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  1. After being rejected

    Laughing Gas replied to gettingthere's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    When comparing CRNA's to RN's I think alot of the seperation comes in at independence. An RN assesses a process and then calls for medical or surgical intervention. At which point someone else makes...

  2. Anyone have any experience with anesthesia assistants compared to CRNAs ?

    Laughing Gas replied to MilwaukeeMike's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I may get covered in tar and feathers for this one but... I don't think MD supervision is always such a bad thing. Now keep in mind that supervision implies nothing more than a risk sharing contract,...

  3. Anyone have any experience with anesthesia assistants compared to CRNAs ?

    Laughing Gas replied to MilwaukeeMike's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    JWK, Do you have any links to sites that list current numbers of AA's in active practice? In your group AA's and CRNA's do equal work. In a lot of groups like mine, CRNA's have major independence....

  4. Anyone have any experience with anesthesia assistants compared to CRNAs ?

    Laughing Gas replied to MilwaukeeMike's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    You didn't disappoint me. :) I can only go by what this anesthesia director told me about his OR. While this may seem somewhat anecdotal, consider that they employ roughly a dozen AA's. That is a...

  5. Anyone have any experience with anesthesia assistants compared to CRNAs ?

    Laughing Gas replied to MilwaukeeMike's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    This sounds alot like an inflammatory troll post. I am sure some MDA's may feel this way, but I assumed most were smart enough not to aire it on a public forum. I'll bet this is some nobody trying to...

  6. Anyone have any experience with anesthesia assistants compared to CRNAs ?

    Laughing Gas replied to MilwaukeeMike's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Money. Less of it. I had occasion to talk with the MDA director of a local hospital which employs AA's and CRNA's. He told me that he prefered AA's over CRNA's due to the fact that he could hire them...

  7. Anyone have any experience with anesthesia assistants compared to CRNAs ?

    Laughing Gas replied to MilwaukeeMike's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I cannot speak for other posters, but I have not seen many if any, attacks on the skill of AA's. Much of the problem stems from the path taken to become AA. Also the more "economical" aspect of...

  8. Anyone have any experience with anesthesia assistants compared to CRNAs ?

    Laughing Gas replied to MilwaukeeMike's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    \ALL CRNA's have patient care experience. Yes a small minority have less than a year. But that is still a year more than is necessary for AA. Not to mention the four years that they spent in school...

  9. Anyone have any experience with anesthesia assistants compared to CRNAs ?

    Laughing Gas replied to MilwaukeeMike's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Indeed! I would hate to throw away my years of experience needed to qualify for CRNA. If we were all AA's, that time spent would have been wasted on silly ICU patient care. Too bad I didn't know about...

  10. Anyone have any experience with anesthesia assistants compared to CRNAs ?

    Laughing Gas replied to MilwaukeeMike's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Better check to see if you are really half way through undergrad classes and have some pre reqs for anesthesia school. Pre reqs for CRNA are pretty much master's level courses. Admission or allowance...

  11. Do you have any anesthesia helpers?

    Laughing Gas posted a topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I was talking with a couple fellow SRNA and CRNA's the other day. Someone relayed a story that we had all had similar experiences with. It seems to happen most in the OR. It has to do with non...

  12. SRNA wife about to loose it......

    Laughing Gas posted a topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Can I vent to all of you and ask for some input??? My husband ( this is his user name)... is 15 months out from graduating. We have three kids, 7, 4 and 10 months. I am an RN working weekend...

  13. SRNA wife about to loose it......

    Laughing Gas replied to Laughing Gas's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    This is the wife again.... My "only working" 8 days a month means that I am away from my family for "only" 8 days a month. They recently did a study that stated a mom with three kids works the...

  14. SRNA wife about to loose it......

    Laughing Gas replied to Laughing Gas's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Just stop

  15. Do you have any anesthesia helpers?

    Laughing Gas replied to Laughing Gas's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Exactly! This was my point. I had been a circulator/scrub for about 5 years. I thought I knew alot about anesthesia. I still like to think I was actually helpful and never overstepped my bounds. But I...

  16. How hard is it to get in?

    Laughing Gas replied to brazuca's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Wow! If I had a program I'd let you in. You already appear to have alot of what they look for. In my experience they seem to like alot of ancillary qualities. Family people are less likely to goof off...

  17. How hard is it to get in?

    Laughing Gas replied to brazuca's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    This may sound a little Zen and unuseful, but it is not necessarily "hard" to get in. You either have what the program is looking for, or you don't. You are fortunate in that you may already plan on...

  18. Akron Interview

    Laughing Gas replied to jbtt's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Read, read, read, read, read. Then when you are done, read some more. Read the teal ICU book. Read some pharm books. Know what classes of drugs are by an obscure name. If it ends in -OL, you know it's...

  19. SRNA wife about to loose it......

    Laughing Gas replied to Laughing Gas's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I may get drawn and quartered for this but... I completed my BSN in 2 semesters. I had to "add" classes to my registration form after it was signed so I could finish my BSN faster than what was...

  20. SRNA wife about to loose it......

    Laughing Gas replied to Laughing Gas's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    LOL! plant the seeds now. My wife tells me the only reason I became interested in anesthesia is so I could afford cars otherwise out of reach. If this were a car forum, I would have to agree. Since...

  21. SRNA wife about to loose it......

    Laughing Gas replied to Laughing Gas's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    True. We do make our kids aware of the cost of food. We stress to them the importance of not wasting. I have honestly not read each of my wife's posts, to see what she stated as our reason for wanting...

  22. SRNA wife about to loose it......

    Laughing Gas replied to Laughing Gas's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Having defended my wife's position.... to all else, thanks for your advice and words of encouragement for my wife. Our goal is to remain sane, and obstruct our kid's lives as little as possible....

  23. SRNA wife about to loose it......

    Laughing Gas replied to Laughing Gas's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    This is the real laughing gas... not the wife. Although your response is thinking globally, and would make a liberal start crying, it is of no consequence to my wife's stated problem. Yes, much of the...

  24. Shift Bidding Program

    Laughing Gas posted a topic in General Nursing

    The hospital I work for is implementing a shift bidding system online. We are trialing it for six weeks. Does anyone out there know how this system really works? We were inserviced on the basics, but...

  25. To CRNA/SRNA's who were 1st NICU nurses

    Laughing Gas replied to AliceMay's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    ALICE-- I am assuming you mean neonatal not neuro.. if so, I am an NICU nurse who's husband is in CRNA school. I believe Case Western takes PICU experience and maybe NICU, not sure. However, from what...