manusko

manusko

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  1. Did you feel CRNA school really prepared you?

    manusko replied to BritanyLPN's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    CRNA schools are between 24 and 36 months in length with many moving from MSN to DNP. 1-2 years critical care experience and then anesthesia

  2. AANA urges Medicare to consider hospital anesthesiology efficiency measures

    manusko replied to wtbcrna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Personally only so much is learned/taught in the classroom. The bulk of our education, IMO, comes from clinical. In clinical I would spend 10 mins with the MDA per case for the entire shift and the...

  3. Andrews AFB OR AETNA!!!!😬😬😬

    manusko replied to litebrightgirl's topic in General Nursing

  4. AANA urges Medicare to consider hospital anesthesiology efficiency measures

    manusko replied to wtbcrna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Anesthesiologists teach many of the courses and yes they do it for free. They get out of clinical obligations to teach each week. I guess it works since the school received their 10 yr...

  5. AANA urges Medicare to consider hospital anesthesiology efficiency measures

    manusko replied to wtbcrna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    My school is as well. Tuition was $52k times 20 students. The program director, assistant director and 2 admin people are on payroll. Instructors from the clinical staff volunteer to teach classes....

  6. AANA urges Medicare to consider hospital anesthesiology efficiency measures

    manusko replied to wtbcrna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Would be different if he would come to discuss things on common ground but he just tries to justify and support anything the MDA community

  7. AANA urges Medicare to consider hospital anesthesiology efficiency measures

    manusko replied to wtbcrna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    What percent of a CRNAs education do you think is

  8. Best start on road to CRNA

    manusko replied to cardiacnurse12's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    The one with the residency for

  9. Difficulty of CRNA school

    manusko replied to RNtobe15's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I have only heard of 2 schools which allow GPAs of 2.75 to apply. Not sure of any below that. I have known people over the last few years apply and interview at a couple of schools in Texas and not...

  10. Dating former patient

    manusko replied to usnurse11's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The fact that you are asking must mean that you are interested in him. I would be cautious about getting involved with someone that was a former pt and went for treatment due to a break

  11. Any advice to become a stronger candidate for CRNA school?

    manusko replied to bestclassever's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I agree. Some do not require any shadowing before school. That is a bad idea especially with schools that are front loaded and do not participate in clinicals until a year or

  12. Any advice to become a stronger candidate for CRNA school?

    manusko replied to bestclassever's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Personally I shadowed for 2 days and spoke with several CRNAs at length outside of that shadowing experience. I would not necessarily pick the person who shadowed for 60hrs over someone who did 16hrs...

  13. Any advice to become a stronger candidate for CRNA school?

    manusko replied to bestclassever's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    It's usually required at many schools. There are online chem classes. They are

  14. Should I get the DNP?

    manusko replied to ktc328's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

  15. Any advice to become a stronger candidate for CRNA school?

    manusko replied to bestclassever's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Did you ever retake chem and get a B or higher? Some schools require a decent chem

  16. The Night The Fire Died

    manusko replied to The_Optimist's topic in General Nursing

    The nurse who says nothing allows their patient to be in harms way. Never question an order and eventually you will allow great harm to

  17. RN to CRNA - which road?

    manusko replied to TheBlackDogWaits's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

  18. CRNA school loans (for a guy like me)

    manusko replied to mattcbr's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    After. We graduated in May. Yes you have to justify but all we had to go was put our expenses on a excel spread sheet and it was

  19. If you had it to do over again.....

    manusko replied to RN_Chris's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Except for paying cash for college, unless you want to wait 15

  20. CRNA school loans (for a guy like me)

    manusko replied to mattcbr's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Also forgot to mention that you need to be careful with those loans because not everyone finishes school or passes

  21. CRNA school loans (for a guy like me)

    manusko replied to mattcbr's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    There are private loans as well. Many of my classmates took out way more than they needed to get by on. My tuition total was around 52k and one classmate had 220k in

  22. Is this job (nurse anesthetist) really as good as Im reading or no?

    manusko replied to Zagnonian's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

  23. "Real" Job Outlook/Status of New Grad CRNA's

    manusko replied to ArrowRN's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Everyone in my class found a job. Just have to be willing to relocate. There was one position in our city and 6 people wanted it. So 5 of them ended up

  24. What if.....your Director has falsified his credentials?

    manusko replied to miserere's topic in Critical Care

  25. dosage calculation

    manusko replied to katrinad's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I would concentrate on the short list. The last time I measured in scruples was......oh wait I never