Be_Moore

Hello friends. I plan to apply to CRNA school next year, and KPSAN is my first choice. I'm curious if there is any advice that I could get from any current students, or graduates, about the application process and things I can do to strengthen my res...

Just wanted to add in to this that Google Drive is cheaper on all plans, and offers more free storage up front (at 5gb). So just to let everyone know that there is a very solid competitor to drop box that is cheaper. It's what I use for backing up al...

I didn't have a math test in my interview, exactly. I was asked questions about gas laws (why they expected me to know this, I have no idea). ABG interpretation and being able to calculate an anion gap from a chem7 is also essential. Other than being...

It's all about the job experience. A job in a busy/large ICU will be much more impressive on a resume than a job in a small ICU that transfers its sick patients to larger hospitals. CRNA schools love applicants from teaching facilities (university ho...

I don't know anything about a math requirement, but it could be. Here's how the TWU interview works. You will interview with a panel of people. One of them will be a professor from TWU, one will be a clinical coordinator at your interview site, and t...

They don't weigh it that much, I don't believe. I know a person who got an interview (and accepted) with a 900 (old scoring where the minimum requirement was a 1000)...but that person also dropped out in the first semester. It only matters insofar as...

I've heard that it is one of the biggest strains on relationships around. I'm lucky in that I don't have kids, but I can see how it would be really tough with them. I don't get to see my girlfriend much, but luckily she is an MD so therefore is very ...

Well, I'm an SRNA, not a CRNA, but since no one else has responded... Anesthesia doesn't really seem like the adrenaline game, definitely much more of a thinking game. It's been described as 99%/1%. 99% routine and 1% sheer terror when something goes...

I'm guessing that means book smarts. Knows the answers to questions about receptor activation, etc. I'm 27 as a first year. Most of us are probably in the 26-30 range, though there are more than a few 30+ and 40+, and a handful of 50+. And, of c...

I have the TNCC and I can say it was a joke. Had about 1 year ICU experience at the time and it's nothing that you don't already know (if you have nursing experience), it's just placed in a format that is kinda new. As far as skills, you just have to...

Critical Care transport, Flight nursing (helicopter or fixed wing).

The pressures could be different, but usually you would see the opposite pattern. The fem a-line would have a crap pressure while the brachial cuff pressure would be okay. That's when you are thinking something like aortic dissection. I would almost ...

I second the previous post. They are going to ask critical care related questions, not so much anesthesia related questions. Get a good CCRN book and read that. If you can pass your CCRN before interviews, that would be optimal. Passing your CCRN mea...

Nurse Informatics. Designing and implementing computerized systems. critical care nursing perspective is invaluable in that area.

1) Either satisfy them all or find the most common themes between them and pick the route in which you will satisfy most of them. Most nursing schools run very similar pre-req patterns anyway. 2)Did 2 years of pre-med Chem first, so 6 hours physics, ...

Allowed to? You won't really have a lot of time to. Had former two roomies who were med kids and they spent most of their time either studying or complaining about how they should be studying. But yeah, in 7 years of school you can become a CRNA, in ...

I work in an ICU and we check everyone who comes through the doors for MRSA with a nasal swab. In terms of checking healthcare workers....your hospital doesn't want to do that because honestly...they don't want to know.

Believe it or not, anything an RT can do an RN can do (and theoretically should be competent doing). Unfortunately since RT has become so prevalent our nursing schools have started to fail us in this training. But yeah, you don't NEED an RT anywhere,...

Honestly, with preceptorship looming, it may be too late for you. Right now your goal should be finish school, pass NCLEX ASAP. Start applying to jobs as soon as you graduate and let them know your testing date for NCLEX. But it can not be denied, a ...

1) Think of the valves like doors. If you are opening a door, you have to push the door harder than the air pressure on the other side of the door (as well as harder than the resistance created by the door frame) to open it. If you don't push harder ...

The more than 3L is not exactly true..I've taken care of COPD patients who are on continuous home O2 @ 4L who come in with a perfect gas. The amount of O2 they are on will vary per patient on how much CO2 they retain. On the other hand, yeah she need...

The only real like "tip" type thing that I have to remember EKG changes is that you can look at the T-Wave as a tent for potassium. If you have a low K, you will have flattened out T-waves. If you have a high K, you will have tall-peaked T-waves. Oth...

The first response nailed it--bleeding at tumor sights is very common. Think of the cliche of the man who discovered he had lung cancer after coughing up blood. The same is true of the brain. A patient with a brain tumor will eventually bleed intracr...

I think the fact that this case is even going to court is proof that the DA has nothing better to do. He doesn't have a solid case. There is too much reasonable doubt (which is all you need to prevent a conviction) to protect this woman...a patient i...

ICU you will definitely clean a lot of poop. Can't speak of ORs or ERs, but I am sure they are not entirely exempt either. Best advice? Work outpatient, like a clinic. Cardiac stress clinic, pain management clinic, etc. Or just get over it. Cleaning ...