rodvigcrna

I am saddened to inform that I no longer passionate. I graduated from anesthesia school recently and decided to take a position at a level one trauma center with a high acuity neonatal intensive care unit thinking that I would get great experience and grow as a CRNA. I was happy to make the money a new graduate CRNA makes out of school. I like the extra income, but I was more interested in learning. Instead I have been hitting a wall that is making me bitter and frustrated. I find the CRNA's rarely ever do central lines, arterial lines, or regional anesthesia ath the facility I am working at. I don't even touch the difficult airway cart. We are not aloud to handle the fiberoptic scopes. To make matters worse, there is alot of micromanagement at the facility. I might as well be a monkey watching the monitor for the anesthesiologists. :monkeydance::monkeydance: To add insult to injury. New graduate CRNA's are assigned to mostly bread and butter stuff. ALOT of endo !!!! Hard work for half the money I can make at a surgery center. Meanwhile, my husband carries me on his healthcare insurance plan from work. I have no need for the insurance being provided to me at work, and I am not compensated for declining to take it. Instead of letting the situation ruin my mental well being, I have decided that I will concentrate on making my career as lucrative for me as I possibly can. I am considering giving up my full time position and working at a surgery center or a comunity hospital as a 1099 contracted person. My question is. How do I do this? What are the benefits? Are there any benefits? Your help will be greatly appreciated. RODVIGCRNA

I say CRNA's and AA's UNITE !!!! Here is my view: First of all, I want to make a point. I feel CRNA's and AA's all went into their perspective careers for the same reasons. More opportunity and a better life for them and their families. I'm sure no one chooses to enter anesthesia so they can fight with another group of people. For that matter, anesthesiologists do not enter anesthesia residency thinking of how fun it is going to be to crush CRNA's. I am not going to attempt to predict the future. However I want to point something out. In the sate I live in, Doctors prefer to hire physician assistants rather than nurse practitioners. This has resulted in substantially higher salaries for PA's than NP's. However, a new trend is emerging. Some surgeons are trading their higher paid PA's for RN first assistants. Paying them less money than PA's but more money than RN's. So prominent is the trend that RN's are entering this field in droves. Similarly, the anesthesiologists are protecting their best interest. No one can blame them for doing this. It is not wrong. It is just the capitalist way. They want to make sure they retain control, so they always maintain their field as lucrative. So here is my point. If AA's feel safe because they are protected by the umbrella of the ASA, they are terribly mistaken. And, if CRNA's feel that AA's are a threat to us, we are terribly mistaken. Stop and think before everyone starts bashing each other. :roll