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Out of curiosity, what kind of patients are seen in Neuro ICU? Most common diagnosis?

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surely there are multiple factors in play here. If it was strictly same job - same outcomes - same pay, then we wouldn't see ACT practices today skewed towards MDA>CRNA income. The only place I see this actually happening is in the CRNA independen...

I understand why a MDA gets paid more than a CRNA even for the same job with the same outcomes across the board. I believe MDAs have different experiences and thus bring different views into practice as do CRNAs that MDAs don't, which both views are ...

Hey fellow classmates :) Everyone should join the "Midwestern University Nurse Anesthesia Class of 2018" facebook page so we all have a place to congregate before classes start! There's only about 9 of us currently in the group. Looking forward to ge...

Honestly man the last thing on your mind should be 'looking sexy' for your nursing shift. Saying that find out if your hospital allows or doesn't reinforce rules about wearing T-shirts as tops. I wear these nice slim-fitting t shirts from Express and...

I work in an ICU where all the men have some sort of beard and we wear the papr respirator with TB patients - NBD. Also if your institution can't provide a papr in a timely manner before you are assigned the PT you can legally refuse to care for that...

I know a nurse with gen med experience in orientation on a VERY busy neurosurgical ICU who has no ICU experience acting as a know-it-all who is facing termination because of it. It's a very dangerous mindset.

Glucose 1440: Alive and oriented

You did the right thing, everyone makes mistakes.

What you SHOULD have done was requesting a STAT chest xray and worry about his pneumo getting larger or maybe an ABG to see if he was retaining CO2? SpO2 and pCO2 do not have an inverse relationship... He could have been progressing into a tension pn...

You realize it's quite difficult to get HIV from even a needle stick let alone having if be splashed on you. I wouldn't worry about it one bit.

I'm kind of at a loss for words. Indwelling TpA and infusing TpA and completely different therapies as mentioned above. if the clot is INSIDE of the port then there would be no facial swelling and would require indwelling TpA which is anywhere from 3...

Well if she had itchy eyes and a puffy face obviously it could be a sign of an allergic reaction in which you are right to suggest benedryl because it shows your thought process and what you're worried about. I work in a neurosurgical ICU and I sugg...

Show me the proof.

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I believe a lot of people are misunderstood in this forum about the role of the CRNA and what the future holds. I believe it is a state by state basis, but there are CRNA independent groups to where they do 100% of the anesthesia under no medical dir...

Does MSA have CRNA independent rotations at all? I know a lot of schools out there are starting to incorporate CRNA indy sites to teach students how to be independent providers which would include pre-op and post-op management as well as the intra-op...

:) Welcome! You will learn tons during your orientation. Im about half way done with my MICU orientation after working in a trauma level 1 ER for 1.5 years and I'm still learning new and exciting things everyday. If you start to feel overwhelmed just...

Saw proning the first time last week. Make sure you have respiratory to secure the airway and do a good ol' log roll. It was amazing to see how much the patient responded to the new position.

I have my BSN and associates in science. I did an organic chem class during my associates, do CRNA schools accept organic chem that's from 2 year school? Also, is there a time frame in which I would have to take the class again or not? Thanks.

Out of curiosity, what kind of patients are seen in MICU? Most common diagnosis?

Whats the PVT trick?

Well im not blind and I don't see it.

For me, I went to a community college to complete my 2 years and then i transfered to a university and I am now studying nursing. In my community college A&P 1 had about 40 students in the class and out of those 40 I want to say around 20-25 of t...