wtbcrna MSN, DNP, CRNA

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    FTC Paper: State Legislators Should Carefully Evaluate Proposals to Limit APNs

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

    Okay, how do AAs help bring costs down? How do AAs help provide an alternative to ACT or MDA only practices? What AA school or accreditation agency requires AAs to learn regional or CVLs? Who were...
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    CRNA Schools No Experience Required

    wtbcrna replied to utahskiier's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    No, I didn't state that on this thread anywhere that I could find. It is a possibility to apply before having one year of critical care experience with the understanding that you gain the needed...
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    CRNA Schools No Experience Required

    wtbcrna replied to utahskiier's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    There are no CRNA schools that do not require 1 year of critical care experience (recently changed from acute care experience). It is a requirement from the Council of Accreditation of Nurse...
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    FTC Paper: State Legislators Should Carefully Evaluate Proposals to Limit APNs

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

    The sole purpose of this thread was to discuss the FTC paper on APN practice. But the sole purpose of AAs is to give the ASA leverage over CRNAs and to further control and try to monopolize the...
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    Florida Proposal PCB 14-01 Thoughts?

    wtbcrna replied to WhiffOfGas's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    It is hard to figure out what the author of the original article was talking about since he provided no references which isn't unusual for ASA statements. The ASA just often assumes that since they...
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    FTC Paper: State Legislators Should Carefully Evaluate Proposals to Limit APNs

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

    And yet CRNAs help diversify the anesthesia job market. CRNAs have been shown to lower costs of anesthesia care, hence the FTC comments, whereas AAs do none of the above. When AAs can practice...
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    Florida Proposal PCB 14-01 Thoughts?

    wtbcrna replied to WhiffOfGas's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Nurse-Power Bill Gets Its Start | Health News Florida 1. The first article is a complete opinion piece. 2. It is full of lies. 3. In every state which CRNAs practice independently (and there are...
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    Poll: Your Badges

    wtbcrna replied to WhiffOfGas's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    It depends, but in general it is degree then certification. The AANA has their authors put certification and then degree, so you see a lot of CRNAs sign their titles that
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    Poll: Your Badges

    wtbcrna replied to WhiffOfGas's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I just have CRNA. It would get slightly lengthy to put MSN, DNAP, and eventually PhD on my badge especially when the CRNA portion is really the only important part for everyday
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    Propofol

    wtbcrna replied to clarkw12's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie This a nice literature review on sedation for mechanically ventilated
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    Propofol

    wtbcrna replied to clarkw12's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    That still doesn't matter. It is an expert opinion not research. It might seem like a small difference, but it is actually quite different. Expert opinion for one doesn't have to go through an...
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    Propofol

    wtbcrna replied to clarkw12's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    This isn't actually quoting the research. This is quoting an expert opinion from a book chapter. What research article does the book reference on this subject. Textbooks are often years out of date by...
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    Propofol

    wtbcrna replied to clarkw12's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I wouldn't judge too harshly until you have been in their situation for awhile. What looks wrong or right now might not be so clear cut
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    CRNA vs AA- FL...please HELP!

    wtbcrna replied to nataliemarkie's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I will just provide a comparison table from NM association of nurse anesthetists. http://www.nmana.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/AA-CRNA-comparison-table.pdf You can draw your own
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    Propofol

    wtbcrna replied to clarkw12's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Propofol can take minutes to over 24+hrs to get out of the system. It can take patients hours to wake up enough from being sedated with propofol to be able to wean the patient off the ventilator....
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    Propofol

    wtbcrna replied to clarkw12's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    You need to look at the context sensitive half lives of the different drugs to really understand why we use different infusions to sedate patients long-term. Context-sensitive half-life - Wikipedia,...
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    Flu Vaccine Effectiveness

    wtbcrna posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    [h=1]"Flu season waning; younger adults hit hardest"[/h]"Among infectious diseases, flu is considered one of the nation's leading killers. On average, about 24,000 Americans die each fluseason,...
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    How useful is ICU exp when you are finally a CRNA

    wtbcrna replied to icu2crna's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    ICU is part of your foundation for anesthesia school. You will utilize your knowledge of drips, ventilators, pathophysiology, and sedations that you used in ICU. Anesthesia and ICU are still vastly...
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    Fired for refusing??

    wtbcrna replied to Indyrn00's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Yep, mandatory coercion which is on the same lines as employer mandated OSHA requirements, keeping up with your nursing license, washing your hands, mandatory use of carcinogenic substances in the...
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    Vaccine Conspiracy Theorists More Likely To See Conspiracy Everywhere

    wtbcrna replied to wtbcrna's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Not that any of that has anything really to do with this thread, but yes people have been manupulating crops since farming began. People have picked the "best" specimens as seed for the next season...
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    Vaccine Conspiracy Theorists More Likely To See Conspiracy Everywhere

    wtbcrna replied to wtbcrna's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Correlation does not imply
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    Growing Up Unvaccinated

    wtbcrna replied to wtbcrna's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Peer-reviewed articles | Library & information Access | San Diego State
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    Vaccine Conspiracy Theorists More Likely To See Conspiracy Everywhere

    wtbcrna replied to wtbcrna's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Peer-reviewed articles | Library & information Access | San Diego State University. Since a lot of people have a problem with this concept here is a link to what a peer reviewed article is and why...
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    Vaccine Conspiracy Theorists More Likely To See Conspiracy Everywhere

    wtbcrna replied to wtbcrna's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Again no scientific evidence is basically a baseless argument and at worse it is just perpetuating another conspiracy
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    Vaccine Conspiracy Theorists More Likely To See Conspiracy Everywhere

    wtbcrna replied to wtbcrna's topic in Disaster Preparation

    As always if there is a valid point provide peer-reviewed scientific research to back up said point. When I provide a point in a debate I do my best to provide scientific research to back up that...