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  1. an interesting and somewhat ignorant article title

    DebbieSue replied to zrmorgan's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, 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....

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

    DebbieSue replied to KiwiAngel_18's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    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...

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

    DebbieSue replied to piper_for_hire's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    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...

  4. New Pro MDA resident training bill

    DebbieSue replied to MmacFN's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, 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,

  5. Anesthesia Information Sheets ROCK!

    DebbieSue replied to MmacFN's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, 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...

  6. I Am Back

    DebbieSue replied to yoga crna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, 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...

  7. Circ Arrest

    DebbieSue replied to rn29306's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, 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...

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

    DebbieSue replied to MmacFN's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, 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...

  9. List Serve Groups?

    DebbieSue replied to MmacFN's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    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....

  10. Here's what AAs really think of CRNAs

    DebbieSue replied to Athlein1's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, 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...

  11. CRNA Doctorate??

    DebbieSue replied to Brenna's Dad's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, 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...

  12. CRNA Doctorate??

    DebbieSue replied to Brenna's Dad's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, 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...

  13. CRNA Doctorate??

    DebbieSue replied to Brenna's Dad's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, 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,...

  14. CRNA Doctorate??

    DebbieSue replied to Brenna's Dad's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, 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...

  15. CRNA Doctorate??

    DebbieSue replied to Brenna's Dad's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, 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...

  16. CRNA Jobs for Adrenaline Junkies

    DebbieSue replied to ezra19742002's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    The urology doc was a guy who signed up of his own free will to help out the gals and guys putting themselves in harm's way everyday in Iraq. He felt it was his duty. He had a wife pregnant with...

  17. Alternative Loans - here's what I've found

    DebbieSue replied to ArkyCCRN's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I have two options in paying for anesthesia school. I am able to use IRA money with no penalty, and have more than enough to get me through anesthesia school with no debt. I would have to take out...

  18. CRNA Jobs for Adrenaline Junkies

    DebbieSue replied to ezra19742002's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    You guy's humor is pathetically twisted and I love it..... I'm kind of an adrenaline junkie, too, but it's one thing for me to say it and something different for someone who is clueless and not even...

  19. Recent bad experience with a program director.

    DebbieSue replied to MmacFN's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    There is no way that this guy's experience is not full blown critical care. Period. Trauma and CTICU experience, followed by flight nursing. Unless his ICU experience totalled less that about 1.5...

  20. Nurse dates doctor openly at work.

    DebbieSue replied to castle's topic in General Nursing

    Stuff like that is nobody else's business, but it always generates lots of gossip and outrage. And gets everyone riled up. That's what causes the problems. Let's face it, we get pretty close to...

  21. Need input on all three Southwestern PA programs

    DebbieSue replied to DebbieSue's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Thanks for the interesting point re: looking into a doctorate. I knew that not having to take the core APN courses wouldn't shorten the 28 months....maybe if the program were frontloaded, but it's...

  22. Need input on all three Southwestern PA programs

    DebbieSue posted a topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    There was a good amt of response to the question re: the Excela Health program. What about the Allegheny Valley Hospital/La Roche program? In fact, could you compare the three programs and grads,...

  23. Why can't you go straight to CRNA School from BSN?

    DebbieSue replied to KVYEng's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I think that, from now on on this forum, 'shiznit' is going to be an inside joke!! Priceless!! And as for not getting why ICU experience is necessary, that is purely a matter of not knowing what one...

  24. Balancing family and school

    DebbieSue posted a topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I am a single mom with 2 teenage daughters ages 13 and 15. What kind of hours does being in a CRNA program take? I'm mostly thinking of the evening hours. How many hours a day studying would you...

  25. Balancing family and school

    DebbieSue replied to DebbieSue's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    In the bottom left of my post I notice something that says: Warn (0%) and then 5 joined little tan boxes. Can anyone tell me what these