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  1. high school senior in need of advice

    My_brain_hurts replied to beemarie's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not sure I follow the AA then transfer to nursing thing, but it may just be the way it's done where you live. I know where I am you can just major in nursing at a community college and you will...

  2. ICU Q's

    My_brain_hurts replied to JeeperN's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Wow! MS in phys. COOOL! That has got to look good in an interview. I have a previous 'pre-med'-like BS, which I think maybe helped in the interview? my grades weren't spectacular from that (3.2, a...

  3. Do I have what it takes?

    My_brain_hurts replied to slaughts3's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I say go ahead and apply. Worst case is you have all your things together, but don't get in. Then you can call school and say "I wasn't selected for an interview. What do I need to do to be an...

  4. ICU Q's

    My_brain_hurts replied to JeeperN's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Yeah, if you want to go to CRNA school, you need the ICU. Somes schools will take ER experience (you have to look for which ones do), but most don't. And even the ones that do I'm not sure it's...

  5. UTHSC Houston interview advice?

    My_brain_hurts replied to My_brain_hurts's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I might have met you. My interview was at 9:30. I came back to the room and had some fruit and I think there was a guy from Utah there talking with the students? I was the girl with the suit on HA!...

  6. UTHSC Houston interview advice?

    My_brain_hurts replied to My_brain_hurts's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I ended up not getting accepted to UT houston, but I DID get accepted at BAYLOR!!!! who would have thought? I assumed I'd have had a better change at UT. Oh well Baylor was really my first choice,...

  7. Job dynamic...

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

    Not a CRNA yet, but one of the things that drew me to want to pursue that profession was the teamwork I saw in the OR. I felt like it was a HUGE team effort. It's one big controlled mess --person...

  8. Need your input on this

    My_brain_hurts replied to AllAngelsRN's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I can definitely see why you would not want rotating shift --day to night and back again. YIKES! I work nights and that kind of messes me up, but if I had to switch back and forth, I'm not sure how...

  9. Anyone in at Baylor?

    My_brain_hurts replied to OneTraumaRN's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    See? we're already getting to know each other. Before exams when we're all freaking out, I will be freaking out WAY MORE than everybody else (hey, at least I know my over night deposit got there!),...

  10. Anyone in at Baylor?

    My_brain_hurts replied to OneTraumaRN's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I kept checking my cellphone to make sure there was really a Houston number on the call history I got the letter yesterday and over nighted my deposit. I think it wasn't due until March? (don't quote...

  11. Which is better CCU or SICU for CRNA?

    My_brain_hurts replied to AllAngelsRN's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I got accepted with about 1.5 yrs experience in medical ICU at a country/regional level I trauma center. We have reeeaaallly sick pt's. During interviews, was asked if we had many pt's on vaso...

  12. Is it true that CRNA programs want at least 5 years of experience?.....

    My_brain_hurts replied to JoeAnaesthesia's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Maybe as one ages the crazy hours required to pass some classes won't be as easy to take --shoot, I can't stay up and pull all nighters now like I did in my first degree, and that was just ten years...

  13. Houston Medical Center parking

    My_brain_hurts posted a topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Okay, so now that I know I'm going to Baylor, I'll have LOTS of questions for everyone who is already enrolled. So lets start with a few of the MOST important ones. . . WHERE DO YOU PARK? Or, in a...

  14. Houston Medical Center parking

    My_brain_hurts replied to My_brain_hurts's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I'm hoping contract parking will come out to "less" than $12 a day. I need to call the parking people --think I can find that from the post before yours (thanks for postin that, whoever you are)-- and...

  15. Anyone in at Baylor?

    My_brain_hurts replied to OneTraumaRN's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Just got the call to day! I was so down because UTHSC said 'no'. I figured I had like zero chance at Baylor because, well, it's BAYLOR. But I got the phone call this morning! time to load up on...

  16. Greetings from Missouri

    My_brain_hurts replied to lionkingfan56's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I think I recognize your 'name'. Glad to see you these boards! I just got accepted to Baylor (still jumping around with excitement). Your grades look good. I had not so hot grades (Cs, ahem) in O...

  17. Who interviewed at UTHSC Houston?

    My_brain_hurts replied to My_brain_hurts's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Now I'm really worried, and confused. So some say 'admission' and some say 'provisional'? What's up with that? they're just trying to be difficult :) Are they going to post on UTLINK if we're not...

  18. Who interviewed at UTHSC Houston?

    My_brain_hurts replied to My_brain_hurts's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Oh you're KILLING ME! it's after 10pm and the site is down for the evening! I can't look until tomorrow. I'm bracing myself for the let down of not getting in I just don't know how I did in the...

  19. major error in NICU

    My_brain_hurts replied to ana97abby03's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    The baby lived, and you will remember this for the rest of your life and the best thing is you will LEARN from it! You said yourself its a good thing it was a full term baby. This was your moment of...

  20. How high have you titrated levophed?

    My_brain_hurts replied to racing-mom4's topic in MICU, SICU

    I've run pressors higher than "max", usually have the doc right an order stating something like "titrate above xyz as needed", or something to that effect so that there's a record that they knew it...

  21. ICU Nurse opinions

    My_brain_hurts replied to NickiLaughs's topic in MICU, SICU

    I think sometimes what we do in the ICU -prolonging life when if it were my pet I'd have put them down long ago, or multiple codes when you know the pt is less likely to survive after each one and you...

  22. Who interviewed at UTHSC Houston?

    My_brain_hurts replied to My_brain_hurts's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I had five questions written down to ask them (because I knew my brain would have fallen out by the end of the interview) but I got all of the questions answered while we talked with the students in...

  23. CCN question

    My_brain_hurts replied to RACH22689's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I do work at a level I trauma center. It trains very well I think, it just doesn't have an "official" internship program. We see lots of vents, drips --although they don't uses swans very often in my...

  24. CCN question

    My_brain_hurts replied to RACH22689's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Depends on where you apply. I got an ICU job right out of school. The hospital doesn't have an 'official' internship program, but they are very good to new grads, good preceptor experience, really...

  25. Baylor Losing Paperwork

    My_brain_hurts replied to erc512's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I kind of had trouble with them, but I sent stuff the day before the hurricane hit. OOOPS! they were really nice about looking at my file and tellig me what I was missing. Being the paranoid...