anesthesia_insomniac

I graduated from Kaiser 2 years ago. I can obviously only compare my experience with the opinion of other CRNAs I have talked to about their programs. -The Kaiser faculty is great and very supportive. They want to see their students succeed and have ...

I am a newly certified CRNA and was looking for some advice on obtaining the 40 unit continuing education credits that is required every couple years. I am looking for any advice regarding websites, conferences, subscriptions or anything else that yo...

I graduate from KPSAN in less than a week (Aug 13th). I can summarize the program quickly. Outstanding faculty, support, clinical experiences, fellow classmates and anything else you can imagine. Not to mention the director doesn't get any better. I...

Congrats on everyone who got an interview! I am a "junior" student in the KPSAN program. My interview last year was very basic (them trying to get to know who I am) without any clinical questions. That doesnt mean they won't pry if they find an aspec...

yogi, I am currently in the Kaiser program graduating class of '10. I think your goals are definitely realistic and it sounds like you are setting yourself up nicely. A friend of mine in the program and I had one year of very intense ICU experience a...

Putu2sleep, Have you seen residual muscular paralysis doing this type of protocol? For example, is the patient simply just sedated on a propofol drip and paralyzed when they come up from the OR, then you just reverse them in the first hour, then turn...

You do usually need a year of ICU experience. But in your first I thought you wrote that you would have a year under your belt before you apply. My route was that applied when I was on new grad orientation. Therefore, by the time I got done with the ...

Dirty work is part of the job...however if you work in a high turnover surgical ICU, not only will you get good experience for CRNA school but most patient's may be out of the ICU before their bowels are unfrozen! However, its going to be unavoidable...

Our program uses Medatrax...you can get from Medatrax.com. However, I was about to get a blackberry too but apparently Iphone and blackberry is not compatible with medatrax. So I will be getting a windows mobile PDA phone now. With windows mobile, e...

To answer the posters question...I've known a girl to get into Miami with only NICU experience. Some schools do count it, some don't But Reno, were you at the NSNA anaheim convention a few years ago? If it is, that same talk is when I got even more ...

I did quite a bit of studying prior to my program. If I could do it over I would have utilized the time to relax more because the program teaches you what you need to know. While at work, maybe just utilize your time to make sure you understand your ...

You can private message me and I'll for sure help you out any way I can...I'm interested to see who your friend is

Nicely put Halothane...I agree with everything you just stated. Hopefully due to the competiveness and nature of the profession, the integrity, competency and respect will always be maintained. Slackers should not be able to make it through any of th...

Good luck with the process! I'm currently in the program for class of 2010. You'll love it, it's such a great program!

MerrittSRNA...if you are currently an SRNA or even if you already graduated, I think you would know that SRNA's and ego cannot co-exist. Within that discussion, backgrounds were mentioned as clarification of where we came from, thats it. This site ex...

Once again, I agree that quality ICU experience is important with the regards to success in the clinical setting as an SRNA. My point is that just because a person gets into anesthesia school with minimum time required, what they experienced in that ...

by the way...I find it humerous that you for some reason correlate someone getting into school with "minimum experience" to labeling someone as a "minimum" type of person. I don't think CRNA programs accept nurses who got the minimum grades in their ...

You must be joking Happy Halothane...Once again, now your predicting what experience I got in "just" one year. Fresh heart transplants, Bi-vads, unpredictable aneurysm's etc...fresh CABG's and valves were the "easy" patients and noone went to the PA...

3 yrs experience minimum? Are you kidding me happy halothane? People who think you need tons of ICU experience is actually a pet pieve of mine. If anesthesia schools felt multiple years was needed it would be required as such. Its not like there is a...

Succ is the only depolarizing muscle relaxant available. Here is the quick and dirty of why a potassium level is only pertinent in regards to succ. In skeletal muscle, muscles contract and relax by depolarization and repolarization. At the ion channe...

First since most programs are annual application, then if you want to work for two years you will need to apply after 1 year experience. OB experience to get into CRNA school won't cut it but since you are interested in ICU I would just accept the mo...

I have seen many threads seeking advice for "little things" that can be done to help be accepted into the CRNA program of their choice. All I can put down are some little things that worked for me in the hope that it can help others. Much of this wil...