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Just wanted to say kudos to you neuro guys. I work in CT-ICU, and recently had a patient who had a hemorrhagic stroke in which they did an emergent craniotomy and placement of EVD's. Normally, the patient would be tx to neuro ICU, but the pt had some...

Got an offer for and accepted at Duke for CRNA! I also found out 2 of my friends/co-workers got in as well! Can't wait! So glad this chapter is over!!!!!!

Post op AV replacement. PEA arrest, opened up the chest only to find a new ruptured aortic aneurysm/disection. Two words: RED SEA.

Hey if you all have any difficulty finding the page, PM me and I'll get you my fb info so we can friend each other, and I'll be able to send you an invite.

Yea... def taking too long. So posted an unofficial one "Duke CRNA 2015 Unofficial" Feel free to jump on. I talked to a few people coming into town in Oct/Nov to scope out living situations, so I figured that would be a good place to talk about every...

Haha! So true. Yeah after looking at it with my fiance (CCU RN), we figured looks more like 3rd degree rather than 2nd... p waves march out, AV dissociation.

I tend to agree with the OP interpretation, leaning more towards a block. I've seen patients with 3rd deg heart block with atrial and ventricular rates within 20 bpm of each other. Tends to make it look almost regular sinus minus some missed QRS and ...

Yup same sorta plan here once I'm done. I figure the avg CRNA salary is somewhere between 2.5-3x my current nursing salary. So I live off 1/3 (same lifestyle as now), use 1/3 to pay off loans, and the other 1/3 goes into savings. No new cars, same ap...

Oh yea I remember you! I'm originally from Orlando... FL represent! The other girl that works with me also got in.. she's originally from FL too! PM me if you need any help figuring out where to live!

I'm interested, let us know what the title is and I'll join.

Double post..

I know of a few people who got into CRNA school with about the same GPA. But it's all about balancing it out, and it took a fair amount of work for them to become competitive. One guy took 3-4 graduate level chemistry & A/P classes... aced them. ...

Yup in my interviews it wasn't so much about who had their CCRN, but who DIDN'T have their CCRN. It's competitive so give yourself every advantage you can: CCRN GRE >1100 Good GPA or A/B's in grad level courses Preceptor/Charge Committee Work It's...

Sounds like you'd do well in a cardiac medicine or cardiac surgical floor. My advice would be to start talking to the NM's of those floors, set up a day to shadow one of their nurses. Be sure to soak it all in and ask pertinent questions. Remember al...

FYI... you know it's July when a open chest patient codes and the resident is trying to jump on the chest and do compressions, while we are all yelling at him to step away so we can get in. hahaha for real, true story a few weeks ago.

Plus, I like how Duke's program is integrated, meaning into the OR's 2nd semester and getting more hands on exp. I learn better when I'm applying the reading knowledge to actual hands on practice, which is one of the reasons why I chose Duke over ECU...

When you start coming up with lyrics & song titles for the sounds of your alarms. When you do a little jig every hour that your patient actually meets index When you can identify your drips by sense of smell. When your patient's room looks cleane...

Look for learning opportunities and never stop asking the "why" questions. Not sure what your work environment is like with the MD's, but I've found if you ask them to explain the rationale because you don't understand and want to learn, most are wil...

We just started using the CALS protocol (Cardiac Surgery Adv Life Support) which is a modified version of ACLS specific to CV/CTICU pts. Basically, if pt's meet certain criteria and they code, after 3 stacked shocks, we already start prepping the che...

-When you joke to the resident about foley to low wall suction for low UOP... and they actually start putting in orders.

Oh nice, I was there on Wed too! I was the asian guy with the fauhawk from Duke

Awesome me too Cutter! Congrats! See you in Jan! Are you from this area? If not PM me if you have any questions about living in Raleigh/Durham, I'd be happy to help you out. Just send me a PM and I'll get up with you.

Thanks! Honestly, ECU's interview was the most intimidating, but you are right about Duke's being brutal... ECU's it was me talking to like 14 different people asking questions. Duke was me talking to 5 people. In both interviews they were pretty ea...

I guess the only real way to find out would be to go through the program, then go through another program. I was in the same situation last week... trying to figure out if I was going to go to ECU or to Duke. Obviously, ECU is MUCH cheaper, and they ...

Just look at the bright side... if they code, their chest is already open :)