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  1. After all "that", I advised my wife to turn down MICU/ACC position today.

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in MICU, SICU

    I will resist the temptation to say that I believe that all decisions that women make should have to be approved by males before implementation (just kidding!). Seriously, we make most of our bigger...

  2. Accepting or not accepting the client which jeopardizes the license the most?

    Roland posted a topic in General Nursing

    I had a discussion with my wife this morning concerning a situation she faced last night. She is a relatively new nurse with six months RN experience on a med/surg trauma floor at a large urban...

  3. An ICU nurse manager told my wife that her Med/surg experience was hurting her!?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in MICU, SICU

    Unfortunately, it is my impression that to the entent any ICU positions are available in our area for newer grads, that they are of the nighttime

  4. What determines how often a CRNA school must be certified by the AANA?

    Roland posted a topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I've noticed that some schools must be recertified much more often than other programs. Does this indicate anything about the school

  5. An ICU nurse manager told my wife that her Med/surg experience was hurting her!?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in MICU, SICU

    In all fairness to this person she didn't say that she would prefer to hire a new grad (in fact just the opposite was implied given that all of this new hospital's nursing positions required two years...

  6. What are the key ICU issues for a new grad?

    Roland posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    She finally has some interviews (three) over the next several week. One is in the ACC and this is not her first choice since they handle two patients and have really bad trauma cases the manager said...

  7. Lots of new hospitals opening, but two years experience required?

    Roland posted a topic in General Nursing

    In the central Indiana/Indianapolis area we have what I consider to be a perplexing trend. We have had Clarion open at least two new hospitals one on the North side and the other in Avon. In...

  8. Question re: testing policies

    Roland replied to Altra's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Have you considered that one reason that students may wish to disagree with a test answer is because they have a valid point. Personally, I think that if you are going to hold students to a very high...

  9. Successful CRNA students consider listing your school, GPA, experience, GRE et.

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

    Here's what we have so far: a. Average GPA is 3.34 b. Average GRE is 1158 (throwing out all of the data points which involved the old style test). c. Average years of critical care experience is...

  10. Successful CRNA students consider listing your school, GPA, experience, GRE et.

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

    Well there's still hope. Consider, that in addition to the nice people who have posted on this thread we have years of old threads where various people at various times have identified their schools,...

  11. Successful CRNA students consider listing your school, GPA, experience, GRE et.

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

    I like the idea about the CCEMT class however I'm not sure how widely available this course can be found. Also, the letters of reference idea is also good. I find it absolutely frightening that we...

  12. Accepting or not accepting the client which jeopardizes the license the most?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    As I stated it turned out that the arrhythmia was a problem with the non capturing pacemaker (or at least the way the patient was lying in bed). The client was an 80 something year old, but I don't...

  13. Successful CRNA students consider listing your school, GPA, experience, GRE et.

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

    I agree that it won't be truly representative and will tend to overstate the requirements for a given school, but that doesn't mean that it wouldn't be useful as a general guideline. We have already...

  14. Accepting or not accepting the client which jeopardizes the license the most?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    No this wasn't ICU where the acuity level would have been even higher. In any case the consensus seems to be that you cannot easily lose your license for refusing to take extra clients out of a...

  15. Accepting or not accepting the client which jeopardizes the license the most?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    She did ask for and did receive some help from two of her fellow nurses (and former ASN classmates). The problem is that those nurses also had four patients and are struggleing clinically even more...

  16. Successful CRNA students consider listing your school, GPA, experience, GRE et.

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

    The difference is that I would like this thread to eventually become a database. Once/if we get enough responses to be helpful (maybe a hundred or more) I would like to put it into a searchable...

  17. What one message about CRNA's do you wish the public "got".

    Roland posted a topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    In other words if you had the ability to purchase big time national advertising what would your message be? Would it be outstanding safety at less cost (meaning that CRNA's save the health care...

  18. Is it even possible anymore to start a home nursing business?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in Home Health

    So do the seven plus patient clients that you need to apply for Medicare PPS approval need to be Medicare/Medicaid patients? Again, if they can be private pay (either their own funds or private...

  19. Is it even possible anymore to start a home nursing business?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in Home Health

    That's fine so long as "the rules" don't estasblish a system that preclude anyone, but millionaires from starting a business. Of course we all know from experiences like Enron, and WorldCom that it is...

  20. Should a rejected SRNA applicant reapply at same schools or different ones?

    Roland posted a topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I am speaking from a "game theory" perspective. For the sake of discussion let's say the applicant applied at four schools and received two interviews, but was ultimately rejected. Do you think that...

  21. Is it even possible anymore to start a home nursing business?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in Home Health

    It has been my experience that the stated objective of deterring "fly by night companies" is often used as a cover for the true intent of "limiting competition so that major players do not have to...

  22. Should my wife languish in Med/Surg or go to small town ICU?

    Roland posted a topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    My wife has worked in a large midwestern city at *** on a Medical Surgical, trauma care floor for seven months. She has tried to find an ICU/NICU/SICU position at all of the major city hospitals...

  23. Should my wife languish in Med/Surg or go to small town ICU?

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

    She is going to make one last stab this week at finding something ICU related at ***. She said that there were positions open in PACU, but I think that even small town ICU walks all over PACU in the...

  24. Should my wife languish in Med/Surg or go to small town ICU?

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

    Here's why I advised that she change: 1. The contract is for 24 months so she would have another 17 months. Although she was told she could transfer when hired she has since talked to other nurses...

  25. Indianapolis hospitals that pay for grad school?

    Roland replied to RN05's topic in Indiana Nursing

    Having previously owned a mortgage company that marketed to the whole state (meaning that I drove to people's houses all over the state) I can tell you that there are economically depressed areas....