Since this is one of the highest paying specialties in nursing, I find it interesting that there is a higher concentration of men in this area of nursing vs. any other.
Does anyone have an opinion about why this is? Or if you are a male, can you tell me why you chose CRNA?
This is just an attempt to gain some insight into this topic so that I can get over any bias that I may have related to this issue.
Just fact finding.....not debating , not making anyone wrong.. :chair: .OK :)
I have wanted to be an anesthsia provider since the 5th grade when I had my tonsils out. when I was young and (more dumb) I thought that meant MDA. but when it came down to doing it, the research led me here.
by formality I became a nurse and by doing so became endeared to their cause. it was frustrating as a nurse (and still consider my self a nurse, when i use term that way I mean it in the traditional sense) to have been taught how to take care of people but not be able to do it. this is the only nursing field where you can apply what you've been taught.
If a CRNA has treated you poorly in the past, I and many others apologize for them. Some may have forgotten their name. I for one was treated disresectfully by a CRNA when I was in the ICU. It happend to be an "older" female CRNA. she seemed to be so busy that she didn't see who she was stepping on. the kind of response I expect from phycisians. I was disapointed but it didn't deter me from my plan. Rather, it solidified my plan to always treat the "nurses doing the work" as gods/godesses.
Nurses go through the valley of the shadow of death when they go to work every day and no one knows it.... I do. and I intend on remembering it.
When I was 5 I announced that I wanted to be a general surgeon...fastfoward 32 years and 3 kids later this is where I have arrived. Eyes toward achieving my CRNA. It seems to be the closest I can come to my original dream and still feel complete in my career path.
I love the OR and the people in it and to be able to stand "sentinel" for a person while they are under seems to me to be a great honor. Thanks for doing what you do and working so hard to get there....
When I was 5 I announced that I wanted to be a general surgeon...fastfoward 32 years and 3 kids later this is where I have arrived. Eyes toward achieving my CRNA. It seems to be the closest I can come to my original dream and still feel complete in my career path.
I love the OR and the people in it and to be able to stand "sentinel" for a person while they are under seems to me to be a great honor. Thanks for doing what you do and working so hard to get there....
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I have wanted to be an anesthsia provider since the 5th grade when I had my tonsils out. when I was young and (more dumb) I thought that meant MDA. but when it came down to doing it, the research led me here.
by formality I became a nurse and by doing so became endeared to their cause. it was frustrating as a nurse (and still consider my self a nurse, when i use term that way I mean it in the traditional sense) to have been taught how to take care of people but not be able to do it. this is the only nursing field where you can apply what you've been taught.
If a CRNA has treated you poorly in the past, I and many others apologize for them. Some may have forgotten their name. I for one was treated disresectfully by a CRNA when I was in the ICU. It happend to be an "older" female CRNA. she seemed to be so busy that she didn't see who she was stepping on. the kind of response I expect from phycisians. I was disapointed but it didn't deter me from my plan. Rather, it solidified my plan to always treat the "nurses doing the work" as gods/godesses.
Nurses go through the valley of the shadow of death when they go to work every day and no one knows it.... I do. and I intend on remembering it.