apaisRN

apaisRN RN, CRNA

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  1. December graduates

    apaisRN replied to NCgirl's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I'm green with envy! Also very very impressed. Well done to all who are finished or nearly so, and may your post-school lives be all that you've dreamed

  2. Cutting Balloon cuffs

    apaisRN replied to jewelcutt's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I love it! I don't really understand putting them in bulls and horses, but for dogs with, ah, MANLY owners this could be perfect. Unless you end up with three, of course. That would probably damage...

  3. Cutting Balloon cuffs

    apaisRN replied to jewelcutt's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Yow! My husband's dad is a urologist but I'd be too embarrassed to ask him if he ever did this. totally off topic - I forget who I heard this from, but apparently they now make fake testes for dogs...

  4. Minority SRNA/CRNA's

    apaisRN replied to srnabound3997's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    My class of 25ish has two students of Asian ancestry, one black, and at least three Hispanic. Our director is female and minority. Probably minorities are still underrepresented with those numbers,...

  5. Cutting Balloon cuffs

    apaisRN replied to jewelcutt's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    uh . . . WHAT exactly did the urologist

  6. Question re Post-Op Amnesia

    apaisRN replied to Homesick Gypsy's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Emotional stress is hell on your memory, too. I hardly remember any of my wedding. The combo of anesthesia, pain, narcotics, physical and mental stress might have been enough to scramble your...

  7. I am an Alternate at New Britain...

    apaisRN replied to BeatOU's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I got in to my preferred school as an alternate - depending on how long the list is, your odds can be pretty good. Even if not, you can strengthen your application for next year knowing that you're a...

  8. I'd Love to be a CRNA but...

    apaisRN replied to 30andconfused's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    That's not a little thing! Not many civilians could deal with what unit nurses do. Between the grossness, crazy families and patients dying all the time - it's a tough job. Which is the point, for...

  9. Waiting for result of interview, Can't be relaxed.

    apaisRN replied to jin00005's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    The waiting is definitely tough, although I'd say my pre-interview anxiety was the worst. I waited about two months for the first reply. My only advice is to put it in a box in your mind and lock the...

  10. Md's Against Crna's?

    apaisRN replied to LLL123's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Crystle-clear, you are wrong in some of your assumptions and I continue to disagree with you, but this thread is moving toward getting locked so I'll let it go. Good luck in your nursing

  11. So, why do you want to be a CRNA?

    apaisRN replied to RNNJ's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    It's hard to verbalize this kind of thing sometimes. I STILL don't think I can tell you why I wanted to be a nurse. I can tell you why I wanted to be a CRNA though. The admission process demanded that...

  12. Md's Against Crna's?

    apaisRN replied to LLL123's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    To safely administer and monitor medications, an RN has to know a great deal about many, many drugs. She/he has to grasp the pathophysiology and consider how each drug may affect the patient's disease...

  13. What to wear (for women)?

    apaisRN replied to RNNJ's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I had a black skirt suit from J. Crew, a coral-colored blouse and pointy black shoes. One of those super-plain, boxy Kate Spade bags. One of the first-year students told me she didn't realize I was an...

  14. Question re Post-Op Amnesia

    apaisRN replied to Homesick Gypsy's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Giving you a med and not telling you (when you were still awake) isn't kosher. It IS demeaning, and also very frightening for the patient. If that was what happened, you might try to talk to him and...

  15. I'm in!!! Thank you

    apaisRN replied to sandman1914's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Congratulations! It's such a great feeling, the day you get accepted. Rivalled only, I hope, by the day you graduate. :chuckle: Well done and best of

  16. u of new england

    apaisRN replied to dfk's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I wanted to go somewhere warmer. Also the way their rotations are structured, I would almost certainly be away from my husband for an extended period. I think it's 10 months.This is hard enough...

  17. u of new england

    apaisRN replied to dfk's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I got one of those last year. I think it means that your application is complete and you meet basic admissions criteria (experience, bachelor's degree etc.) Next comes an interview if you are lucky. I...

  18. Adult ICU --> camp nurse?

    apaisRN posted a topic in Camp

    I've been an RN for three years, two in adult medical/cardiac ICU. I got my CCRN in adult critical care last fall. I've been accepted to CRNA school (YAY!) and am thinking I'd love to be a camp nurse...

  19. The AANA, the ASA, and the SDN

    apaisRN replied to kmchugh's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Intuition? I can tell you're not a nurse. Nurses used evidence-based practice. You know, interventions based on research. CRNAs to an even greater degree. Lots of things in life are counterintuitive....

  20. The AANA, the ASA, and the SDN

    apaisRN replied to kmchugh's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Can you show us some studies that show evidence that anesthesia care is safer with an MD than a CRNA? If you can't, what you've said is just opinion. (sorry guys, I just had to say

  21. Intrathecal anesthesia in Von Willebrand patient

    apaisRN replied to SchiwartRN's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    How is that happening? Don't the nurses ask someone, or do they just guess at what the technique will be? Part of nursing is education, they shouldn't be giving patients unverified

  22. RRNA or SRNA for title, What is your opinion?

    apaisRN replied to TexasCCRN's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Wow, ether, that's a nasty TV show. I don't watch TV (well, once in a blue moon) and I miss this kind of cultural reference, and that patients are remembering scenes like that when I deal with them....

  23. SRNA's Did you do a clinical with a CRNA?

    apaisRN replied to ivypetals's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    True, athomas. Also it will not buy you popularity among your classmates and teachers to sound like a know-it-all. Tell people you have a great understanding of the CRNA role from all that exposure,...

  24. RRNA or SRNA for title, What is your opinion?

    apaisRN replied to TexasCCRN's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    The word "student" is a potent inducer of catecholamine release in a preop patient! I'm not the third-year 20-y-o nursing student who is going to help an LOL to the bathroom. I'm going to be keeping...

  25. info needed from current crna's, please....Is it boring????

    apaisRN replied to tamm1's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    What kind of nurses have you been talking to? Not CRNAs, I