tifffear

With all due respect on the "18" respirations. I use 30 seconds as my marker and multiply by 2. If I got 9 breaths, then 18 respirations.

I love working with all foreign nurses. My only hang-up if being left out of the converstion when foreign nurses group together and speak their native language. I find it rude, it is comparable to whispering in my opinion.

OMG inthesky, I had identical problems. Started out with extreme GERD, EGD found small hiatal hernia, N/V, Prevacid 30mg BID. HIDA scan was normal. 6 months later 25lb wt loss, HR 150's, extreme fatigue, muscle and joint pain then diarrhea. Found Grave's disease. Never able to gain control over HR with Inderal had surgery instead of iodine ablation. After surgery, I feel better than I did three years ago. Now having my labs monitored due to low Calcium and high Phosphurus levels. Been a night nurse for years. I just don't snack during the night shift, drink lots of water now. Weight is my dream weight and I am maintaining well. However, I am switching my specialty in hopes to reduce stress.

I have been considering the same notion. However, the numbers they gave me were horrible. I'm doing those same numbers in Phoenix. I was offered $2500 stipend in Fremont and $30 per hour. I think Seattle is my best bet. I have 3 kids to feed. :wink2:

I love this response. I am not a CRNA, just a hopeful. I was reading an anesthesiology forum and found it interesting to read what MD's are saying about CRNA's (basically it is similar to what CRNA's say about AA's). I decided that the anesthesiologist route was not for me because of the cost and the length of time I had to be in school. I was just curious to who often one would hear CRNA's compare themselves to an MD. It just seems like, well, stupid. I agree with your statement to the fullest. All I want to do is become a CRNA I know my boundaries.

I too used to be 3 hours away from Chicago with that 2 hour call off window. I would be one hour into the trip and the facilities almost always would call me off. Get this, if they call you off to late, they are supposed to pay you for the full shift. I quickly learned that they would call me off for the first four hours, then actually call me off 2 hours before the last eight hours of the shift started, therefore not having to pay me for the full shift, only having to pay for the first four hours, and might I add that I had already arrived in Chicago when I could have stayed home.

If it were for the money, I would rather place my time into med school and become a flat out Anesthesiologists. Because after all of the time that I will have put into nurse anesthesia will have almost been the same amount of time. I am currently an RN seeking to become a CRNA, but I have looked at the alternatives of going to AA school and med school. I did do extensive research and I have seen long threads on Anesthesiology forums about them having the same arguments with CRNA's, that the CRNA's are having with AA's. All I am trying to get at is this. What the heck is the problem, it is what we choose to do in the end. I could care less about what who makes what and who is better. There is a whole lot of bashing going on.