Say it's not so

I sincerely hope that this is a rarity among students. I will be starting school this summer and personally, can barely sit still. I was the same way after graduating as a nurse. True, you get tired of the daily grind in school, but if you are in it for the right reasons, you'll be excited. If someone is afraid to work, afraid to be challenged, etc, I'd say they are in it simply for the money. And that is sad.

I know several other students in other programs (Kaiser, Texas Wesleyan) and they are as excited as I am. They stay longer than anybody else. They want the difficult cases. In essence, they want to experience and learn as much as possible. I share their drive and passion and think most students do too.

Yoga, don't throw away the whole bunch because of a few bad apples. There's plenty of students with a passion for providing high-quality care to the anesthetized patient.

bj

Can't seem to find the group yoga. Can you give me any other asssitance??

well yoga, i can only speak for myself. first semester student. i never want to leave clinicals. my preceptors often make me. if i start a case i want to finish it. our clinical hours run till 3 in the afternoon. i often leave closer to 5 or 6 so i can handle my patients emergence, and transfer to pacu. i often seek cases outside of the room i'm assigned, and look actively for all learning experiences that i can find.

my motto is, "i didnt travel 2/3 the way across the country to sit at my house, there aint no anesthesia going on there"

i for one want the harder cases. if you can do those. the easier ones would seem to be a breeze.

i agree with my friend anesthesiabound, dont lump us all together. each individual is just that...an individual with different motivations, and work ethics.

jmho

d

i must admit...i am very much like you all...the more experience and learning...the happier i am...but i will admit - there are those in my class who are whining about all kinds of stuff...i kinda made em angry when i said quit bi#$%ing and do the work..........(not all of em...just a few)

this is rare and i am just doing relay here but I have heard in some cases that crnas are not to excited to have students and somtimes "abuse" them... if thats a word.. (abuse) anyway in those cases I have heard that the student will complain inorder to try and get a diff preceptor or diff. clinical site.

hmmm. I know this happens among nurses.... could it among crna's i hope not..

that is also true, as i as of late have had a preceptor that i didnt like working with (as well as other students in my rotation) but what i did learn is that there is something to learn from every preceptor. maybe you learn things you would NOT do as well as those things you would do.

anesthesia can be performed many ways, and seeing one way you wouldnt do it can also be beneficial.

my .02

d

I'm happy to say that most of my fellow classmates certainly don't have this attitude. We all want hard, complicated cases, and aren't expecting more than 4-6 weeks orientation after graduation. But we're not there yet, so all I can really say, is I guess we'll see.........

i could be wrong...but my program seems pretty set on making us self-sufficient by graduation and not needing an "orientation" especially not one of 4-6 wks

try more like four days where I work, and was taking in-house 24 hr-call with epidurals, and all regionals at level 2 trauma in 4 weeks by ourselves---you either sink or swim,,but we was well prepared with school,,,unlike most RN schools I know of

Posted a reply on OGP. I work a lot, take a lot of call and don't complain. My orientation was three days. That was plenty.

The four weeks of orientation I referred to was what the hospital we do most of our clinical at offers. At that particular facility, I think anything less would be absolutely unsafe. Level I trauma, 850 beds, 28 main OR (we're not counting outpt), and being sent to MRI, ECT, CCL, and god knows where else. Oh, did I leave out L&D? It takes four weeks just to learn your way around, and figure out where all of your supplies are in each area. To throw any new CRNA in that without knowing how everything is set up is waiting for a mistake that could've been prevented with a little extra orientation. I must agree with one point--any anesthesia school in the US should teach you everything you need to know about ANESTHESIA. They can't prepare you for miscellaneous things like how to get to some room on some floor you've never been to, for a code's difficult airway. What do you other students feel about being thrown into something like that after graduation? Am I the only one who thinks that would be a little dangerous???

I think that there is always someone who can tell me what I need to know. I can get the layout of a hospital in a couple of days. This floor that room is the same all over the country.

I don't think I interviewed anywhere prior to graduation that had an extended orientation. I believe the standard is between 3 days and 1 week.

In a perferct world it would be easier if the orientation were longer, but I don't neccesarily think it would be safer.