renardeau BSN, RN

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    Union University

    renardeau replied to lposh's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I just saw a facebook post about a prospective student who got their acceptance rescinded for being openly gay and planning to live with their significant other... Something to consider. It's a very...
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    Nursing Licensure while in school.

    renardeau replied to Walkingbad's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I'm not in those particular states, but I had moved from MD to VA (both compact) and had a similar situation. It's my understanding that if you have an NC address, you can keep your NC license. If...
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    CoreConcepts and APEX board preparation test scores

    renardeau posted a topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    What range do your programs tell you that you should be in to pass boards? My program told me scoring in the 60-70s range was fine in APEX, and in APEX you can see the national averages are around...
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    CRNAs: We are the Answer

    renardeau replied to Bluebolt's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    A large portion of my family are doctors as well, so this is anecdotal from them and also from my own experience having rotated with them and with residents. Medical students may touch the patient,...
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    Teaching nursing with a Ph.D. in medicine?

    renardeau replied to BRN131417's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    My chemistry and physics, pathophysiology, physiology professor in my nurse anesthesia program is a non-nurse and he is
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    10 things that got me accepted to CRNA school

    renardeau replied to CRNA 1984's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Just my 2 cents: SICU is a safe ICU and makes sense given the recovery period and environment, but most of the people in my program (many of the SICU) agree that cardiac ICU (whether it's surgical or...
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    Fastest Route Possible?

    renardeau replied to 504girl's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Along the lines of fellow posters, try drug reps or other medical tech/supply companies, e.g. Abiomed, Medtronic, Covidien, etc. They appreciate people with clinical experience/health backgrounds. The...
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    Age Demographics from your Programs..

    renardeau replied to Gunship's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Our class is mid-20s on average with a range of 24-late 30s (not sure of exact age of one person) at the start of the program, I believe. I say if it's a subject you enjoy and your finances allow for...
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    Frustrating... ED is Not Critical Care

    renardeau replied to bgxyrnf's topic in Emergency

    This is super delayed and but I tend to the visit this site in spurts and then leave in spurts... I was re-reading old threads that I got alerts from and just wanted to clarify. I truly don't believe...
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    Frustrating... ED is Not Critical Care

    renardeau replied to bgxyrnf's topic in Emergency

    My ICU was a trauma I 800+ bed hospital and we precepted many different types of nurses from new grads to seasoned ICU nurses. For us, ED nurses (both ours and from other hospitals) always had the...
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    How old were you when you started CRNA school?

    renardeau replied to Nolander's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I started at 26 and will be 29 when I finish my doctorate
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    IV extensions

    renardeau replied to Dubs3035's topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes, I just add a little extension tubing with some stopcocks for this purpose---like a mini-carrier. If my patient is requiring enough drugs for a real carrier bar with ~5 stopcocks to be...
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    Columbia CRNA Summer 2017 (MSN)

    renardeau posted a topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Just curious, has anyone heard back about interviews yet? I got an email saying my application passed initial review, but nothing
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    Inova Fairfax - critical care training?

    renardeau posted a topic in Virginia Nursing

    Has anyone gone through Inova's critical care program before? I am told they do a fellowship or some sort of coursework to help bridge you into critical care if you already have med/surg experience,...
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    What are you like as a patient/the sick one?

    renardeau posted a topic in Health, Stress Management

    I'm currently incapacitated at home with little to no will to move. My lovely fiancé is my caretaker today as I make my way through the course of what appears to be either food poisoning or some...
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    2017 CRNA School Applicants: General Thread

    renardeau replied to mrdearmas's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Sorry, I meant to reply and then I thought I'd just wait until after I interviewed everywhere so I could post a re-cap and then I sort of forgot for a while So all in all, I applied to 3 schools:...
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    University of Maryland (UMD) CRNA program starting in 2017

    renardeau replied to SirNurse's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    SURFs did not change for
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    Columbia CRNA Summer 2017 (MSN)

    renardeau replied to renardeau's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Actual
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    University of Maryland (UMD) CRNA program starting in 2017

    renardeau replied to SirNurse's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Got the phone call today :) pretty surprised. I didn't feel great about my
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    Columbia CRNA Summer 2017 (MSN)

    renardeau replied to renardeau's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Lol guess I read them wrong---rejected. Almost a blessing in disguise because it would have been a hard decision. (I'll be going to Georgetown in the fall.) Columbia is an amazing program with...
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    Columbia CRNA Summer 2017 (MSN)

    renardeau replied to renardeau's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I didn't think they were so bad? There was laughter at my joke attempts at least . They definitely pushed for some answers that they might have felt I didn't answer so clearly, but it wasn't...
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    Columbia CRNA Summer 2017 (MSN)

    renardeau replied to renardeau's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    It was very personality-based. They will reiterate this to you when you get there, but if you have the interview, you have the stats/ICU experience and they just want to get to know you and see if you...
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    November 2016 Caption Contest. Win $100!

    renardeau replied to Joe V's topic in News, Announcements

    I have to warn you---I'm a difficult
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    2017 CRNA School Applicants: General Thread

    renardeau replied to mrdearmas's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Take a course or two (but one at a time, so you definitely get an A) if you're worried about GPA. Schools particularly like upper level sciences like organic/biochem/adv pharm/physiology etc....
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    If You Could Only Give ONE Piece of Advice to New RNs

    renardeau posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Having precepted some new graduates on the floor and in ICU, and having recently been one myself, if I could only give one piece of advice to any new graduate nurse, it would be this: accept criticism...