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  1. Med/surg

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

    IMO if you want to work ICU then tell the recruiter that is what you're interested in or look eslewhere. There are enough positions in nursing today that you can work where ever you wish. I had no...

  2. First Day in OR

    jewelcutt posted a topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Thought I'd post this for a fun response. What was your first day/days in the OR like as an RNAI. The only way we get through these instances is to laugh, otherwise we'd burst from embarrassment....

  3. SRNA's: generally, how much...

    jewelcutt replied to blee1's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    It's hard to know what to study let alone how much in the beginning. So I took the advice of others, I started out studying three hours every day and eight hours every weekend day. Pretty soon I...

  4. First Day in OR

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

    Yeah, RNAI is RN Anesthesia intern, actually I'm kind of fond of it. "You are not student registered nurse anesthetists" (One of our coordinators told us this). HA! I can see a lot of people making...

  5. Interview Blues

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

    The best part about your experience is that you have had practice. My first interview was not with my first choice and I felt very nervous, so much so that I think I didn't do as well as I could...

  6. programs to stay away from?

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

    Sorry about venting you guys. There's just a lot of volume to study in anesthesia and some things just frustrate you more than others when they take up a lot of your

  7. programs to stay away from?

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

    I don't consider physics, patho, pharm non-anesthesia courses because they are applied directly to anesthesia in my opinion. I do, however, consider Theoretical foundations in nsg theory, professional...

  8. How does this SRNA clinical experience look?

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

    Sounds like a great program to me, a lot of experiences available and many opportunities for different cases. Are all programs in that area 36 months? It seems that programs in a general vicinity...

  9. programs to stay away from?

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

    I didn't take zenman's response initially as an attack on nursing even though I'm sure it was. The good point brought up is don't go to schools that offer an MSN rather than MS because you will have...

  10. Incentive pay to work in the ER

    jewelcutt replied to Jetman's topic in Emergency

    I was an ICU nurse and didn't get incentive pay for CCRN, PALS, ACLS, IABP, or ABIOMED. But I heard now that our hospital will pay for the CCRN exam and give a $100 incentive if you pass (whoo-hoo)....

  11. chest tube removal

    jewelcutt replied to corkyrn's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    In our CVSICU RN's pulled chest tubes daily. We have such a busy heart center that it was necessary, it's in the policy and we were checked off on it. Sometimes we would pull all of them, or just...

  12. I need help about which way to go!

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

    If there were a BSN program in your area, and cheap, I would say to do that. But in your situation I would do the ADN. You already have all the required pre-reqs like I did with my chem and math...

  13. First Day in OR

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

    I swear it would be so much more helpful if they just brought us into an empty OR and had us learn to put arm boards, monitors, etc without the hustle bustle first. I still can't get those darn arm...

  14. question about LMA contraindications

    jewelcutt replied to athomas91's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I have actually read the aana article. I believe they studied research comparing use of LMA's in patients who would normally have absolute contraindications. I think there were average pressures...

  15. Future Requirements for CRNA schools?

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

    It's really funny that this post was brought up. Just this past week our dean of nursing stopped by the hospital to get our opinions on offering a PhD sort of degree for six months more of classes...

  16. Questions for CRNA's working in rural areas

    jewelcutt replied to cabbage patch rn's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I never really frequented coffee shops much until I started school, now I'm so pathetic I have a coffee card. I get about 6-7 hours of sleep a night and try not to make it less than that. I prepared...

  17. First test jitters

    jewelcutt posted a topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I have my first anesthesia exam tomorrow, feeling fatigued, also feeling the more I study the dumber I get, HA! It's amazing that all of the terminology and reasons I knew in the ICU seem to have...

  18. Good Luck Class Of 2006!!!!!!

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

    On my 2nd to last day my patient was on like 15 gtts and ended up dying, after placing bilateral chest tubes for pneumo prophylaxis d/t peep 36(absolutely ridiculous!), coding 5 times, emergency...

  19. opposite Vasoactive meds??

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

    If the patient was on an IABP and primacor and still had a CI of 1.6 I would definitely keep the epi on, sometimes we would keep it on at 2-3 mcg's for patients this sick. Of course we would always...

  20. plavix use and CABG

    jewelcutt replied to heart queen's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    As I'm sure you know, plavix causes a thrombocytopathia, which is a dysfunction in platelets. As one of our cv surgeons explained to me once, when you have a patient on plavix preop you have to be...

  21. Personality traits suited for ER??

    jewelcutt replied to LilRedRN1973's topic in Emergency

    I have worked in both ER and SICU and both are complicated but very rewarding jobs. There are slow times, stressful times, codes, etc in both. I personally think that you either like one or the...

  22. First test jitters

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

    It's funny because I've already had an anatomy exam and three papers for theory(which is taking up way too much of my time) andn I wasn't even bothered with those tests. I was just nervous with the...

  23. Extra Curriculars

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

    Our anesthesia director almost expects you to be a member of the nursing honor society. You want to be a rep for the leadership experience. Do everything you can to pad your resume, everything! A...

  24. Just Curious

    jewelcutt replied to RNBEAUTY2003's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I had one bad grade on my entire transcript, my second organic chem for personal reasons. I think if you have only that one blemish and the rest of your transcript is fine, then that bad grade is not...

  25. Open Heart unit

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

    I also worked in a CVSICU and believe I got the greatest experience in hemodynamics, swans, gtts, recovery of unstable surgery patients. It also helped that we were such a large unit the we take...