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  1. CRNA vs AA

    jwk replied to grifftith's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Correct. The point I was trying to make to neurogeek (doesn't matter if I'm AA or CRNA or MD) is that recruiters don't make good sense. Because I'm the chief anesthetist in my group, I'm involved in...

  2. CRNA vs AA

    jwk replied to grifftith's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    There's a difference between using recruiters and using Gaswork. You're starting to confuse the two. Gaswork is an OK resource, but many employers simply don't use it. It does give hints as to what...

  3. CRNA vs AA

    jwk replied to grifftith's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    You don't know what jobs some of these AA students had prior to school, nor have you "endured" a BS program in the hard sciences (organic, physics, biochem, etc.) And there are TONS of CRNA's with...

  4. CRNA vs AA

    jwk replied to grifftith's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    You must be a recruiter, or somehow your perspective has really been skewed somewhere along the way - almost universally, the CRNA's on this particular board have stressed not using recruiters. There...

  5. CRNA vs AA

    jwk replied to grifftith's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Gaswork is a site full of advertisements for anesthesia groups, hospitals, etc. Call them what you will - they're ads. Gaswork, while an interesting resource, is hardly the be-all and end-all of...

  6. CRNA vs AA

    jwk replied to grifftith's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Yes, much of rural anesthesia care is provided by CRNA's, but far and away the majority of cases are done in larger facilities where MD's are involved. Gaswork is hardly representative of the country...

  7. EBP re Soda Laim

    jwk replied to copycake's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    How long are you keeping it out unused? If you go weeks at a time without using a machine, I wouldn't put any in until you're ready to use it. Our practice is to change one of the two canisters every...

  8. CRNA vs AA

    jwk replied to grifftith's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    17 states and counting for AA's - multiple job offers to each new grad - not a bad deal. And the "anywhere you go....CRNA's....no respect" quickly goes by the wayside once they see that the...

  9. How Breast Surgery Killed A Florida Teen

    jwk replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Wow - n=8. No wait, n=5, because RN's giving versed in an office is NOT anesthesia. So by your own poorly designed and completed study, 20% of office anesthesia is administered by an...

  10. How Breast Surgery Killed A Florida Teen

    jwk replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    unfortunate that you choose an article from a surgeon as your source, as well as including quotes from an anesthesiologist whose main purpose in life is to beat his own drum about "his" anesthesia...

  11. Male OR Nurse

    jwk replied to ib4au's topic in Operating Room

    Would you agree men deserve that same

  12. Male OR Nurse

    jwk replied to ib4au's topic in Operating Room

    Total sexist crap on your hospital's part. If they grant requests from female patients to have no males in the room, then they should also grant requests from males to have no females in the room....

  13. Child Restraint During Induction ?

    jwk replied to OR male nurse's topic in Operating Room

    You need to read my earlier post or read it again if you read it before. You're thinking that it's better for the child having the parents there. It's not. Parents are understandably stressed about...

  14. Child Restraint During Induction ?

    jwk replied to OR male nurse's topic in Operating Room

    Which is the exact reason they shouldn't be

  15. Child Restraint During Induction ?

    jwk replied to OR male nurse's topic in Operating Room

    Easiest way is to have them lean sideways over the child, with their waist essentially surrounded by the side of your body, axilla, and arm. Doing that, you can easily hold their hands/wrists at the...

  16. Bair Huggers

    jwk replied to SandraCVRN's topic in Operating Room

    You're right - you don't know what it is - the company is referring to the practice called "hosing", which is tucking the hose in by the patient instead of using it with the blanket as intended. All...

  17. Child Restraint During Induction ?

    jwk replied to OR male nurse's topic in Operating Room

    Here's the way it ought to go... Step 1 - sedation - unless there is some reason not to give it, kids get liquid PO versed 20-30 minutes or so prior to the procedure (10 minutes is not long enough for...

  18. femoral block or epidural TKR

    jwk replied to stanman1968's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    We just do so many darn epidurals - it's what we're used to, and change is sometimes slow in coming. It takes 5 min just to play around with the US

  19. femoral block or epidural TKR

    jwk replied to stanman1968's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    We seem to be moving decidedly towards the blocks and away from epidurals, although for us they actually take longer to place because we do so many

  20. Using same syringes all day

    jwk replied to stevierae's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    What would you suggest besides getting rid of them? Several of the CRNA's in Las Vegas have already surrendered their licenses - rumor is that the AANA has the capability to revoke their...

  21. The Future: You Must have a Masters to Apply to a Nurse Anesthesia Program??!!

    jwk replied to papmar's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Well put

  22. The Future: You Must have a Masters to Apply to a Nurse Anesthesia Program??!!

    jwk replied to papmar's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I can't believe the CRNA's on this website can't answer questions about their own profession. There are still thousands of CRNA's in practice with NO DEGREE!!!!! They get grandfathered in as...

  23. The Future: You Must have a Masters to Apply to a Nurse Anesthesia Program??!!

    jwk replied to papmar's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Why would it be safer, and why would the pay go

  24. Scope of Practice

    jwk replied to paindoc's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    And somehow you're missing the message that pain management is NOT the same as "administering

  25. The Future: You Must have a Masters to Apply to a Nurse Anesthesia Program??!!

    jwk replied to papmar's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I think you need to learn some facts from a source besides