DebbieSue

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1. an interesting and somewhat ignorant article title

   DebbieSue replied to zrmorgan's topic in CRNA

   I totally agree. I read the article, and found the silence re: CRNAs to be absolutely deafening. Didn't say anything bad about them, mind you, just completely and totally ignored their existence. Very subtle, very potent.

2. Starting clinical; need new shoes! Please help!

   DebbieSue replied to KiwiAngel_18's topic in SRNA

   My vote is for Anywears. I have been an ICU RN for almost 30 years and was developing plantar fasciaitis, or something causing real bad heel pain. I got a pair of Anywears, and have never looked back. I have something like 8 pair in different colo...

3. Who's applied or is planning to apply this summer?

   DebbieSue replied to piper_for_hire's topic in SRNA

   I am applying to 3. Have sent in application to 2. Third wanted me to send the recommendations with the app., so had to wait for the last of 3 recommendations. Second week in June the CT surg director mailed out the recommendations. So, 2 of the...

4. New Pro MDA resident training bill

   DebbieSue replied to MmacFN's topic in CRNA

   Maybe they are trying to get twice as much reimbursement because it is twice as hard to teach anything to an anesthesiology resident ;) JUST KIDDING, people, REALLY.

5. Anesthesia Information Sheets ROCK!

   DebbieSue replied to MmacFN's topic in CRNA

   Hey Mike, congrats on getting into school..... I've been off the boards awhile, sort of in seclusion during the few weeks before and after my 'sadiverary', but today seemed ready to resume life. I got those anesthesia sheets a month or so ago. They...

6. I Am Back

   DebbieSue replied to yoga crna's topic in CRNA

   I was pissed off by the Lidocaine thread, but most especially about the organ donation/anesthesia thread. My mouth dropped open when I read that one. How anyone with that degree of ignorance could get into anesthesia school in the first place made ...

7. Circ Arrest

   DebbieSue replied to rn29306's topic in CRNA

   I don't know anything about this from an anesthesia standpoint, but as a long-time CTICU RN at a tertiary-quad care cardiovascular care center, I have cared for lots of these pts. I find it fascinating that the patient is, for all intents and purpos...

8. Had my interview Figured u guys would be interested :P

   DebbieSue replied to MmacFN's topic in CRNA

   Holy crap! They really nailed you. Well, my CV has 28+ years as a CC nurse and my CV nursing MSN, so I better remember every arcane thing I ever knew and forgot about the heart! :chuckle Digging out the grad school notes....OMG, they may ask me ab...

9. List Serve Groups?

   DebbieSue replied to MmacFN's topic in SRNA

   You would probably love CCM-L.org. It is the Critical Care Medicine List. Quite a fair number of anesthesiologist/intensivists and RNs, and RRTs, and surgeons, etc. etc., from all over the world. Extremely active group, intelligent, rambunctious. Its...

10. Here's what AAs really think of CRNAs

    DebbieSue replied to Athlein1's topic in CRNA

    This damned horse has been kicked over and over and *someone* keeps resuscitating it..... Will someone PLEASE shoot it in the head and put it out of it's (my, our) misery. WHERE are the moderators of this forum????

11. CRNA Doctorate??

    DebbieSue replied to Brenna's Dad's topic in CRNA

    Mke, you are not thinking in the advanced practice mode yet. The core courses in the MSN programs are not 'fluff'. If you only look at it all from a putting-people-to-sleep aspect, they might not help you do that any better. Masters level core co...

12. CRNA Doctorate??

    DebbieSue replied to Brenna's Dad's topic in CRNA

    The point that Jen and Vicky are missing is that the DNP is being created specifically to replace the advanced practice MSN level of education. This is the whole point: advanced practice RNs practice at a very high level. Let's put them on an even ...

13. CRNA Doctorate??

    DebbieSue replied to Brenna's Dad's topic in CRNA

    Well, if the DNP does not take off nationally, it will be because the current Masters-prepared APNs will put up a fight. In every article I have read about the DNP, the one question everyone asks is, "What about the current APNs?" I have a friend ...

14. CRNA Doctorate??

    DebbieSue replied to Brenna's Dad's topic in CRNA

    I don't see any reason why any time should be added to the current educational programs in order to convert them from MSwhatever to DNP. I think that the DNP acknowledges that the level of practice is very high, certainly equivalent at least to chir...

15. CRNA Doctorate??

    DebbieSue replied to Brenna's Dad's topic in CRNA

    The move toward making the DNP the standard ed. level for all advanced practice RNs is the 'next big thing'. I, for one, agree with it. First of all, it's about time that there is a CLINICAL doctorate in nursing. In this case the 'NP' in DNP stand...