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  1. Okay, lets say someone DOESN"T get accepted into CRNA school the first time around...

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Taking the courses as a non-matriculated student is a great idea. Gas P. I think that your analysis is also right on. However, I would explain (to the admissions board) that my primary motivation...

  2. ASN -> CRNA? NP? MD?

    Roland replied to babymeena's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Let's look at time commitment which is about all that I'm qualified to evaluate: With CRNA you are looking at about two years from the time you are an RN to gain the requisite experience and BSN to...

  3. Okay, lets say someone DOESN"T get accepted into CRNA school the first time around...

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    deepz, I was using a bit of humor as a rhetorical tool. This was indicated by the fact that I mentioned that THEY would then call security. I was trying to illustrate what I believe to be the...

  4. Why, would any RN oppose requiring a BSN for all future nurses?

    Roland posted a topic in General Nursing

    Okay, I could see certain philisophical objections, such as if you are a libertarian, or strict conservative that opposes most governmental regulations (after all standards for education are a form of...

  5. Big Reject

    Roland replied to MollyS's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    That's why in my other thread that this is an importent question from a "game theory" perspective. That is to say would Molly S. stand a better chance of reapplying to the same schools that rejected...

  6. Okay, lets say someone DOESN"T get accepted into CRNA school the first time around...

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    One of the reasons that I "dug up" the Major Evans post is that I intend to use it as a basis to find out exactly the type of information that you are referencing. Hopefully, the schools on his list...

  7. Why, would any RN oppose requiring a BSN for all future nurses?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    All that you say is true, but that doesn't mean that the economics of nursing should be dismissed either. My point is that virtually every trade, profession, or business has professionals dedicated...

  8. As a conservative with libertarian leanings I USED to think that a single payer...

    Roland posted a topic in General Nursing

    system would be bad for nurses. However, after exchanging information with nurses from Canada and Australia, I am no longer so sure that this would be the case. Consider for instance, that under...

  9. If Bill Gates gave you a grant for several billion dollars and said design a hospital

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    I would also set up high quality, twenty four hour child care (at low prices or even free under certain circumstances such as when you were called in on an emergency basis). Many Dr's and Nurses...

  10. As a conservative with libertarian leanings I USED to think that a single payer...

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    Also, you indicated that you don't use NP's as much. Does that mean as much, or not at all? I have always told my wife that if I couldn't live in Hawaii, I would want to live in Alaska or the Yukon...

  11. Socialized medicine, and the future of CRNAs

    Roland replied to user69's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    for Kerry if he REALLY believes that. I feel like such a whXXX, but that would be really good for this

  12. the future of CRNA's

    Roland replied to statnurse's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Yoga, what is your opinion concerning the regulatory "turf wars" between MDA's and CRNA's? Do you see these as subsiding or that a stable "stale mate" might persist for decades? Personally, I think...

  13. How do you pay for school?

    Roland replied to richard13's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    By the way you mentioned that you have a mortgage. One option might be to do a refinance, consolidate your bills, AND to take cash out of any equity that you have in the house. You might then RENT...

  14. Socialized medicine, and the future of CRNAs

    Roland replied to user69's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I thought Canada (or maybe I am remembering incorrectly and it is the U.K.) had a law on the books that made it a crime for any physician to accept payment outside of the national healthcare system....

  15. Okay, lets say someone DOESN"T get accepted into CRNA school the first time around...

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    best you can for all contingencies. I consider this to be long term "intelligence gathering" for a battle several years in the future which will play a large role in shaping our future destiny. My...

  16. As a conservative with libertarian leanings I USED to think that a single payer...

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    since, at 15K in income (and that mostly from school and governmental grants), our contribution within a Canadian style system would be quite low or nonexistant. In fact we have been advised that we...

  17. If Bill Gates gave you a grant for several billion dollars and said design a hospital

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    If nurses had one hour lunches then they should also have "napping rooms", where you could lie down for a half hour, in a comfortable, dark, quite place. In the Navy the ship became like a MORGUE...

  18. I spoke to an MD the other day who told me that Hepatitus C was the SINGLE biggest...

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    Does that mean if you are positive that they don't hire you or that they want you to get down to a low viral load? It would be bad enough to contract this disease in the course of my job, but even...

  19. As a conservative with libertarian leanings I USED to think that a single payer...

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    We basically have a system where "anyone" can get medical care now. Unfortunately, it's just not in a very organized way. Consider that I developed a severe L-3/S-1 herniation in October, with...

  20. As a conservative with libertarian leanings I USED to think that a single payer...

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe the unions in Canada could consider seperate "regional" negociations with pay tied to some sort of more local cost of living index. The advantage of unions is that everyone gets paid the same...

  21. Future Kaiser Students?

    Roland replied to susswood's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    is the PLACE to go! They have several HMO's on Oahu, and last time I checked they had openings for CRNA's. A graduate of Kaiser would be so IN for those positions. Unfortunately, I might as well...

  22. As a conservative with libertarian leanings I USED to think that a single payer...

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    Are there any obvious downsides for those in medical professions? Some NP's and CRNA's are concerned that they might take pay cuts. However, it sounds like Canada's issues with NP's and CRNA's are...

  23. Okay, lets say someone DOESN"T get accepted into CRNA school the first time around...

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    What I'm really looking for are some of those "secret nuggets" that exist in almost every field, but which you usually don't learn about until it's too late. Consider, several years ago I considered...

  24. How do your guys calculate GRE score?

    Roland replied to rhp123's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    except to say that academics have debated the issue on both sides for the last century (especially the last half century). Some of these studies have shown there to be a high correlation between...

  25. How do your guys calculate GRE score?

    Roland replied to rhp123's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    exceptional GRE scores that it would make sense to only apply to schools that required a GRE? My wife's combined verbal and math was 1380 several years ago, but her current GPA is only 3.45 (we ARE...