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  1. Experienced CRNA...ask me anything

    offlabel replied to 06crna's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    The lid has been blown off of CRNA training...if your are under 30 and childless...do it. If not there are nursing jobs that will remunerate handsomely in the long run. Same goes for medical school,...

  2. Fainted while watching blood being drawn... Advice for nursing student?

    offlabel replied to LindseyPar's topic in General Nursing

    Chill out..you fainted because you "get it". Morons don't faint because they have no idea what they are witnessing....you do. Congratulations...you have a fantastic career ahead of you...feel sorry...

  3. All Things CRNA

    offlabel replied to axcoleman's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Your Mom will be your best resource here as an MDA. All of the politics and antagonism will be mitigated as a result of her wanting the best for you as your mother. Ask her for honest answers and...

  4. Lung Transplants

    offlabel replied to Future1Intub8er1995's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Awesome response, I mean that sincerely. Thank you. I took you for a gen x snow flake which your are obviously not. Point of order, I did not use an "umlaut". "Scare quotes" would be more...

  5. Help Solve OR Burn Mystery!!

    offlabel replied to a.smithrn's topic in Operating Room

    Lights aren't directed at the axillae during cardiac surgery. What about BP cuffs? Re-useable? Processed with

  6. Help Solve OR Burn Mystery!!

    offlabel replied to a.smithrn's topic in Operating Room

    Reminds me of when the ICU wrote up my anesthesia group for "tape burns" on patient's faces when they were the ones ripping it off to extubate or switch from our tape to their Velcro tube

  7. Lung Transplants

    offlabel replied to Future1Intub8er1995's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I don't believe "mean" or "hate" has any kind of context here. Advice that is heeded or not, valuable or not, isn't a question of morals or virtue. Calling something "mean" and "hate"ful that you...

  8. Lung Transplants

    offlabel replied to Future1Intub8er1995's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    An SRNA will never do enough lung transplants (if they even get into a room at all) to do anything more than tasky skills you'd do on any other case. Certainly not enough to be able to "do" one. Lots...

  9. Help Solve OR Burn Mystery!!

    offlabel replied to a.smithrn's topic in Operating Room

    Is there a common pattern and size? If it's really a burn, it isn't occurring in the OR if they're at least one day post op. I'd start looking at the

  10. Bradycardia vs Tachycardia

    offlabel replied to hanakimi4's topic in General Nursing

    As a practical matter, I'd rather treat too slow than too fast. Less to think about, differential list is shorter, overall easier to treat

  11. Help getting in OR

    offlabel replied to inspired78's topic in Operating Room

    As a busy ward nurse, you have a lot of contact and interaction with patients and their families. As an OR nurse, you will have none of that. You will be an umpire of sorts, seeing to the adherence of...

  12. Is it possible for a nurse to become a doctor?

    offlabel replied to madel23's topic in General Nursing

    Medicine and nursing are not even in the same galaxy. The nursing education establishment has seen to that. Any similarities between APRNs and medical doctors comes from deliberate and intentional...

  13. Is it possible for a nurse to become a doctor?

    offlabel replied to madel23's topic in General Nursing

    RN's become doctors not infrequently. I know a couple. They are an interesting bunch though. On the surface they seem to play down any deferential status, but they seem to be consistently among the...

  14. Nurse Residency Program

    offlabel replied to Djeffer2's topic in General Nursing

    can we stop calling supplemental nursing training "residency"? That term is a ACGME designation for doctors. Using it implies that nursing needs a "doctor" term because nurses lack credibility. It's...

  15. Cricoid Pressure

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

    Which is why, when designing your EMR or anesthesia forms (or re-ordering them), you don't include the cricoid pressure box at

  16. What have you heard about Creighton University's RN to Paramedic Program?

    offlabel replied to Kareegasee's topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    Agree with the sentiment re:quality of paramedic, but the OP is pursuing a career as a flight nurse, and will presumably, be hired as one, not a flight paramedic. The paramedic cert will add to the...

  17. Sicu in a hospital without a trauma center

    offlabel replied to NurseChrisL's topic in Critical Care

    Non-trauma surgical patients can be every bit as challenging as trauma patients. If a post surgical patient is sick enough to be in the ICU (maybe 1-10% of surgical patients) he is pretty sick. Trauma...

  18. Cricoid Pressure

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

    Now that you have your answer, OP, you can ask your preceptor for convincing evidence that CP prevents aspiration on induction of

  19. Amiodarone help!

    offlabel replied to Brama28's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    ACLS are guidelines...If a doc (or APRN in states like mine) wants to deviate from them, that falls under their

  20. Struggling to be a Christian Nurse

    offlabel replied to newgirlintown94's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    She didn't lose her job because she couldn't separate her Christianity from her work, she lost it for precisely the opposite reason. Would that more Christians would integrate their faith into their...

  21. Can you explain a time when you feel like your nursing license was put on the line?

    offlabel replied to Nurse2Kids's topic in School

    never in 30 years did I ever "feel" as though my license were "on the line". If one were to "feel" that way, it would be to that person's benefit to examine his or her place in patient

  22. Clinical question?

    offlabel replied to amzyRN's topic in Emergency

    A Code 3 ambulance means nothing...any ER will have a standing "set up" for any emergency that rolls or walks in. What matters is the assessment. Any experienced ER nurse will run out of fingers...

  23. chest tubes

    offlabel replied to FutureNurse0201's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You should think of these tubes as "pleural tubes", because "chest tubes" can mean different things. So, the answer is in the term "water seal". There is a column of water between the collection...

  24. Gave up DNP

    offlabel replied to LookForward's topic in Advanced Practice

    APRN for 23 years, but I am involved in clinical instruction. I'm able to lecture at the university level with my MS, but not run a program. Certainly no need to have a DNP for clinical practice....

  25. Dirt bike camp

    offlabel replied to JamiePedsRN's topic in Camp

    I only have experience with chain saw juggling