ACNP

I adamantly APPLAUD you for standing up for yourself and taking charge of your personal health! This is exactly what is wrong with the nursing profession today!! Why can't we look out for ourselves and protect ourselves? Who knows what diseases this ...

Ask a CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist) at your facility. We are trained to insert and monitor arterial lines. It is much like placing a 20g angiocath, except in an artery.

Is there any way to contact the nurse anesthesia students ahead of you in your NA program? Perhaps you could send out an e-mail when you get a list of everyone in your program asking if anyone is willing to part with theirs. I know a few of the gradu...

How about an anesthesia resource book/card? The Handbook of Anesthesiology 2008 edition by Mark Ezekiel is a great resource that I carry with me in the OR. It's a down and dirty quick facts book. You can get it spiral bound as well at Kinko's and als...

Please do not believe this CRNA! I am a senior student in a nurse anesthesia program in Virginia and believe me there are tons of job opportunities. I graduate in Dec. 2008 and I get asked everyday in clinical where I'm going to work or if I've signe...

Hi AmandaSRNA, The Handbook of Anesthesiology by Mark Ezekiel (the 2008 edition just came out) helped me a lot when writing my careplans. It has a lot of the anesthetic implications for ex. HTN, COPD, DM, Renal Failure, Obesity, Latex allergy, etc. I...

Hi lacedmm1, I attend Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. The Anatomy Camp is something that the school started 2 years ago to help with our regional semester. We travel to East Tennessee State University for 4 days and use their cadave...

My program has its SRNAs keep an Excel spreadsheet of all the cases you perform. The minimum required cases is 550 with 650 preferred. I think we are also required like 800 hours of anesthesia time. We also keep track of the different types of cases,...

At my current NA program we have a regional semester where we cover everything from spinals, epidurals, peripheral blocks, local anesthetics, acute/chronic pain, and regional complications. We also attend an Anatomy Camp at the beginning of the summe...

There is a former RT in my CRNA program. I believe he worked as an RT for several years before obtaining his BSN. He then worked as a critical care RN for about 2 years before applying to the program. He has helped me several times in explaining pulm...

Hi Micugirl, First off, hang in there and don't withdraw. CRNA school is too hard to get accepted! I, too, am in my first rounds of clinical rotation except we have class 3 days/week and clinicals the other 2 days. I'm only on my 2nd clinical site bu...

Okay, here goes. From the dinner/lecture I attended the most common side effects from Cymbalta were nausea, constipation, and dry mouth (anti-cholinergic effects) in the studies. The nausea should subside within the first week. The speaker also kept ...

I work with pain management patients. I prescribe a lot of Cymbalta due to the SNRI effects. A lot of my patients have the depression, sleeplessness, as well as pain. It also works well with neuropathic type pain (numbness, tingling, burning, sharp, ...

Hi! I feel your stress and exhaustion. Have you thought about working agency in your area? I was in the same predicament when I graduated from nursing school and had to start paying back student loans and wanting to live decent. When I would work age...

If you need something else to discuss in your essay you might talk about how NPs aid in health promotion, disease prevention, and thereby decreasing hospitalization expenditures and rising healthcare costs. As a NP you are not only able to diagnose a...

Speaking from the perspective of a NP who used to deal with pain management patients, have you informed your present pain MD about calling in these Lortab prescriptions? If so, have you also set up a narcotic contract? Honestly, I would have pressed ...

After reading these posts I felt that I must respond for all those non-breastfeeding women out there. I delivered my baby 5 days before my last semester of nurse practitioner school began. I had decided early on that I was not even going to attempt t...

Check out the website http://www.drnatura.com which offers an herbal supplement program (Colonix cleansing) to help with some of your symptoms. IBS is listed as one of the things it supposedly helps with. Even though I don't suffer from IBS, I am cur...

Keep your head up and try not to let this incident discourage you from nursing. You can report the incident to your supervisor and risk management at your facility. When I was working as an ICU staff nurse we had a physician who used to yell, scream,...

It's totally up to you when you want to attend graduate school. For me, I swore when I graduated that I was never going back! I was ready to earn more money that was I was making as a CNA and start repaying my student loans. Then, I felt the need to ...

If you want to do pediatric NP, then find a school that offers that. University of Kentucky where I received my ACNP (Acute Care Nurse Practitioner) offers a Pediatric NP program. FNP is also an option where you can see babies, kids, teenagers, adult...