risk job.