Thinking of a big house is nice, but a real motivator for some of us is the picture attached to failure: family in rags, 100K in debt, dealing with melana in ICU again, no college for the kids,
Salus 69 Summing the CRNA proffession up by saying "CRNA's just give people some gas and they wake up later." is like saying why do airline pilots require extensive training...they just take the plane...
poja 18 I'm currently a Newman student. Our program director is leaving to become the new director of the SC program. He is very student oriented and easy to visit with. I would suggest calling him...
Smiling_RU Thanks for sharing on this topic. I'm in my third month of clinical and have been impressed by the smoothness of a high narcotic technique. I have two questions 1. Why Iso over Des or Sevo...
Hi jebain, First; Congratualations on being accepted into school!!!! I'm a SRNA at Newman. Understand it is one of your choices. I have been very pleased with the program and would pick it again. To...
Yoga, I'm in my first semester of SRNA clinicals and have read the posts on OGP, finding an strong underlying "Back in the Day" theme to it all. The idea that you take the cream of ICU RNs, put them...
One book your husband may want to check into is "Anesthesia Secrets" by James Duke. I bought my copy from amazon.com. One of the senior students in my program said that quite a few of the pimping...
rmcgrog, I agree that asking the individual program directors is the best approach. I got in with 1 yr MICU, 3.5 years ER, and .5 PACU; good luck athomas, "we never know what is going to hit, yet we...
It's my favorite text; not as wordy or in depth as Barash, but concise and easy to read. Have several classmates that also have and like this one. I plan to carry it and Mass General to clinicals....
cnmtocrna, I believe it may be my post on "should I be a CRNA or MDA thread" that you're referencing. My class at Newman had an average of around 5 five years of nursing experience. The extremes were...
From the programs I visited with, ICU experience is not negotiable: and bigger and busier is better. I also had ER and PACU experience and I feel that are both a nice addition to the ICU work that...
akijitsu Welcome to the board. Both professions you are considering provide excellent anesthesia care to patients My answer to your questions. "1. salaries for MDAs seem to be twice that of crna...
I would definitely contact them and ask about support. I found my sponsor by taking a travel assignment, (PACU), to a place that had a vacancy. Doing this let me get a feel for the place and decide...
I think the least restrictive states would be the ten states that have "opted out" of the federal supervision law. In these states scope of practice is defined by the individual hospital. As far as...
My 2 cents The issue of Anesthesia Assistants in general and specifically how AA programs may endanger clinical sites for CRNA education The ASA and AANA conflict.....seems while we're busy fighting...