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I'm encountering a huge number of obese patients for gastric bypass--Would love any tips, tricks or hints on what you do to increase your success with intubations of these patients.

Thanks so much for the advice...I wasn't sure about becoming incororated but had thought about it once I read about legal issues (eg, IRS definition of an employee vs independent contractor)--but one CRNA I worked with did some independent contracting and had advised me that it wasn't worth the time and expense to become incorporated. I didn't know it was possible to pursue this without having huge legal fees involved. And, being new to this, any advice on how to find a good CPA? I've never used one before.

Thanks so much for the advice...I wasn't sure about becoming incororated but had thought about it once I read about legal issues (eg, IRS definition of an employee vs independent contractor)--but one CRNA I worked with did some independent contracting and had advised me that it wasn't worth the time and expense to become incorporated. I didn't know it was possible to pursue this without having huge legal fees involved. And, being new to this, any advice on how to find a good CPA? I've never used one before.

Hello all, I was hoping for some advice on independent contracting and tax benefits. I currently work as an employee for a group and don't get any benfits outside of retirement and malpractice. I am also going to independent contract 2-4 days per month. Does anyone know if I can still take advantage of tax write-offs from independent contracting (such as paying for my own health insurance) if I'm still working as an employee for another group? Hope this makes sense.

Having actually graduated from Georgetown's CRNA program, I can actually attest to the fact that you cannot enter the CRNA portion of the BSN-MSN program without having fulfilled the requirement for ICU experience. What happens is that you take non-anesthesia courses to complete the BSN portion (some of the non-anesthesia classes eventually transfer over and apply to the msn requirements) and then have to apply/obtain approval to enter the MSN/Nurse Anesthesia program phase. You may get accepted to the BSN/MSN track but that doesn't guarantee admission to the Nurse Anesthesia program. However, some other advanced practice nursing specialites do not require any actual clinical practice as an RN prior to admittance (such as family nurse practitioner programs--I have friends who went straight from obtaining a BSN in nursing to attending MSN programs for FNP).

I was 25 when I was accepted and have recently finished the program. I started working as an RN when I was 24 and only had 1.5 years of experience by the time I started the CRNA program. I applied at 3 schools and was accepted at all of them (1 told me I was accepted during my interview). I worked at a trauma hospital to maximize my experience and have no regrets. There were 2 other people in the program who were my age as well.