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Obviously. I was giving an example of how a faciliety could allow nurses to better use their time. Wow you give up easy. Of course charting must be done. The amount of time a nurse spends doing it is entirely up to the managment of the faciliety, L...

You are not understanding what you are being told. There is no requirment for APNs to have a DNP. There is no proposal to make a DNP required for APNs. It isn't really possible for 50 states to mandate such a requirement by 2015 and I haven't even he...

I understand. However the answer is not to have CNAs doing nurses work for which they are not trained. The answer is to streamline nurses charting, eliminating double charting and meaningless "boiler plate" charting and to increase the nurse staff ra...

There is no reason you would have to get a doctorate at any point unless your goal is to teach at a university. For practicing CRNAs the masters will be all thats needed. I don't plan on getting a doctorate and if I did it sure as heck would no...

I think only a minority of CRNA school are through nursing schools. Last time I looked was before I went to school but if I remeber right only about 30% were based out of schools of nursing. There are 5 programs in my area four in MN and one in WI an...

Mine was 27 months and contained plenty of make work fluff. Well I got 4 days and then was on my own with no other anesthesia provider in the hospital or available on call. No problem at all. I was well prepared by my program. It helped that I had t...

When you say "offering a DNP" does that mean it's an option? The one DNP CRNA program I am familiar with (University of Minnesota) didn't add any clinical or clinicaly related classes when it changed to a 36 month DNP. The students actually do the DN...

Yes exactly. Put the CNAs bach to doing what they have been trained to do and hire more nurses for doing nurses work. I realize doing so would cut into profits and thus unlikely to happen.

Wow! 82 credit hours? My program was 64 credits and could have easily been 45-60. Yours must have been packed full of even more fluff than is standard. I would MUCH rather seen CRNA programs move in the direction of 24 month program and cut out ...

I think many will be DNAP and not DNP as I mentioned in my previous post.

Not quite true. There is no requirment at all for anyone to get a DNP by 2015 or any other date. The DNP for NPs is only a recomendation by the AACN, not a requirment. CRNAs will be required to get a doctorate (not DNP in most cases) by 2025. I quest...

Not me! I practice completly autonomously, my program was only 27 months long and about $40K, no residency required, and I make more than two thirds of the physicians in the hospital's group practice. Plus I get 2 weeks out of every 6 off. None of th...

Only nurses (and in limited circumstanced physicians), LPNs & RNs should be passing meds period.

I have 2 buddies I used to work with in the ICU who went to medical school (both D.O. programs). One is happy as a clam he did it (family practice) and the other one very much regrets it. (still a surgical resident) and wishes he had gone to anesthes...

As several others have pointed out the answer is no. The exception is for CRNAs need to have a doctorate (not necessarily a DNP since so many CRNA programs can't grant nursing degrees) by 2025. Personaly I have doubts that it will ocme to pass even f...

When I was a ICU and ER staff nurse I had to take verbal and phone orders all the time. A number of times a physician denied giving an order. It was never a problem for me. I never experienced anyone doubting that the order had been given if I said i...

I am sure it will happen. Seems abserd to me. My program was 27 months and contained plenty of make work fluff. I have a hard time believing the 36 months is needed for competent and safe delivery of anesthesia by CRNAs.

It can be a bad thing. We advanced pracactice nurses are supposed to be cost effective providers of health care. Among the things that makes us cost effective is the low cost of training an advanced practice nurse vs the cost of training a physican. ...

,Fairly strait forward. Fill out the online application, attach your e-resume and write a cover letter. I interviewed with the nurse manager of the SICU over spring break of my lst semester of nursing school and was offered a position the next day on...

Ya this has happend to me a number of times. However I have never viewed it as MY problem. It's managment's (nursing and physician) problem. Obviously you wrote the order as "T.O Dr.Liesaboutorders". The last time my nurse manager called me about an ...

*** I graduated form the Critical Care Nurse Residency program at St.Joseph's in Marshfield and worked in SICU (also CCU and PICU and ER) for 5 years. What do you want to know?

Almost 4 weeks and you are already off orientation? Sounds like you have been thrown to the wolves. Of course you feel overwhelmed. Since nursing school has little to do with the real world of nursing it is not suprising that those who do well in sch...

Ya no way am I going to take part in this biased poll.

Some programs, usully those based in big university schools of nursing require a BSN. Other schools don't. As I mentioned I have known people to get accepted to CRNA school with a wide variety of degrees. Certainly any degree in a hard science seems ...