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Hey all- I'm an SRNA with a little more than a year left in school, and I'm here seeking some advice with intubation technique. I started out, as did the majority of my class, using the Mac blade for intubations. Most preceptors advised me to become ...

One thing I kind of wish that I had done before hand is paid more attention to the Anesthesia flow sheets on my ICU patients. (If your hospital has flowsheets) It will give you a good idea of the drugs that they are using, and in what dosages. You ca...

I second the Morgan & Mikhail suggestion. It's a great book to get started with. However, some of it probably won't mean much to you until you start school, and are immersed in the anesthesia world. Good luck!

WOW on the IV Nimodipine... That sucks.

Haha,- Yes, I was fortunate enough to land a job in a high acuity ICU right after graduation. I basically knew that I wanted to be a CRNA straight out of high school, so that helped me not waste any time, and helped me focus my efforts. Not that any...

I am one of the youngest in my class at age 24. I think our range is from 24 to 40.

Propforall- I think you made the right decision. You will be exceptionally well rounded when you begin your program.

Goody-- I work in a 40 bed ICU. There are probably around 10-15 open heart surgeries per week. So at LEAST once a week I am taking care of a fresh open heart patient who is still sedated and not yet extubated. We recover and extubate the hearts on th...

I'm leaving for school next month, and currently have 2 years 4 months experience. At the time I interviewed I had almost 1.5 years.I have felt infinitely more comfortable at my job after about month 14, and even more so at the 2 year mark. I feel li...

Did you get GradPLUS loans on top of your Federal Subsidized/Unsubsidized loans? I took out the max on both GradPLUS and the Sub/Unsub loans, and that leaves me an excess of $5000 per quarter to live on, which translates to about $1660/month. Its not...

I'm still waiting here.. I guess that means maybe I'm still in the running? Kind of expecting to see a rejection email every time my phone tells me I have a new message in my inbox. So I guess phone call is good, email is bad?

Any updates for anyone? I interviewed in December, and I'm pretty sure the March interviews are done with... I'm expecting notification one way or the other soon. Anyone else heard anything?

That sounds ludicrously unnecessary. Has the surgeon ever provided a rationale for this? A gas on a sedated and ventilated patient isn't going to change that dramatically very quickly. You can look at a newly extubated patient's condition and guess w...

Likewise-- Bummer. But I guess I'm Cincy or Pitt bound now. Not bad schools either.

Amiro-- No I have not received an email from them yet. I am hopeful though after reading that they won't be done emailing until the end of January. I put in my application on the last day, so perhaps they are working their way towards me.. ? Good luc...

Hey, Amiro. I'm from Tennessee. I got a letter in the mail yesteday stating that they needed further information about my stats class. Unfortunately my undergrad school has very uninformative class titles. My stats class was named "Data Analysis and ...

I haven't even received word that they got my application. Have you guys? Where are you all from?

I had problems printing it as well. After three attempts with text running outside of the borders of the page I just copy and pasted it in to word and got it to print well enough. Got that thing over-nighted by the post office on 11/30, haha just bef...

I believe Hi-Ho is right about ICU vs. hospital wide lab interpretation. The patients in the ICU are sicker, and therefore less likely to tolerate slight electrolyte imbalances than healthier patients (ie: those in other areas of the hospital). The l...

Right now I have been accepted to two schools, with an application at Pitt still pending. My stats are as follows.. BSN GPA: 3.7 GRE: 1120/4.0 Experience: 1.5 Years experience CVICU, Openhearts and swans daily. Will have approx 2-2.5 years at time of...

Whoa, that's pretty bad. Yes- If you introduce air into a line that is inside the patient, an air embolus can occur. I think the balloon (I assume that's what they were trying to inflate) generally holds about 1.5ml of air, depending on manufacturer....

For those of you using precedex for open heart recovery-- Are your open hearts already reversed when they come out to you? I can't imagine using precedex for these people! Where I work we reverse the patient when they meet certain requirements (CT ou...

Was your patient pacing in DOO, or ASYNCHRONOUS? This would be my bet for the cause of the patient's arrest, given that you said the patient had no underlying rhythm. I never, ever trust that the patient has _NO_ rhythm at all under the pacer, and so...

See you guys there. Good luck!

Hey people. I'm currently a CVICU nurse, and I'm looking to augment my income with a little bit of extra PRN work. However, I'm already on my feet for 12 hours at a time and extremely busy on the nights that I work my full time job... So I'm looking ...