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How about a list of wierd excuses for not coming to work? My favorite: I can't come in today, I'm having vision problems. I just don't see myself working. Kevin

WITHOUT STARTING A FLAME WAR, OR A HOLY CRUSADE!! The thread in OB/GYN nursing got me wondering. Does a nurse have a right to refuse to participate in certain procedures, if s/he feels those procedures violate their ethical code? Or, is a nurse ...

One day, a baby polar bear asks his mother "Mommy, am I really a polar bear?" "Of course your are dear" replies mommy. So, the baby goes off to play. A few days later, the baby polar bear approaches his father, and says "Daddy, are you and mommy re...

It seems like about once every six or eight months, someone goes over to the Student Doctor Network and finds some particularly inflammatory remarks about nurse anesthetists. Then, we get a thread here with a title like "Look at What Those Nasty Guy...

Jasmine This is one of those topics that will strike a chord with many people. There are those out there who doubt ADD, and will even flat out say people are just drugging kids without regard to the "real problem." Having a son (now 25) who was dia...

Statements like these make me approach this thread with some trepidation. No, Fergus, I don't believe you would ever generalize about men, or any other group for that matter. However, the fact that you wouldn't do it, and have not seen it, does not...

Archie: SRNA - Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist DrugreptoCRNA - ApaisRN is correct. Generally, the school you attend as an undergrad won't have much impact on which school you get into for CRNA. Undergraduate grades, score on the GRE, ICU expe...

Wow. Feel like I have to post so that not all us nurses in anesthesia get painted with the same brush. No question, being a full time employee, student, and mom is exceedingly tough, but it can be done. There is a requirement for commitment on your...

Chadday Same advice I have given before. Step back, take a deep breath, and relax. Feel better? Don't sweat one grade of 88, it isn't the end of the world. You can be highly competitive for a slot for a CRNA school without a 4.0 GPA. In fact, do ...

Your arguments about the scope of the AA's practice would be more compelling if the scope of practice of AA's was controlled by CRNA's. In fact, it is not. It is controlled by the same group who conceived the very idea of AA's, specifically, anesth...

Betty Sorry to hear about your son. Hope all goes well. My wife was a nurse for several years in the burn center at St Francis, they have a great staff there. Tell them hi from the McHugh's. The burn docs there are great as well, pretty much no m...

jwk You know, perhaps this attitude has something to do with why AA's face such an uphill battle with the CRNA community. There is much all of us in the anesthesia community can do to better work together. However, your reduction of the history of ...

Bandit I am an Army veteran (not a CRNA while in the military), and I can tell you one thing for certain. When you are told about a "90 day deployment rule," think "guideline." Where ever possible, the military may try to follow that guideline, but...

Dinkymouse STICK BY YOUR GUNS! You are absolutely correct in your assessment of this lady's pain. Even if the other nurses are correct that this lady might become addicted, SO WHAT?? She has cancer with widespread mets, and her potential for recov...

Not always correct. Some schools, such as my alma mater (Newman University, Wichita, Kansas - Shameless plug) will accept RN's who have non-nursing bachelor's degrees. However, there are other schools that will only consider candidates with BSN's. ...

This comment caught my attention, so I went and looked at the website. I don't know who wrote it, but they got quite a bit wrong. Kevin McHugh, CRNA

While I don't know the specifics of cost of malpractice insurance in Florida, don't let that alone slow you down. The fact is that most places you work will pay your malpractice premiums. About the only people I know paying their own premiums are t...

And just to back up Hoop Jumper: "WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, June 25) -- The line-item veto is unconstitutional, the Supreme Court decided Thursday, ruling that Congress did not have the authority to hand that power to the president. The 6-3 ruling sai...

Deb Excellent points, all. In fact, I agree with everything you put in this post. However, what has yet to be demonstrated anywhere is one vet who is going without treatment to which they are rightfully eligible. KM

Which glove is it that fits, Eric? Overdramatizing my experiences, or sniping at people who did that which others were afraid to do? Kevin McHugh

"There is no problem so large that it cannot be overcome by a suitable application of high explosive." US Army, unknown "As long as you are talking, you aren't learning anything." J.P. McHugh, my father. KM

No, that's not fact. You are in fact repeating a lie. In fact, if you go way back to the beginning of this thread, you will find an article referenced by Begalli that demonstrates that veteran's funding is increasing. While it's not much of an inc...

Not aware of any new drugs in development, but then the pharm companies don't often take me into their confidence. A few things I would like to see: Monitoring integrated into OR tables. Rather than the current morass of cables running from above t...

This poll by it's very nature would be misleading and incorrect. Go back to the beginning of the thread. THERE ARE NO CUTS BEING MADE IN VA FUNDING. Asking whether someone was in favor of the cuts would be like asking whether or not we were in fav...

Perhaps you didn't read my earlier posts on this thread. I'm curious, what was promised to me that has not been delivered? After all, I'm a 14 year veteran of the Army, medically discharged, and now considered a disabled vet. What am I missing? Ke...