My Day Shadowing

[fotografe]

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 ), 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.

[rn29306]

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.

[ORaddict]

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!!

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

[apaisRN, RN, CRNA]

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.