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Bangwa is talking about Anesthesiologist Assistants, also known as Physician Assistant type B....They are master degree anesthetists also and there programs do not require ICU experience....

:yeahthat: Exactly what I was saying!!!!

I can only say what I have heard from CRNA's that are my friends as WELL as the ones that I have worked with......But I have been told that the ICU experience is basically to learn how to critically think. What is learned in the ICU cannot be translated into what is learned in CRNA school ( to a certain extent)...they are two different animals ( per se). Most nurses have to be retrained out of ICU thinking to Nurse Anesthetist thinking. So the minimum one year experience is satisfactory. Plus (please dont beat me :nuke:) AA's don't have any ICU experience and I know quite a few that are great......so to each their own!! And speaking from someone who has 7.5 years experience in the OR as a surgical assistant...what we do in the OR is night and day to what happens on the floors....You either know your stuff ,OR style, or you don't...... and if you don't, find the nearest exit because you are not cut out for this line of work......my:twocents:

See........Now this is a darn shame!!!!:angryfire What in the world is going on in medicine today? This is scary!!! I heard that an ophthomologist in our area is going to start doing some non-invasive procedure on varicose veins....something that they went to a weekend course to learn. What does an ophthomologist know about veins in the leg (invasive or not)?

I just felt the need to re=post what was already posted by me because ya'll seem to be going around and around what was already mentioned;)

Girl...You need to chill!!! Your time for schooling is coming quicker than you think and you need to relax and enjoy the little bit of time that you have left with your friends and family......You know that you won't have 5 months of time to be free too much longer.....If you can, go on a nice vaction with your girls or family :onbch:*wineThey won't be seeing too much of you in 5 months.

I just thought that I should give my on the issue. Now I understand where CRNA's feel like they should have a say in pain management, because I believe there is a place in pain management that they could be part of...especially when you are giving pain meds during procedures. That makes total sense!!! I gotcha on that.....What I DON'T understand is where CRNA's feel that they should bring a patient to radiology or the OR/.. make a lumbar cuts into a patients back, placing spinal leads for pain stimulators using C-arm, placing Baclacin Pumps (sp?) into patients etc. etc.....ya'll get my drift all after a weekend course. These are the things that separate pain physicians from anesthetist....the physicians do an extra 2-3 years to learn this stuff. Now I understand what nurseKaren is trying to say, that things are evolving...but they are evolving with the proper education to back it up! Now maybe in the future, it will change but for now, at least the part of pain management that I am refering to should remain in the physicians court. (Now I should also note that I am referring to what pain management does in my state and what they do in the OR that I work in....)

Hey Kirbybunny,........Dont give up...you will get in!!!...maybe not when you wanted to get in but when HE wants you to get in!!

:balloons:Congrats!!! Californianurse!!! I could tell from your posts that you really wanted TCU!!!:balloons:And now you are in!!!! I am sure it feels great!!

Congratulations SirJazz!!!........I was hoping that everything would turn out well for you..... Especially after reading some of your post on how worked up you were about your interview.....:chrs:

Congrats!!!!! I know you are sitting on high right now!!:balloons::pumpiron:

Thats great!!! Love it!!

I am never silent when I have worked hard, busted my butt, didn't eat, took a thousand tests and got A's in hard classes all to just APPLY to a program...getting in was the epitomy of all that I have done....I shouted off the highest mountain.... but thats just me... I can't keep a secret!

LOL!!!!...... I am going to add the surgeons in that statement too Ebear!!:sasq:(Don't you just want to do that to some docs....or anybody for that matter)

If you really need a refresher for the quantitative section, I think Barrons GRE prep is the best......The best all around......Chck it out!! I really needed a math refresher and that book hooked me up... I also used Kaplan, but to me, Barrons was better.. more questions to work on and it breaks down the steps to each problem better.....Plus the word list in Barrons is greater... I think they have a 3,500 word vocab list if you want to review versus 300 words in Kaplan.....I guess you are going to have to find what works for you... but Barrons was the best for me..... Definitely use the ETS Powerprep CD, It will help you get used to the types of questions that will be on the GRE.....