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  1. difference between Nurse Anesthetist and anesthesiologist

    firecoins replied to lpnstudentin2010's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    i totally

  2. Do PAs go to Med School?

    firecoins replied to Raas4555's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I agree. As already mentioned, don't let the moronic postings of a few mid level morons poison your view of the whole

  3. CRNA vs. anesthesiologist

    firecoins replied to jermaughan0814's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    If you wanted independence, you should have gone to medical

  4. Leaving Level I ER

    firecoins replied to mandasueRN's topic in Emergency

    Don't get turned off by the community hospital. You still may see quite a bit of stuff there. I would go to the community hospital for now. Save up money, wait for gas prices to stablize and get...

  5. Psychiatric NP AND Psychologist?

    firecoins replied to Jo Dirt's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    psych NP is the better route if you have a backround in nursing, which you

  6. Had a new job but now I don't!! WHAT?!?!

    firecoins replied to sammy75's topic in General Nursing

    take the

  7. Intubation & Chest Tube skills

    firecoins replied to naz220's topic in Emergency

    I understand your not willing to go the paramedic route but don't rule it out. In many states, nurses get advaced standing. You may not need to sit for the whole program. NY gives advaced standing....

  8. Do PAs go to Med School?

    firecoins replied to Raas4555's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    PA training is actually quite similiar to medical school. In fact, PA are trained in the medical model. In the 1960's,the training was based on how MDs were rapidly trained in WWII. PA schools are...

  9. CRNA vs. anesthesiologist

    firecoins replied to jermaughan0814's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    So 2 years of RN school and 28 month CRNA training program makes CRNA equivalent to 4 years of med school and 36 month residency program? I guess AAs should also become

  10. What the ER really like in the USA

    firecoins replied to AandE angel's topic in Emergency

    I am a paramedic. ER Nurse shifts are 12 hours standard. 40 hours a week is considered full time. This is made up with an extra shift every 3 weeks. Not all ERs are the same. Some are small...

  11. Can a nursing student use the word "code"?

    firecoins replied to newtress's topic in General Nursing

    as a paramedic, you did the right thing. The patient was having a major problem. Whether you called a code or not is irrelvant. You put the patient's needs first and got help immediatly. You don't...

  12. PA A.S. Degree V.s. RN A.S. Degree

    firecoins replied to Tiff2003's topic in Florida Nursing

    P.A.s can take certificate coruses, A.A. programs, B.A. programs or Master's programs. The trend is that all PA program will all be Master's

  13. Littmann Cardiology III Stethoscope or Classic II S.E?

    firecoins replied to futurern123's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    allheart.com is

  14. excelsior questions

    firecoins replied to BethT's topic in Online Distance Learning

    It is a valid question. The

  15. confused, disappointed....

    firecoins replied to 3rdgenRN2B's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    You will figure out how to do

  16. excelsior questions

    firecoins replied to BethT's topic in Online Distance Learning

    You may want to work as an EMT-B before doing the whole medic program. The medic program is intense as I pointed out in my previous post. You should have some idea if you like it enough to put...

  17. excelsior questions

    firecoins replied to BethT's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Actually, I am in a paramedic program right now and considering taking the excelsior program. I have 160 hours in the ER, 32 hours in the OR, 40 hours in the ICU, 320 hours in an ambulance and I am...

  18. Stand Up Comedy about Nursing

    firecoins replied to hollyvk's topic in General Nursing

    well have a sketch group

  19. Joke..You know you are truly an ER nurse if...

    firecoins replied to HanaRN's topic in Emergency

    I am a medic student. My crew and I decided where to get lunch while working a

  20. Patient Ratios in NYC

    firecoins replied to ERpinup's topic in New York Nursing

    you can handle

  21. Stand Up Comedy about Nursing

    firecoins replied to hollyvk's topic in General Nursing

    As a stand up comic, I suggest writing comedy sketches and post them. When I finish paramedic classes in August I can devote time to fixing them up and getting some of the hundreds of actors in NY to...

  22. Nursing and then Medicine: Wrong profession?

    firecoins replied to Apollorn's topic in Men in Nursing

    I am a paramedic. After seeing with all the nurses have to put up with MD is looking

  23. Stand Up Comedy about Nursing

    firecoins replied to hollyvk's topic in General Nursing

    I am a stand up. I certainly hope I am nothing like Rosanne Barr. Of course...I am a

  24. Good Samaritan Hospital, Suffern NY

    firecoins replied to demsboy007's topic in New York Nursing

    no it isn't. I have not worked at GSH but an EMT-B i have dropped many patients there. Its a level II trauma center nd the ER can be quite

  25. NYU and Double Majors

    firecoins replied to noviciate's topic in New York Nursing

    I graduated NYU in 2000 with an economics major. No idea what the nurding program is like but lots of students not in the Stern School of business icked up a busienss major or minor with no problems....