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I think I may contact two of the faculty and discuss my research ideas with them prior to applying. Thanks for the suggestion!

I am looking mostly for general advice regarding the process of applying to a PhD program, experiential wisdom. In addition, the program to which I am applying states that is is very research-oriented and requires a written research proposal with lit review. With that in mind, how important is it that my research question be aligned with the current research of the faculty? The faculty have "research interests" which encompass my research question, but no directly associated research. Thanks.

I will be working on my application to a nursing PhD program the next two months. ANY advice/suggestions would be extremely helpful. Thanks !

Hello! I am new to teaching pharmacology as well as new to teaching a lecture & lab course. My previous teaching experience has been in clinical only. Any advice/resources/links you all could offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Even interns are doctors. They are licensed by the state in which they are doing their residency. Residents and interns are not, however, board-certified. A resident's job is TO LEARN. Their learning curve can be pretty steep. Before the attending and/or senior resident goes home for the day usually he/she will chat with the on-call resident/intern to make sure all is lined up with regards to orders, discharges, etc. for their patients. Who you contact when you need to get an order or inform an MD about a pt's condition depends on if it is day/noc shift and who is on-call. Your nursing unit should be able to help you discern that info. I really enjoy working with interns and residents, most (not all) are hard-working people who are ready to learn. Remember, they can learn a LOT from nurses too, but I usually try to be casual and non- threatening about teaching them. Oh, also remember that interns and residents (esp. when on a difficult rotation) are oftern SLEEP DEPRIVED. If you do have to call them in the middle of the night, apologize. Usually i say something like "Hey Dr. (whatever), I'm sorry to wake you, but I really need to let you know about "blah blah blah". I have never had a Dr. (intern, resident or attending) be angry with me using this manner.

Thanks for the wish of luck. Did you by chance have any children while you were is school? If so, any advice or routines that worked well for you?

To answer 3230's ? and Raquel's ?. I worked at a Level one Trauma Center for 3 years in the PICU. RRTs who had advanced training and passed a hospital-designed exam on ECMO were called ECMO techs. The ECMO patient was thus cared for with 2:1 care by ECMO tech and RN. It's a small circle of people who do this type of care, so we helped each other out, within the limits of our legal scope of practice. (i.e., ecmo tech would help move patient when giving baths, help monitor hemodynamics.) I have a lot of respect for most of the ECMO techs I worked with. The only ones I did not care to work with were the techs who were too cavalier about what they were doing. (Being cavalier with ECMO just because it can get boring is folish and IMHO an indication of ignorance.) Raquel: We did have success at my institution with ECMO, but primarily ONLY when the guidelines for the initiation of ECMO were properly observed. Some of the peds CT surgeons used ECMO as a means of prolonging the patient's life in the face of nearly inevitable negative outcome; the pt. would clearly not meet the criteria for ECMO, yet the surgeons would put them on it anyway. Those are the patients that almost always died. I could go on and on about the medical ethics issue with regards to ECMO, but I'll refrain for now.

I emailed the director of the program regarding my ?'s on retaking any prereq's. She explicitly said that I do not have to retake the courses. That said, I personally believe if you took the courses and truly learned the material, then you should know the material and be able to apply to your profession (e.g., understanding oxyhemoglobin dissoc. curve helps to understand V:Q ratio and enable me to be a better ICU RN). I think it's best to understand the admission requirements for each program you apply to. As for me, choice of school is limited by location due to my DH's employment. Thanks again for the imput.

Thanks for the heads-up, and that was definently a concern of mine, but the only program I will be applying to in fact does not require that the pre-reqs be taken within the last 5 years. So I got lucky.

Hi ya'll. I'm new here. I'm a PICU RN considering CRNA school. I'm nervous about the idea of going back to school, as it has been about 10 years since I graduated. So, I'm reviewing my physiology and biochemistry in an effort to revitalize those old neurons from 10 years ago - agh!). Here's my question as it relates to anesthesia. What biochemical pathways/principles are essential to understand in order to learn anesthesia? Right now I've been reviewing oxyhemoglobin dis. curve and catecholamine systhesis. Any other ideas? I could just review all of biochem . . . but time is $ and I'd like to learn what I NEED to know first. Thanks for your help and thanks for a great forum!