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My Day Shadowing

I am still a nursing student, but my instructor allowed me to shadow a CRNA today (actually, several). If you are considering Anesthesia school, go do this. I plan to do it more than once.

I was able to see placement of spinal anesthesia for a c-section (I got woozy on that one :uhoh3: ), general on a patient in an extended surgery, an induction for ENT surgery, and another spinal for a c-section.

I am very attracted to the idea of working as a CRNA. The work looks like what I want to do. I like the intensity and the focus on one patient. I like the autonomy and decision making the CRNA has/does. I am amazed by the technology. I am amazed at the interpersonal skills the CRNAs have. No one needs more caring than someone in unbearable pain or about to undergo a scary procedure.

I think I need to go watch a dozen more spinals so the wooziness disappears, but I think more than ever, this is the right path for me.

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I'm finishing up my last year of CRNA school and I once got sick right before getting into BSN school one day at the vet's office watching a cat get spayed / neutered. What you gotta do is condition yourself over time.

I bought a book on traumas from an EMS standpoint, mostly pictures of what happed and how they presented. Man I couldn't even get through the first page at the beginning. Over time, I could eat while looking at that book. It's just a conditioned response you have to get over. Not to brag, but I haven't run into anything in anesthesia that makes me sick. If you can make it through ICU doing all that nasty stuff and I ain't gonna go into detail here, anesthesia school is easy. You have a mask on and nobody really expects much from you from a poo perspective. You can always grab the head and whatever airway device you have in place and say, "I got the airway." Hehe.

I'm finishing up my last year of CRNA school and I once got sick right before getting into BSN school one day at the vet's office watching a cat get spayed / neutered. What you gotta do is condition yourself over time.

I bought a book on traumas from an EMS standpoint, mostly pictures of what happed and how they presented. Man I couldn't even get through the first page at the beginning. Over time, I could eat while looking at that book. It's just a conditioned response you have to get over. Not to brag, but I haven't run into anything in anesthesia that makes me sick. If you can make it through ICU doing all that nasty stuff and I ain't gonna go into detail here, anesthesia school is easy. You have a mask on and nobody really expects much from you from a poo perspective. You can always grab the head and whatever airway device you have in place and say, "I got the airway." Hehe.

LOL!!!:chuckle

"I got the airway!" Priceless. I'm going to use that one day, I swear I am!! :devil:

I haven't even started nursing school yet, but I do have a first aid book with some pretty gnarly pics in it that I look at occasionally. Avulsions and punctures and the like. I totally need an EMS book. Thanks for the tip!!

Becca

Totally irrelevant comment:

today the circulator did a VERY zealous prep of our abd hyst patient - Betadine to her chin. The scrub tech said "you've got her prepped airway to orifice!" Maybe you had to be there but the whole room cracked up.

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