EtherFever

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1. Raleigh School

   EtherFever replied to acorn82's topic in SRNA

   While I am an SRNA, I am not in the Raleigh program... I go to a neighboring school. But many of my friends/former co-workers are in the Raleigh program and they love it. However, they have told me it is a pretty steep learning curve in the beginning...

2. Personality traits of CRNAs?

   EtherFever replied to icuRNmia's topic in CRNA

   1. Desire to learn & maximize potential 2. Adaptive & quick to learn & apply (mechanically inclined, tactile learner etc.) 3. Humble & willing to accept criticism (Thick skin) 4. Organized, type A, OCD 5. Ability to prioritize Current...

3. Front-loaded vs. Integrated--PROS and CONS

   EtherFever replied to OscarRN's topic in SRNA

   My program is somewhat in between. First semester is all didactic with 2 weeks of OR shadowing near the end. Then starting second semester its 2 days a week of clinical. From there on out the number of clinical days increases while classes decrease. ...

4. Chance of Acceptance?

   EtherFever replied to AlphaAgonist's topic in SRNA

   It depends on the school. Just ask the program director. I do know, that my program weighed pretty heavily on the math portion of the GRE.

5. Fevers In CCU

   EtherFever replied to Nursingbride12's topic in CCU

   I'm a little surprised that ID doc said it like that. I'd understand letting a patient have a slight fever, but your patient's hemodynamics are priority. Fever & sepsis causes increased metabolic demand, and eventually cause other hemodynamic cha...

6. New Grad. Want to work in the ICU

   EtherFever replied to msubtt's topic in Critical

   As an ICU preceptor, I do recommend starting out somewhere other than the ICU. The learning curve is super steep, and in addition to learning how to be a nurse, you are having to also cram in tons of other learning i.e. hemodynamics, vasoactive meds,...

7. Lawyer considering nursing

   EtherFever replied to legaleagle30's topic in SRNA

   I'll be starting CRNA school in 3 weeks, and the road to get there is not easy. It can be fairly difficult for new grads to get into an ICU right out of school, most ICU's prefer RN's with experience. As a preceptor who has precepted many nurses in t...

8. IABP Mean Greater than Systolic?

   EtherFever replied to EtherFever's topic in CCU

   Awesome thanks for that info, we weren't sure if the balloon actually counted the augmented pressure in it's mean calculation. As far as this particular pt, you're right, no need for the balloon with ecmo, but it was placed before they crashed this p...

9. Why do Critical Care nurses look down their noses at Med-Surg nurses?

   EtherFever replied to marisatheresa's topic in Critical

   I'm not looking down at floor nurses, nor am I calling them glorified waiters. I'm simply making a comparision that some days as a floor nurse, I felt like one ex. having a busy day r/t to the multitude of small and insignificant things that patients...

10. IABP Mean Greater than Systolic?

    EtherFever posted a topic in CCU

    Hey all, A question for people who are familiar with IABP. The other day, we had a patient on ECMO with a balloon, and the MAP on the balloon was reading higher than the systolic pressure on the balloon. Something like 67/47, mean was 74, Aug 100. We...

11. Why do Critical Care nurses look down their noses at Med-Surg nurses?

    EtherFever replied to marisatheresa's topic in Critical

    Craymond +1. As an icu nurse, and a former stepdown nurse, I will say that floor nursing is not easy. But it's on a whole different level of hard when compared to "hard" in the icu. In the ICU, the bar is set high as far as nursing expectations, crit...

12. CRNA School

    EtherFever replied to anm1's topic in SRNA

    ^spot on above. Work on getting good quality ICU exp, i.e. sickest of the sick type patients. Additionally, you could consider taking graduate level classes to show schools you are able to handle a grad level course. A couple of my classmates did thi...

13. Reaction to when things go wrong: comes in time, or a sign to avoid?

    EtherFever replied to milian7's topic in CRNA

    Yup, if you still have 2 years until you start you will be fine. It comes with time and exp. I had similar reactions when I was getting ready to apply, by the time I got my app in I was feeling comfortable, and that last year after I got accepted mad...

14. My plan, and my journey to CRNA school. Insight, perspective, advice, preparation.

    EtherFever replied to SIguy_RN's topic in CRNA

    Hey SIguy, It's great to see potential applicants who do heed alot of advice on the board about really gaining the experience and having great reasons to want to be a CRNA. All too often, I hear newer co-workers and posters on here, about "the bare m...

15. CCRN needed for SRNA?

    EtherFever replied to ShoogleBear's topic in SRNA

    FYI, I interviewed and accepted a few months ago. Out of 15 in my interview group, 14 had their CCRN. About 10 came with 2-5 years of ICU exp from larger level 1/academic hospitals. I think there are 4 or 5 of us in our class from my interview group....