wtbcrna MSN, DNP, CRNA

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    Nursing and then medical school?

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

    Okay, this wrong. CRNA shifts vary as widely as anesthesiologists. In my city there are 4 hospitals and none offer straight M-F shifts working set hours all the time. All the CRNAs have to pull call...
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    Likleyhood of a critical care placement is first year of Air Force service?

    wtbcrna replied to logan9519's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    We will just have to agree to disagree since all that was posted is public information that is easily accessible through a public website. No other persons were mentioned by name. That is like saying...
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    Likleyhood of a critical care placement is first year of Air Force service?

    wtbcrna replied to logan9519's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    No, OPSEC or confidential information was given. The USUHS faculty are all listed with their pictures on a public website, if I posted something else you will have to let me know because I missed...
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    Likleyhood of a critical care placement is first year of Air Force service?

    wtbcrna replied to logan9519's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Sounds like large ACT practices...That will make it hard to learn how to be an independent
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    Likleyhood of a critical care placement is first year of Air Force service?

    wtbcrna replied to logan9519's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    1. Depending on the NA school it is often easier to get into the AF CRNA program. The trick is meeting all the requirements, and not being under the retention bonus. The AF program is smaller than the...
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    Likleyhood of a critical care placement is first year of Air Force service?

    wtbcrna replied to logan9519's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Congrats on your new appointment at USUHS. I am still working in the SICU at Bethesda. I'm down to about 8 shifts left there. Still maintaining a 4.0 GPA in my anesthesia program. Just got selected to...
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    Likleyhood of a critical care placement is first year of Air Force service?

    wtbcrna replied to logan9519's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    There is not a quick route to get into AF CRNA school. As a new nurse your options are either come in as a fully qualified ICU nurse, come in as a med-surg nurse then go through the critical care...
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    Likleyhood of a critical care placement is first year of Air Force service?

    wtbcrna replied to logan9519's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    My overall timeline is right if you look at the USAF NC Call for Candidates you will see where that timeline comes in. 1. 24 months is the minimum TOS before you can go to any AFIT sponsored school if...
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    LMA Package Insert Key Evidence In Anesthesia Malpractice Case

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

    It is hard to say what you would do or not do unless you're in the exact same situation. The CRNA could have anticipated a difficult intubation, and decided they didn't want to paralyze and intubate...
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    LMA Package Insert Key Evidence In Anesthesia Malpractice Case

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

    You can never make a consent that covers every
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    LMA Package Insert Key Evidence In Anesthesia Malpractice Case

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

    It is ironic when morbidly obese patients come to surgery and expect the exact same outcomes and anesthetics as a healthy person with a normal
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    LMA Package Insert Key Evidence In Anesthesia Malpractice Case

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

    It would be an interesting court case. The main differences IMO would be that propofol has a well established (well over 200k) safety record for use by non-anesthesia persons, and propofol use by...
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    A new reversal for neuromuscular blockers

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

    Europe has always been our Phase IV testing site for new
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    considering crna school after bsn

    wtbcrna replied to JessyPaige_93's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    The only CRNA programs that were mostly online are now defunct. Texas Christian University allows you to do the first few months of non-clinical didactic classes online before starting in class, but...
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    A new reversal for neuromuscular blockers

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

    Yeah, but remember it takes about 17 years on average for research to be implemented into practice. The first article about Sugammadex was published in 2002, and it is still not been approved by the...
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    AANA urges Medicare to consider hospital anesthesiology efficiency measures

    wtbcrna posted a topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    AANA Urges Medicare to Consider Hospital Anesthesiology Efficiency Measures The AANA has recommended that Medicare consider the costs of various anesthesia delivery models and of hospital anesthesia...
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    PhD in Nursing Programs

    wtbcrna replied to wtbcrna's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Thanks for the information. The programs I have found so far are UAB, U. South Miss, and
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    Likleyhood of a critical care placement is first year of Air Force service?

    wtbcrna replied to logan9519's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    1. It depends on your command, your schedule, and the local availability. A lot ICUs won't train prn nurses to work in the ICU unless they have great need for ICU nurses. 2. When you have enough hours...
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    Likleyhood of a critical care placement is first year of Air Force service?

    wtbcrna replied to logan9519's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    As a 46N1/med-surg nurse you would probably work on med-surg or in a clinic somewhere. The other option for new AF nurses is to work in OB, but I do not recommend that route if CRNA is your ultimate...
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    Likleyhood of a critical care placement is first year of Air Force service?

    wtbcrna replied to logan9519's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    The chances are pretty much zero. The USAF has no interest in training new nurses into critical care. The USAF designed the AFIT critical care internship program to fill the needs of training new...
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    European Body Calls for Halt to Marketing of Hydroxyethyl Starch

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

    I am not sure you know the whole story behind hespan. The main researcher for hespan may have fabricated most or all of the original data. Top German anesthesiologist’s cardiac surgery paper...
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    Surgery patients in New England are at risk of contracting Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

    wtbcrna posted a topic in Operating Room

    "Over the past week we have learned that 15 patients in New England were exposed to a rare infection called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) when neurosurgical instruments contaminated with the...
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    AANA urges Medicare to consider hospital anesthesiology efficiency measures

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

    I understand that nurses are disrespected by physicians and abused. All CRNAs come from nursing backgrounds, but that does not mean that nurses who are not CRNAs have a clue of the working...
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    New back-to-school worry: Unvaccinated classmates

    wtbcrna replied to wtbcrna's topic in Nursing News

    I think if you learn to really read and interpret peer-reviewed scientific literature you will come to trust it more. In my doctoral program I was able to find and recognize two articles with...
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    Did you feel CRNA school really prepared you?

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

    I graduated LVN school in 1998, BSN 2000, and MSN/CRNA in 2009. My MSN program was 30 months