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  1. Experienced CRNA...ask me anything

    06crna posted a topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Okay...If you've read my posts you know that I will be retiring soon. Now is your chance to ask a practicing CRNA anything. 12 years of experience from solo rural independent to medical-direction...

  2. Experienced CRNA...ask me anything

    06crna replied to 06crna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Carterjcr - Apologies, but I am not the right resource for your question re: DNP/DNAP. I obtained an MSN in early 2000, well before the transition to doctoral preparation for allied health providers....

  3. Experienced CRNA...ask me anything

    06crna replied to 06crna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Followup re: overheard conversation. It provides such insight into the politics and economics of mixed practices that I am going to post a few general takeaways: 1. The anesthesiologists are not...

  4. Experienced CRNA...ask me anything

    06crna replied to 06crna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Not over the public domain. You are welcome to private message

  5. Experienced CRNA...ask me anything

    06crna replied to 06crna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    FROM THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ANESTHESIOLOGIST ASSISTANTS WEBSITE FAQs 4. What are the differences between Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) and CAAs? Although both are considered to be equivalent clinical...

  6. Experienced CRNA...ask me anything

    06crna replied to 06crna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    After overhearing a frank conversation between anesthesiologists and administration, I can no longer support the AA role. I was naive. I feel empathy for AAs as people who want to make a good living...

  7. Experienced CRNA...ask me anything

    06crna replied to 06crna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I am not concerned about competition with AAs, I'm concerned that they are a tool of the ASA to diminish the CRNA role. CRNAs are limited to an AA role typically in practices with both CRNAs and AAs....

  8. Experienced CRNA...ask me anything

    06crna replied to 06crna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Thank you, Offlabel, for clarifying. Carry

  9. Experienced CRNA...ask me anything

    06crna replied to 06crna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I'm a third-year SRNA currently looking at jobs. I fall into the millennial generation. I have a very different perspective than the one you describe, as do many of my classmates. We had a recruiter...

  10. Experienced CRNA...ask me anything

    06crna replied to 06crna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    We agree we have different perspectives. "physician anesthesiologist" is a ridiculous title advanced by the ASA. The politics in this specialty and rhetoric from the ASA are

  11. Experienced CRNA...ask me anything

    06crna replied to 06crna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    1. Are you citing data that surveyed the majority opinion? 2. Your experience differs from mine. 3. Impossible to apply that statement to all situations/settings in which AAs work. 4. Our own...

  12. Experienced CRNA...ask me anything

    06crna replied to 06crna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Honestly? Both No and Yes. I will give one example of each. There are many more. 1. Because CRNAs who are discussing the fact that CRNAs can practice independently and AAs cannot are missing this...

  13. Experienced CRNA...ask me anything

    06crna replied to 06crna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Relatively

  14. Experienced CRNA...ask me anything

    06crna replied to 06crna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Offlabel - Correct. My interpretation. Not your words. That said... This statement of yours is a bit harsh, don't you think? "If you simply value procedures and paychecks" Otherwise. Agreed. I...

  15. Experienced CRNA...ask me anything

    06crna replied to 06crna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    To be clear: the halfwit ACT practice was CRNA/anesthesiologist medical-direction model employed by a large corporate anesthesia management company. Your two statements are unrelated. What is the...

  16. Experienced CRNA...ask me anything

    06crna replied to 06crna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Decades and decades. I know many anesthetists who are still practicing well into their 60s, though very few of those are working full-time, and none of them are taking call. I cannot think of any who...

  17. Experienced CRNA...ask me anything

    06crna replied to 06crna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Kind of you to post. Thank you. Keep that skepticism of the corporate model of healthcare, but also keep in mind that the vast majority of our patients haven't the slightest idea how our...

  18. Experienced CRNA...ask me anything

    06crna replied to 06crna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Offlabel! Have a care, please. Not all locums providers are carrion-picking money-grubbers. I am well-liked, well-regarded, and well-compensated for good

  19. Experienced CRNA...ask me anything

    06crna replied to 06crna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    One step at a time! Good

  20. Experienced CRNA...ask me anything

    06crna replied to 06crna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Congratulations on your acceptance! Re: change. Well. Frankly? I despised being treated like a halfwit on a daily basis when I was a staff CRNA in an ACT. So, leaving that behind was nice. I have had...

  21. Experienced CRNA...ask me anything

    06crna replied to 06crna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I must respectfully disagree. I am currently working alongside AAs and students from two AA programs in a large teaching facility. CRNAs and AAs function interchangeably in this facility. There are...

  22. Experienced CRNA...ask me anything

    06crna replied to 06crna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    There is a teachable moment here for aspiring and newly-practicing CRNAs. When you work for a physician-owned practice, which is a business model rapidly being replaced by anesthesia management...

  23. Experienced CRNA...ask me anything

    06crna replied to 06crna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    BRILLIANT. Period. The

  24. Experienced CRNA...ask me anything

    06crna replied to 06crna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I'm no help when it comes to verbal whatever-it-is you alluded to, but I am in graduate school currently. The academic ivory-tower non-applicable research I am forced to read is a daily eyeroll. This...

  25. Experienced CRNA...ask me anything

    06crna replied to 06crna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Kate, I cannot honestly answer that question. There are far too many individual variables. I will take a moment, though, to relay once again that CRNA programs are incredibly time-intensive...and your...