Montague

I couldn't agree more. Die thread die!!!!!!!!!!!!

VA medic I'm an RN EMTP currently working as a flight nurse for a hospital based program with heicopter service. Pre hospital service quality is all based on time. How fast can you get the patient to a higher level of care. We (you and I) follow protocols and practice under medical direction. Pulling people out of cars and ditches and following a one page protocol is NOT science my friend. You and I are simply technicinans and there is absolutly nothing god-like about it. I'm not saying managing ABC's and following the technical sequence is easy because its not. Also the CCEMTP certification is not the same as the CCRN certification. I know I have them both. My suggestion to you is to get your RN and get into the ICU because that is the expirence your going to need to get into nurse anesthesia school. Montague

Hello Ive been checking this site out for a month or so. I've gotten some good insight from alot of you folks. I've been a RN for 13 years. Nine years in a sicu and the last four years I've been a flight nurse for a hospital based program. Part of our on going training includes airway managemnt with anesthesia. We are required to do at least two intubations a month in the OR with anesthesia. Sufice to say over the last four years I've learned a great deal about what there job is like. Sometimes I stay the whole case. Anyway my undergraduate grades are horrible. My BS is in health science and I have an ADN. I would like to apply to CRNA school someday so I decided to take some of the sciences over again. I've taken a year of chemistry and A&P. One semester of physics. Pathophysiology and pharmocolgy with the college of nursing. I have recieved all A marks in every course. My GPA now barely meets the minimum requirement. Do you think I have a chance of getting an getting an interview? I haven't taken the gre yet. I might apply to schools who don't reqire it, but if I have to take it I will. Anybody have any suggestions? Oh buy the way I read those posts on the studentdoctor forum about nurses are stupid. The other day I responded to a MVA rollover with major damage. Unrestrained driver ejected. Coma score on scene was 7, bilateral flailed segments. We were 30 minutes out. We intubated with rsi technique and did chest tube insertion. Corrected her hypoxemia and shock state. She was in the OR is less than an hour. She walked out of the hospital 3 weeks later. God I'm stupid.