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In school I was always told how important nursing theory is in guiding nursing practice and improving care. Both in undergraduate and graduate school my teachers ridiculed PAs for not having a theory that guides their practice. Are there any nurses...

Yes. There are all CRNA practices. Anesthesiologists are not required. All CRNA practices make ALOT more money because of no profit sharing with third parties. You can also own your iwn staffing agency. I know a few people who make a living staffing ...

Depends on your career goals. Working in informatics does not require certification. It can add to your resume though. If you want a management position then you will need a masters degree. Employers are more impressed by your personal work history ...

Are they in their early 20's? I teach undergraduate nursing, and I am shocked at the general attitude that they should be given good grades for showing up, and that they generally ignore all constructive criticism. If your not telling them they are g...

You could possibly keep your NP license if you can claim your informatics role includes NP issues. It is possible to be 100% administrative and still be a practitioner/anesthetist/etc. Just remember you will lose actual skills and it is not appropria...

What is posted by the AANA is very accurate. New grad pay ranges 90 to 120000, depending on market saturation. Top out pay is 180000. Independent practice can take you to 250000. But that is an all crna practice with ALOT of hours.

I can attest that you can work part time in anesthesia and make 6 figures. Its a great job with great perks. I would make 180,000 full time. It should be about what you enjoy. If pay gets cut, it will be across the board . You will still make 2-3 tim...

A starting salary of 120,000 is really good. the top is probably close to 160,0000. Starting salary is still 2 to 3 times a RN. I think all healthcare salaries will go down because of obamacare. i have lost a lot of benefits as a direct result if cha...

Nursing has many areas you can move into if you do not like one area. Informatics does not absolutely require clinical experience, though I find there are fewer open positions for it (in my experience). I would encourage you to check out programs. Al...

Where I work patients are told, by the anesthesiologist, it is a CRNA doing the anesthetic. The MD gets paid less for doing a single case. If they supervise they get the equivalent of twice the amount of a single anesthetic. Patients are not given th...

Crna school is the hardest thing I have ever done, and I am a Phd student now. The training is very stressful, just know it gets easier, especially when you can choose where to work. Stick with it, and know it will pass. I hard a very hard time adj...

Interesting article, but there are way to many potentially confounding variables that cant be controlled for statistically. The design they used can not prove cause and effect, only association. The 1.5% mortality would not be surprising at a level o...

It is about power and money, even though physicians claim patient safety concerns. Where I work it has been so long since anesthesiologists actually gave anesthesia by themselves that it is no longer safe for them to practice independently, we actual...

Find a school offering a DNP who also offer a MSN in informatics, they will have the resources. Informatics is clinical nursing, a phd is for research. Informatics specialists are clinicians who have a strong technological aspect . It is still nursin...

Purposive sampling is very similar to convenience sampling. The main difference is that the researcher picks participants based on the researchers judgement that the participant has the desired qualities. You can do posters and recruit "in person". T...

I started CRNA at 24, but age ranges were 24 to 52 in my class.

Two completely different paths. The only benefit to both are if you wanted two different jobs. Also, DNP is a degree name that CRNAs can have too. It just stands for doctor of nursing practice. You should shadow both.

There are not many dual doctoral programs like that. I did the DNP because I was not completely sure I would like research. I did, and am doing a Phd. I would think that it is a path suited to a minority of students. DNP skills are a subset of what ...

The DNP does not teach education either. There are nursing education degrees and certificates. But neither the DNP or Phd includes courses on teaching. Some universities view the DNP as a subset of skills learned in the Phd, they call it Phd-lite. T...

I am biased, but I would say CRNA because AAs have a more limited scope of practice and are not employed everywhere. If you ever wanted to move you would be stuck to states with AAs. Also, you will be at the mercy of an MD for pay and scheduling, sin...

I can say from personal experience that my program used us as staff, and that our cases were determined by staffing needs and not my education. My program was owned solely by physicians in the 1970's. The MSN requirement in the late 1990's shifted of...

Current CRNAs dont have to get a DNP. And it will be a few years before new ones HAVE to get one. Currently, some programs offer it as an option.

The purpose of nursing informatics is to assist nurses in using information to provide nursing care (facilitating the use of data to create wisdom). A IT department can create software programs and implement technology into clinical settings, but fai...

You can be a specialist in a field without clinical work, unless you claim your specialty is clinical practice. Your expertise is your research focus, which is often based in theory development and testing--not practice. For example, if you study psy...

Many traditional school offer online degrees (fully online). When choosing a school you need to consider your career goals. Most of the time no one will know where you got your degree (as long as they are accredited and allow you to take the appropri...