Trauma Tom

TRAKSTAR, Do these same rates of reimbursement for medicare apply to private insurance? If not it appears that the only benefit to using AA's is in cases where Medicare is involved. I am assuming however, that private insurance must follow the same r...

Nilepoc Excellent post. I have never really looked at it the way you presented the argument in your post. It makes me want to re-examine my own feelings toward the practice of AA's. If their primary motives are indeed to decrease the shortage of anes...

I have watched this discussion with a great deal of interest and have wanted to respond numerous times, however held my comments for fear of offending those with different views or training than my own. However, here goes! WARNING! This will be a lon...

In the SICU where I worked we did not use iced injectate, however instead of NS we were taught during our critical care course to use D5W. Anyone else ever hear this?

Thanks, See you at graduation in May and good luck at MCG this fall. Tom

I had one year of Trauma/SICU experience in a level one Trauma Center prior to applying. Prior to completing nursing school I was a nurse extern in the same hospital for almost a year with six months in the ER and then six months in the SICU. I also ...

I applied after my first year in the ICU. Applied to five schools, granted five interviews, accepted at two, alternate at two, and turned down by one. Of the two schools I thought I would get in I was an alternate at one and turned down by the other....

I applied after my first year in the ICU. Applied to five schools, granted five interviews, accepted at two, alternate at two, and turned down by one. Of the two schools I thought I would get in I was an alternate at one and turned down by the other....

As one of those older (49) soon to be SRNA's let me throw in my two cents about your age. At 21 years of age the United States Navy started investing over $1,000,000 to train me to fly off an aircraft carrier in an aircraft that was designed to deliv...

Tammy, I am so looking forward to getting started. I have already rented an apartment. My last day of work is May, 2. I want to take at least a month to get moved and settled, and spend some quality time with my family before I start. My daughter is ...

Best of luck to you!

My best advise is go spend time in an ICU and shadow an ICU nurse for a day. This will give you more insight into the difference between the two. Although, I think you will find that medical/surgical nursing, whether on the floor, or in the unit is b...

IRBsleeping After twenty years in the restaurant business, I changed careers and started Nursing school at 46. I had a previous bachelor's degree so I went through an ADN to finish and get working as fast as possible. After 4 semesters in an ADN prog...

Congratulations

I was very impressed with what I was able to find out about MUSC. I had wanted to apply there but was told that they will not accept or interview anyone unless they have completed two years of ICU experience by their application deadline, not the sta...

Congratulations and the best of luck to you. I will be starting a program this summer and I am excited as well. I have decided to follow others advice and relax over the summer. I have been in school for the past nine semesters. I finish my BSN in Ma...

Congratulations. Best of luck to you. T-Tom

Yoga CRNA or LOISANE, Thank you for addressing this issue.I have been confused on this issue. I could not understand why the opt out was so important since CRNA's can practice without MDA supervision. I have tried to research the OPT out issue howeve...

I must say as a future SRNA how refreshing it is to come to this board and see CRNA's and MDA's discussing their clinical experiences and exchanging their views and experiences that can only enhance the relationship between the professions as opposed...

Roland, I understand what you are trying to do and I think you should try to work at the Trauma I center. If you missed the deadline for the summer extern program you may want to consider trying to contact the clinical manager from the ICU you want t...

Best of Luck!

I am waiting to hear from Gooding, when did you find out and did they call or did you get a letter?

Way to go. Doesn't it feel great? I am sure you can not wait to get started. I start in the fall and am really excited to get started. Good luck.

JSB, Try not to worry so much about your GPA. I also went to an ADN program that did not give out real high GPA's. In the last two classes that graduated there were no 4.0 averages. All of my prerequisite courses I had all A's and one B in Intro to P...

Susswood, One can debate the merits of ER versus ICU experience as there are many ER's that have critical care rooms where you can get some ICU experience. I feel that having both, ER and ICU experience or any other experience along with the ICU expe...