CRNAs in Practice

Wow, what changes we have seen...

Jobs tightening up, the website exploding with new members, schools putting out too many students and even more attacks by out detractors with a background of major wins for our profession... and ive been working

We have seen an iphone app come to fruition as well as a major and minor website upgrade.

My wife has graduated anesthesia school and is working now.

We are buying a house and getting out of ...

Interesting conversation the other day...

I was sitting with a couple of people from my group and we were discussing the future of anesthesia in general. It is always interesting to see the drastic difference in opinion from one person to another.

One fella was saying how we should work like DOGS now because 5 years from now we (CRNAs) will be making 90K a year at best and floor RNs will be lucky to make 40K.

Another fellow (one of our MDAs) was talking about ...

Wow....

So here I am a year since I have been in my practice. It is amazing just how differently I practice now since day 1. My comfort level is significantly higher as well. I would say I do almost nothing like what I did in training. Just some quick examples of that...

- Noone where i trained used ketamine, i use it all the time

- noone where I trained was comfortable with deep extubation, i do it all the time

- noone mixed drugs to get a better ...