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apaisRN RN, CRNA

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  1. After graduation present.......

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

    It's funny, I have most of what I want now. Maybe a trip or something, we love to travel. All I really want for graduation (in 2007, hopefully) is my

  2. Can someone tell what these drugs do?

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

    I understand paralysis as the inability to move from any cause. I understand "relaxant" as something that relieves tension or spasms, etc. This is all semantics, we can agree to disagree. I just...

  3. Are small jokes accepted?

    apaisRN replied to brazuca's topic in General Nursing

    When I'm discharging a patient home, I usually joke about the "free waxing" they receive when I pull off the tape on the IV - especially if it's a hairy male. Note that these patients are generally in...

  4. Can someone tell what these drugs do?

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

    Interesting to describe a paralytic as a "muscle relaxant." If I were a member of the lay public I'd like a little more fact and a little less glossing

  5. Georgetown Class of 2007

    apaisRN replied to tumpler44's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Things have changed since February - now I'm moving across the country and going to Samuel Merritt. Excited and terrified in equal measures. Yay for the class of

  6. Successful CRNA students consider listing your school, GPA, experience, GRE et.

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

    I believe the requirement is 1800 hours. I actually sent out apps in Aug/Sept and sat for the CCRN in December. At that point I had already interviewed at UNE but not received a decision. I heard of...

  7. Anyone heard from Duke, yet?

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

    This seems really late for admissions decisions, when do classes

  8. Successful CRNA students consider listing your school, GPA, experience, GRE et.

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

    Undergrad GPA: 3.4 GREs: 1410, 5.5 writing CCRN, ACLS, PALS - Was taking a graduate pathophys course while interviewing - I got an A but obviously the schools didn't know that when they accepted me -...

  9. Do you have any anesthesia helpers?

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

    Why were you proning a healthy young guy? That story is hilarious although I suspect you didn't feel that way when the housekeeper told you how to do your job! I am working as a camp nurse this...

  10. CRNA boards

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

    Isn't it amazing that they can distill 2.5 years of blood, sweat and tears into 90

  11. Should I Move in With Parents???

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

    I wouldn't be able to live with my mom for that long without killing her, but if you get along it probably sounds like the best solution. We're renting our house while we move for me to go to school....

  12. SRNA wife about to loose it......

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

    I don't have kids but I can certainly see that the original poster's routine sounds like hell on wheels. I think it's quite thoughtless and ignorant to say that since she only works 8 (night) shifts a...

  13. Did you live off of student loans while in school?

    apaisRN replied to wannabenursetx's topic in General Nursing

    Wow. I don't think there is anything I'd want enough to sleep in my car. In order to be successful in school I feel like I need my warm, pleasant bed with clean sheets as well as a lot of other...

  14. SICU or CVICU?

    apaisRN replied to kiki9095's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Sounds like you can't go wrong. Either way it's a busy ICU with very sick patients. What do you think you'll like

  15. A little distressed, accused of stealing....

    apaisRN replied to gwlillith's topic in General Nursing

    It's a freakin' plant! I can't believe anyone considers it worthwhile to hunt down the offender. Don't they have patients to take care

  16. How hard is it to get in?

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

    I was asking the same questons 10 months ago, but really, there are no clear-cut answers. You have no idea how "hard" it will be for YOU until you send in those apps and show up all nervous in your...

  17. Best PDA for new SRNA student

    apaisRN replied to suzanne4's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    My last shift was 6/1. Hubby and I just got back from a week in Curacao, probably our last vacation for a while. It sure felt good to walk out that door for the last time, huh? And then I started to...

  18. Which schools are "hard" to get into

    apaisRN replied to blee1's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I haven't started school yet and I'm surprised they accepted me too! Not trying to discount what you say - but it underestimating yourself tends to be a female

  19. Change ... I could've just cried today ....

    apaisRN replied to OntCaRPN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Huh? I thought primary nursing meant that the nurse did most of the care for her own patients. Team nursing is when you have an RN/LPN/CNA team carrying an assignment together. Task-oriented nursing...

  20. Any nurses married to a nurse ?

    apaisRN replied to Kitty-MayRN's topic in General Nursing

    Mu husband is an architect, and he doesn't like hearing too many medical details. No poop, blood, or especially pee. That part is kind of funny - his dad and brother are urologists. I think that's why...

  21. Accused of Racism!

    apaisRN replied to yaddadoit's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    It is a little funny, even. Not that the OP is accused of racism, but the complaint. If the CNA is black, well, then any way you treat her is treating her like a black person! It's just such a dumb...

  22. Nurses Who Shouldn't be Nurses

    apaisRN replied to bobnurse's topic in General Nursing

    The average person on the street wouldn't do what I do for any amount of money. The intimacy with illness, death and the human body is way too much. I have a job with a great deal of required...

  23. Deflating Moment for a Soon to be New Grad

    apaisRN replied to Headhurt's topic in General Nursing

    I don't find it much grosser than what we do, and as someone says, we do mouth care too. In fact my patients are often vented, confused and quite uncooperative with mouth care. But boring and...

  24. Which schools are "hard" to get into

    apaisRN replied to blee1's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I know that there are such competitiveness rankings for undergrad admissions and probably for programs like law and medicine. CRNA is different because there are relatively few programs and most take...

  25. To CRNA/SRNA's who were 1st NICU nurses

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

    The thing about NICU is that you can turn your head for a minute and they're down the tubes. They are SO fragile and volatile, and if you were to make a drug error you could kill one easy (possible...