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Be prepared for a movies coming out starring Jessica Alba called "Awake". Apparently it is a full length movie about a man experiencing awareness while have heart surgery. As if we don't have enough with shows like Gray's Anatomy, E.R. etc...Now Hollywood will be advertising every surgical patients worst fear via movie trailers on the 6:00 news. http://movies.about.com/od/christensenhayden/a/awake090105.htm

I am currently in the program just about finishing my 1st year....I would HIGHLY recommend that you look in to graduate housing on campus. They are 2 bedroom apts- almost brand new, 1 block from the Bass building where you will be having class. They are quiet and comparitively cheap to an apartment. You get a 2 bedroom w/all bills paid, even phone, ethernet, and cable w/8HBO's and 6 High Definition Channels if you have an HDTV for $1000. My wife and I rent ours Solely, but I know people in our class who let the grad housing folks know they were single, and they hooked them up w/a roomate in the program. It is worth it to be able to leave at 0855 for a 0900 class, and be able to go home for lunch, or walk to the library in about 3 minutes.....Check into it on the TCU website.....here is the link...http://http://www.rlh.tcu.edu/GSA.HTM Best get your name on the list NOW if interested. Good luck in the program.

Try Dorsch & Dorsch "Understanding Anesthesia Equipment" The metallic strip inside the vaporizer acts as a thermostatically controlled valve. The two metals expand/contract differently at the same temperature causing it to bend w/temp changes inside the vaporizer. This allows more/restricts fresh gas flow through the vaporizer.

Does this ICP monitor have a protruding bolt from the patient's head? If so this is an Camino ICP bolt which was inserted. There are 2 types of Camino bolts, 1 is strictly for monitoring ICP, the second has an extra port on the tubing for draining fluid, i.e. CSF, Blood, this tube is then connected to a Becker drain. There is also a Ventricluostomy system that is usually connected to a Becker drainage system, in this system there is no bolt, just a catheter (white) which is about the diameter of IV tubing placed in the chosen area. The third type of ICP monitor system is the Codman System. This is the fiberoptic catheter system you are describing. This system is used only for monitoring, not drainage. It is primarily used for pt's with brain swelling issues (C.H.I.) not issues of hydrocephalus where csf/blood drainage is required. If you witnessed the monitor palced at the bedside, then it was most definitely a Camino ICP bolt which can be easily placed in around 15 minutes on a pt. The other monitors are usually placed in the O.R. under anesthesia. The advantages and disadvantages really have to do with what monitor is right for your pt's condition.

I will be starting with you at TCU come August. I am anxious to see wht is up as well seeing that I really havent seen much or heard much from TCU since acceptance. I am originally from Oklahoma but have been working in Dallas for the past two years, living in Valley Ranch. I am recently married(5/15), and my wife and I have been placed in one of the graduate apartments just east of our school. It's a sweet deal. $995 per month rent includes rent,all bills,cable with 3 HBO's, and it is only 2 blocks from where we will be having class. My clinical site is Harris S.W. I have allready got all my loans squared away, and am trying to pick up as many shifts as possible to pay off my wife's compulsive pre-marital credit card expenditures at retail shops ...you now Victorias Secret, Limited, etc.. all the things the girls must have at 18% interest! The way it looks so far is CRNA=Ramen Noodles/PB&J, and JAVA. Looking forward to meet all of my fellow O.C.D'rs in the fall. Any similar plans for all you future horned frogs listening?

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I would say that it is good, reason being, they did not say "NO". I have been accepted into the 2nd class at T.C.U., but I have a friend who works on the same unit as I, whom they told "no", srtaight up. Keep your head up, it sounds like they see real potential in you.

Hey alansmth52, Maybe if you did your homework you would find that TCU's staff is comprised of mostly former TWU staff. Kay Sanders is now the director at TCU, she was TWU's director for 14 years.

Maggielee, I interviewed last month and was accepted into TCU's 2nd class. I don't know how your interview will be, since it is very late in the process but here is how my interview went. I arrived 30min early expecting that i would need that much time to vomit r/t nerves. The director Kat Sanders met me in the waiting room, and we started early. There was Mrs.Sanders, Mr.Tim Gollaher (Instructor), and Mr.Robert Kelsey(Instructor) in the room with me. I on one side of the table and they on the other. They took turns with the questions starting with personal, get-to-know-about-you sort of things. Then they asked me in great detail about clinical questions related to my background which is Trauma/Neuro/Surgery I.C.U. I really was not probed about vasoactive drugs, or many drugs of any type for that matter. The questions were mostly situational. What would you do if your patient........Then there is the ABG?'s that everyone gets, Rhythym strips, etc that you would expect. But like I said It was mostly tailored to my experience, and the questions related to my field increased in complexity until I finally had to say "I dont know". I think that this was something they were looking for, to see what I wold say if I did not know. So, don't try and B.S. them, just admit it. The most dangerous thing a nurse can do is not ask if they don't know all the answers. Honestly, It was not that brutal. I had interviewed other places before TCU and the interviews were basically the same. I was accepted to the other programs, but chose TCU. When is your interview, hope you do well, hope to meet you in August.

TCU/TWU both have them. I have just been accepted and have not even seen them yet but I have been told that you begin using them the first semester. It seems to be a very exciting new tool. See TCU's CRNA site too see the simulator and it's history.

Hello, I Just recently interviewed with three different schools. First Old Dominion, Then TCU, Then TWU. I will tell you that each schools interview process was very different. Old Dominion was basically a get to know you sort of deal. I was asked mostly personal questions about my relationships at work, my clinical eperience, why I wanted to be a CRNA,and my personal attributes etc. This was very comfortable. They felt that your experience, and the fact that you had made it to the interview pool, spoke in itself that you know your stuff. They wanted to see if you possessed the qualities personally to be successfull in thier program. TCU was a panel of the director and two faculty members. This interview was a few personal questions, and clinical questions. The majority of the clinical questions were related to my field of critical care nursing which is trauma/neuro. I was accepted int ODU before my TCU interview ever occurred, so some of the weight had been lifted already. TCU notified me a week later that I had been accepted, and since it is the school I had hoped to go to I notified TWU that I would not be attending my interview with them. I start in August-yahooooo!