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I am not sure I agree that this is the best practice and I feel that if you need to use relaxants you should just go ahead and place an ETT.

Airways can be placed but the depth of the anesthesia needs to adequate for the patient to tolerate a nasal or oral airway being placed. Not sure about plans for the facility to tell patient to bring in CPAP because I am not present at the pre-admi...

You are exactly right, I guess you better go quickily then.

With a growing (meaning heavier) patient population which then leads to more patients with OSA. It is always a concern of mine once the patient is in the PACU that they will obstruct their airway or be over nacrcotized. I make sure that I extubate ...

I was entertained as well by the open bottle of sevo being used as an airfreshener. I think the best solution to the bathroom dilema is to always go before the case, stay mildly on the dry side meaning don't drink tons of fluids. Page the anesthesi...

There are quite a few online BSN programs and perhaps there are those that are not looked as very reputable by program directors. I think the best thing to do is to look at the admission criteria for each program you are interested in and see how yo...

I will be honest your GPA is well below a competitive level. You have to consider when most schools set the benchmark at 3.0 I would guess that there would be ample candidates that by far exceed the minimum. Taking a few class and getting A's in th...

I think what you mean is that they have an APRN (Advanced Practice Registered Nurse). Some states require all advance practice nurses to also have the APRN as well even if they are a CRNA, NP or clinical nurse specialist. The APRN does not allow th...

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I think you sort of have a misconception of what being watched is all about or you missed my point of what patient care experience really means. So you are saying the your biology degree or whatever BS degree that you had was far tougher than Nurs...

Good for you, I know that there is an international Nurse anesthesia society that is working credentialing programs so that there grads can work in othere countries. Basically what it comes down to at least for me and a lot of other CRNA's that I ha...

ECU's program is full time, no part time option. I think that UNC-Charlotte has a part-time option. I think that if I were you I would go full-time. If it is money that you are worried about just take out what you need in the form of loans. I jus...

I don't think that if the AA route was even shorter by 10yrs that I would advise anyone to go that route. Like a previous post stated why would want to limit yourself to just a hand of states and hospitals that would allow you to work. Secondly any...

I think that everyone has those days, weeks or months when you say what the hell was I thinking when I decided this was going to be my career path. No matter how many people tell you that it's going to really suck at times you can never appreciate t...

I agree with the above posters that this is a nurse anesthesia site. It sounds like you need to do some more research into what you really want to do. Yes you are in high school still and you are probably five steps ahead of yourself. So once you ...

Listen up to all you applicants that are questioning what to wear to the interview. Look you are are professionals so dress the part. Yeah we get to wear scrubs every other day but that is not appropriate to wear to an interview. I read the post t...

I think that you should be prepared to stand the entire case especially as a student. What if there is only one stool in the room are you going to say to the CRNA that you have flat feet and you need to sit down? If so, let me know how that goes fo...

I used the Princeton Review CD and book, the Kaplan book and the CD from the GRE. I really could not say what works best. If I had to take it again I would have focused more on the math because that is something you can study for.

Simply said, it doesn't compare at all. CRNA school to me is like going through nursing school 4 times over, at least. At the time I thought nursing school was tough but you learn quickily this is a different game all in it's self.

I was in this same position with the GRE. I took the damn thing twice and neither was spectacular but in the end I went with the scores that I had and in the end I was admitted. So what I am saying is take it again and go with it. Don't let the GR...

As you probably already know most schools say minimum 1-2 yrs. so that means you are good with that. My class has a range of 1.5 to 9yrs with probably a mean of over 4yrs of experience. I think that it is really the type of experience that you have...

Up until this year it was 12, it is now 14 people admitted per year. The number that apply is not revealed for specific reasons that if it was thought that it was difficult to get in the number of applicants may decrease. The number of applicants i...

In my opinion if you are really considering attending a CRNA program washout rate should really not be too great of a concern. People are dismissed from programs for various reasons, grades, attitude and some may bow out for personal reasons. Look...

You need to realize that even if you eventually want to work with children primarily your experience will be on adults. I guess it's too bad that CRNA school is not specialized in that way because I think I would let you take care of the kids.

I think will have a very complete application. I am not sure on the schools that you are applying to though. I think some schools put more weight than others on what your numbers say opposed to what you have actually accomplished.