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I'm not surprised you've resorted to personal attacks. I'll keep an eye out for your own thread about sexual harassment of male nurses. Have a nice day.

Yeah, and good for her. You say this as if it's a bad thing. Except that's NOT what this post was about, so stop trying to minimize what happened to the OP like it's not a big deal just because stuff like this happens to men too. Of course it hap...

Need a few more details on this one. You mention your "first degree"--was this in nursing or something else? How long ago was it? How does your GPA since your first degree measure up? What is your science GPA and what sciences have you taken? Ha...

DNAP vs. DNP in anesthesia degrees creates a lot of confusion. Both are terminal degrees for CRNAs, and soon having one or the other will be the entry-to-practice requirement. The actual difference between the two degrees is that the DNAP is typica...

Incorrect. Both the DNP and DNAP are considered terminal degrees. Having one vs. the other as a CRNA does not affect one's prospects for teaching in a nurse anesthesia program. Both would be doctorally-prepared CRNAs. Also incorrect. There are ...

I'm going through school now as a mom to toddlers. The amount of free time you have at any given point depends on how the program is structured. In my first two semesters I was able to continue working and still had a reasonable amount of time to s...

I have nothing helpful to offer other than to say, "Good luck with med school."

I once worked in a facility like this. When I attempted, along with my nursing and physician colleagues, to provide evidence to administration why severe nursing staff shortages were unsafe in emergency and critical care settings, our concerns were ...

The climate of medicine is certainly NOT more liberal. As noted above, intolerance is a completely different issue. The more recent cases that I believe you're referring to (i.e., a medical professional is prosecuted for refusing to provide care in...

Agreed. Or they work in toxic environments they either can't or won't leave.

In the ERs I worked in, yes this was a policy. When there were emergencies in which every second counted however, not everyone who needed to be at the bedside could be properly masked up in time. This was acceptable as long as it was documented in ...

To sit for the CCRN exam, you need to have spent 1750 hours providing direct care of acutely ill/critically ill patients within the past two years, and at least 875 of those hours accrued need to be within the most recent year. What that means is th...

Just my opinion, but I don't think the co-presence of an anesthesia residency and a nurse anesthesia program at the same institution is necessarily a bad thing, as long as the nurse anesthesia students don't have to compete against residents for the ...

You might also want to consider researching the graduate degree programs you would potentially apply to later on. Most program websites will include fairly detailed information on what is required for admission, including any undergraduate degree ac...

^Haha sorry for the multiple edits in my above post. Not sure if it was something with this site, my connection, or whatever else, but my comment kept posting before I had a chance to look it over and make sure it was saying what I was intending it ...

Ah, OK, thanks for the link. From your initial post I thought you were implying that Johns Hopkins currently has an entry-to-practice nurse anesthesia program. Now that I see the job posting, my impression is that JH may be hiring for a program dir...

I think you've been misinformed or simply misunderstood something you've heard. Johns Hopkins does indeed have DNP programs, but not an entry-to-practice nurse anesthesia program. Their hospital is a clinical site for nurse anesthesia students for ...

Whether that matters or not depends on two things. First, some ADN to MSN programs award a BSN along the way, others do not. Second, some DNP programs require a BSN, although most recognize MSNs for entry. In other words, the scenario the other nu...

Yikes. I just looked at the course description. There's no WAY I'd pay that kind of money for what it offers. Especially because it doesn't count towards any degree requirement. It's advertised as something to help prepare potential applicants fo...

I've never heard of any blanket protocol that recommends holding tube feedings during dialysis in ICU settings (and I'm here in the US), nor can I identify generalized recommendations for such in the literature. An exception for this would be if the...

Hard to know based on this information alone, but things that I would immediately suspect: the patient fluid removal rate has been on the low side for an extended period of time and/or the patient is hypercoagulable for whatever reason. Having a fil...

Dude, I actually said nothing of the sort. Like Jules extrapolated the findings of the research he/she posted links to, you're extrapolating waaaaaaay beyond anything I posted. On the contrary, I enjoy having very collaborative relationships with ...

I'm sorry, but I didn't bother going past the first link. An abstract about patient referrals is supposed to be high-quality evidence that supports physician-led care has better outcomes than APRN-led care? It's not even measuring the same thing. ...

OK, but neither of you answered my question. Can you provide links to the high-quality research you're referring to that disputes anything I said? I'm seriously not trying to be facetious. I'd like to educate myself.

Interesting opinion. Would you be able to link to some research that supports this? I ask this because the only well-validated research I've found consistently indicates that the quality of patient outcomes is independent of provider type. I think...