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  1. Bread angel, Three years out of school I volunteered for three months at a hospital in Georgetown, Guyana. then in the 90's I spent 2 weeks a year for 10 years in a small out of the way hamlet...
  2. Kings County School on Anesthesia for Nurses, Brooklyn New York graduate 1986. If that makes me a "noob" , so be it. In my view that's a lot of gas passing.
  3. Then there is the issue of gas! Sitting on the tip of the suction does a remarkable job eliminating the vapors. Have used it many times and I don't even detect it.
  4. Working in the caribbean

    The Hospital in Georgetown, Guyana is St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital on Parade Street. The only caveat is you don't get paid.
  5. Shadow him to see what the job is like but don't be discouraged by his schedule. I've been doing this for about 25 years and have managed to game the system schedule wise for probably 20 of them....
  6. CRNA vs. Nurse Practitioner

    I feel absolutely no loss of opportunities for interactions with patients. When you talk to a patient in the holding area you 're often dealing with an anxious individual that is just waiting to be...
  7. CRNAs can practice independently etc,etc,etc. The bottom line is my experience over the last 23 years is supervision by an MD everywhere I worked except for Haiti and Guyana. Sometimes it's one on one...
  8. Pacemakers

    I started reading this thread with interest but skimmied it thinking that the info may be dated . I and I bet others would love a review as succint and informative as the first page. Perhaps just an...
  9. IVs

    Why exactly it works I can't say. Not that it's a secret, I just don't know, maybe some kind of histamine release or some such thing. Just hang pt hand /arm in dependent position and pump fist. Give...
  10. IVs

    A little tip I found useful: If after putting up the turniquet you don't see any prominent veins, drop the turniquet for a few seconds and put it back on. I almost always do this when starting i.v.'s...
  11. Nonsense, been doing it for 25 years. Best decision I ever made besides marrying my wife. Better money, more respect less scut and way less running around. Best job in hospital if not an M.D....
  12. My advise would be to make some appts. for interviews over a few days and fly in. A nice reasonable hotel called Hotel 17 on seventeenth btw 2nd and 3rd ave would only run you $150 a night and is...
  13. Two or three years after I got out of school I went to an old Catholic hospital in Georgetown Guyana for three months, I could have used a little more experience first. Teaching three students the...
  14. Being the sweet and loving man that I am; I forgive you Empire.
  15. Thanks RedCell. I guess two Reds make a White.