jskibis

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1. drug addictions?

   jskibis replied to Jedav's topic in CRNA

   For those of you who are following this thread: 1. Have any of you ever worked with an untreated addict? (I have) 2. Information I have read also mentions a greater risk of drug use in people whose parents were substance (including alcohol) abuser...

2. Turnover times

   jskibis replied to jskibis's topic in CRNA

   Thanks for the input, at our place, we(CRNAs) are the ones who are responsible for putting the patient in the room. I drop off the first patient in PACU and go directly to holding to pick up the next patient. Not infrequently the next patient hasn't...

3. Turnover times

   jskibis posted a topic in CRNA

   This concerns current CRNAs out there, our current MD/boss is wanting to use "incentives". One of the big items he wants to use to measure our "worthiness" for a cash bonus is to collect turnover times between cases for a year and then reward us ne...

4. Smsu

   jskibis replied to bubba's topic in CRNA

   So many questions! The biggest clinical class is 6 students, sometimes less. The class that just started had 1 person out of the 6 that worked at St. Johns. GRE plays a role in admittance, especially since the folks in the Biomed Dept at SMSU, 180...

5. Smsu

   jskibis replied to bubba's topic in CRNA

   Hi Bubba, I'm a clinical instructor there ( I also graduated from there 15 years ago)! What would you like to know about us? I can tell you that you will work hard in school,but will graduate with twice as many cases as are required to take boards, a...

6. Difficult Cases

   jskibis replied to jfpruitt's topic in CRNA

   How about tiny neonates? The ones with multiple anomalies? you have to stop and calculate every time you need to give a drug. Their airways are the scariest plus they are the ones who can go down the tubes the fastest. They get my vote for the mo...

7. CRNA Drug Addiction

   jskibis replied to speed's topic in CRNA

   Its interesting that some people think that signing out narcotics is in anyway going to prevent someone from diverting drugs! The "paper trail" is one of the last clues to alert anyone to the problem. Certain people are going to be more at risk: so...

8. CRNA Practice World Wide

   jskibis replied to CoreyB's topic in CRNA

   Go to aana.com, there is a link to international federation of nurse anesthetists, which represents CRNAs in about 30 countries.