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  1. Georgia

    From near Dublin, south of Macon. Senior SRNA at UTC - Erlanger in Chattanooga right now. Something we southerners can help you
  2. One of our facility's outlying centers just purchased a GlideScope intubation device. It looks like a Mac 3.5 on steriods with a video feed that allows you to see the intubation field on a monitor. I...
  3. Hey, whaddya know? This guy is a trolly, trolly,
  4. Ours is in color..Pretty kewl display of anatomy. :) The only problem I forsee is others thinking once again what we do is easy. Yes, it is fun to group around your co-workers and rag them when using...
  5. you are talking out of your
  6. And I yours....I see that you have trolled yourself right over here and obviously go to bat for the MD team. That's fine. What you need to realize is that you either don't know not a whole lot about...
  7. Ventilate before norcuron always, unless my anesthesiologist goes down the line pushing all syringes at once. You know how it is, some prefer to push their own drugs and you just have to let them be...
  8. Living While in CRNA School

    Take the max on federal school loans - $18,500 a year. My in-state friends got a refund this semester for $6,100. Due to being out of state, I got $3,300. I paid some for this previous summer, they...
  9. Living While in CRNA School

    If you apply for a loan, say through Sallie Mae and still have a job with verifiable income, then this org will loan you about 40K if you want it. Try and apply for a loan after you have quit your job...
  10. Living While in CRNA School

    Ain't one near me, unfortunately. Atlanta is too far to drive. No such stigma exists on my
  11. Living While in CRNA School

    If you are at a large enough city to support a nursing program, there should be a plasma donation center near you. Type "plasma donation center" and your town in for Yahoo! search and see what comes...
  12. Living While in CRNA School

    Single, out-of-state student here with 10 months to go before graduation. made it through the first year with leftovers from Federal Loans, cashing in my retirement (not the best idea) and taking out...
  13. How very true. I am kicking my posterior for going to a program like this. You have no idea of the BS classes and then thesis, just for our "nursing" personnel to stay "published", riding your...
  14. Clinical Topics

    I don't know, the preqs are so different for NP vs CRNA that most people will come to the CRNA forum anyway. So you figure he won't go for a pre-CRNA (which 99% of these postings are anyway), do you...
  15. opinions

    Agreed. Ever hear an orthopod cry about a certain instrument not being available on "his" tray and then the OR staff opens another sterile instrument tray just to obtain this one tool? That one tray...
  16. Clinical Topics

    I tried to get this clinical ball rolling a while back and no one took bait. I look forward to this new
  17. Designated SRNA here. I just tell them I am "one of the nurses with anesthesia and I will be with you in the OR, make sure you are comfortable, blah, blah". No questions, no raised eyebrows, ever. Our...
  18. This has been discussed at least two times previously. Here is one link: https://allnurses.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63698 My response #24 on the above link has another link to the same question....
  19. I agree. I was upfront with my manager when she asked the "Where do you see yourself in 5 years" question. What she got was a nurse that busted his hump to learn everything possible, perhaps offended...
  20. No sweat taidan. And nurses as a whole usually aren't bad either. Exceptions are certainly on both sides and we both unfortunately run into these people on a daily basis. I worked in ER as a tech...
  21. Said more eloquently than I could have. Due to the cost of training a new grad and time involved with classes and preceptor, most ICUs and smart nurse managers will require signing a contract. Mine...
  22. Correct me if I am wrong, but I never alluded to the fact that these figures were base salary. All I said was CRNAs can make that much money and your statement above just validated my
  23. Hey JWK, clean out your mailbox. Can't send you a PM because you sequester all the old
  24. It is all in your choice of work. These figures are for a new grad first-year out friend of mine working in north georgia under ATC
  25. Certainly a valid set of questions, but do you have any idea what $200K + for a year's salary is and what that allows you to do, what that allows you to do for your family and extended family? What is...