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Another quarter down only ONE MORE to go 😀 3 mo Another quarter down only ONE MORE to go 😀
3 more months until graduation!! 🎓👩🏻‍🎓
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⏰ 2,200 hours of clinical experience down and some more to go BUT
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The countdown begins 🎉
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I highly do not recommend tag-teaming a case with I highly do not recommend tag-teaming a case with your friend cause you will end up dying from laughter at each other the entire time. 🫀💉 @ed.tee 
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PROPOFOL FACTS🤍😴💤 Did you know the last 2 PROPOFOL FACTS🤍😴💤
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Nurse Anesthetist loaaaaadingggggg… ⠀⠀⠀⠀ Nurse Anesthetist loaaaaadingggggg…
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I thought I’d be all coordinated and wear this c I thought I’d be all coordinated and wear this cap for dental cases, then the OR nurse asked me if there were butt cracks on my cap & now I’ll never unsee it 😂 🍑 looks like this is my new endo cap 💩

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I’ve been seeing so many versions of what happen I’ve been seeing so many versions of what happened with #radondavaught that me & my roommate found the official court documents & photo evidence for those who are interested in what happened in the words of RaDonda herself. In general, don’t ever trust what comments you read on social media, & read the facts before forming your opinion, regardless of what stance you take. This is an unfortunate circumstance for everyone involved & I am so SO ready for the nursing profession to start to feel passionate and empowered again. 😕 Swipe to read, what do you guys think?
Let’s talk about blood transfusion! 🩸⁣ ⁣ Let’s talk about blood transfusion! 🩸⁣
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𝐩𝐑𝐁𝐂𝐬 ⁣
🔴 Transfusing 1 unit of pRBCs raises Hgb ~ 1g/dL & Hct by 2-3%. This provides a good estimate of where you should be at without drawing labs.⁣
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🔴 There are 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 that increase the shelf-life of blood. ⁣
- 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞: anticoagulant. You don’t want your blood clotting in the bag! It inhibits calcium. Keep this in mind if giving multiple units, could lead to hypocalcemia. ⁣
- 𝐃𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞: substrate for glycolysis for energy (ATP). This prevents the RBC from using the oxygen they’re transporting to the tissues. ⁣
- 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞: a buffer that prevents acidosis⁣
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🔴 Although these additives are great to prolong banked blood, they also come with consequences the longer the blood sits there. ⁣
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𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐤𝐬 include:⁣
- ↓ 𝐩𝐇 = ↑ lactic acid = bad⁣
- ↑ 𝐊 (keep in mind for renal fail pts). Hyperkalemia can result from an impaired RBC cell membrane that happens with stored blood, causing K to leak out. ⁣
- ↓ 𝟐,𝟑 𝐃𝐏𝐆 = ↓O2 release to the tissues. Which is the whole point of RBCs right. To deliver oxygen to the body. This is why with ECMO patients we used to ask blood bank for our blood to be <10 days old, to get the max benefit for these sick hypoxic patients. ⁣
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🔴What does 𝘭𝘦𝘶𝘬𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 mean? You’ll see this a lot on your blood bags. Leuko = WBC, reduced. This reduces/removes WBCs from pRBCs. This decreases the risk of febrile transfusion reactions & other adverse effects. ⁣
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It was a cool day. I remember the first time an an It was a cool day. I remember the first time an anesthesiologist went to intubate and he let me peek at the vocal cords when I was 15. I fell in love with anesthesia that day. 

Early on in clinical, I would think of that moment sometimes & wonder how he was able to do that so gracefully. I remember being so overwhelmed with intubating - how was he able to keep that perfect view for so long and so casually? I felt like I had seconds before I would lose my view and struggle to find it again. I felt like that would never be me and that I was a failure. 

I remember being asked by preceptors to explain each step of what I was doing during induction, and how my mind would literally black out cause I was trying so hard to focus on the tasks. How could they expect me to say everything out loud and the rationale plus answer their questions during such a critical moment? 

Today there were 2 nursing students shadowing in the OR, & my preceptor told me to explain everything I was doing & then I did. And when I went to intubate I got my view & asked them both if they wanted to see & then they did. And idk if I’m emotional because I’ve had 3 hours of sleep or cause that was just kinda cool because I finally felt competent enough to do what that MD did 15 years ago but yeah it was a good day.
Let’s talk about heparin! A commonly used antico Let’s talk about heparin! A commonly used anticoagulant 🩸
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🩸 Heparin is derived from 🐄 lung & 🐖 GI mucosa 🥺
🩸 It binds to antithrombin (a natural anticoagulant circulating in our bodies already) and amplifies it 1000x 💪🏼
🩸 The official definition of 1 unit of heparin is….the volume of heparin-containing solution that prevents 1mL of citrated 🐑 blood from clotting for 1 hour following the addition of 0.2mL of 1:1000 CaCl. Phew how’s that for a definition!😮‍💨
🩸 The typical VTE prophylaxis dose is 5000u SQ BID/TID
🩸 You monitor heparin via your PTT or ACT. 
🩸 Normal PTT: 25-35 sec
🩸 Normal ACT: 90-120 sec
🩸 To reverse heparin you give ➡️ Protamine!
🩸 Protamine is derived from salmon sperm 🥴
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Student budget = 5 bikinis under $15 😱👙 Whic Student budget = 5 bikinis under $15 😱👙 Which one is your fave 1-5?! I’ve linked them all in my bio under shop my gram - free ship + returns 🛍

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MUST HAVE Products for School

May 2, 2021May 2, 2021

One of the most common questions I receive in my DMs is what products I have and use for school. This post is going to be straight to the point and includes links to everything I own that has been absolutely necessary for being a student.

I’ll start with the iPad. People ask me what kind I have allll the time, and is it necessary? The answer for me has been 100% HELL YES. This all depends on your school of course, but if your instructors give you downloadable powerpoints, having everything on your iPad is sooo nice. Trust me I get it, I went from paper note-taking and textbooks when I was in nursing school, and I was incredibly intimidated when people told me they recommended an iPad for CRNA school. It was a learning curve at first, but man, being able to search exact terms for what you’re looking for in a sea of lecture material….yes please. No more flipping through pages trying to find what you’re looking for, no tabs, no binders or heavy books to lug around. Given, some textbooks are just nice to have in person, I have one that’s the most commonly referenced in my program, but that’s it.

So then I’m always asked, “do I need the iPad pro?” The answer is no. Do not waste your money, you’re broke enough. If your iPad is strictly for school, you are absolutely fine with the more basic version. The only thing you need on there is your note-taking app (I use Notability), and maybe a few educational apps that you like. One thing I learned however, is that CRNA school (and probably other graduate programs) will need higher storage to accommodate for all the material. There’s just too much. I originally bought the 32G iPad before school, the cheapest option, and unfortunately this month I had to trade in my 32G for the 128G. Which honestly totally worked out fine. It was so easy to trade in my previous iPad for the larger storage one, I only had to pay like, $200 to upgrade. So. Depending on the amount of material you are going to receive in school, that will determine your storage size. If you want to keep a bunch of textbooks on your iPad I would probably suggest the 128G. If you’re hesitant to take the pricier plunge, buy the 32G, see how far it gets ya, and you can ALWAYS trade-in that iPad for an upgrade, so you’re not really out any more money than if you would have paid for the bigger size upfront.

So here’s the link to mine:

Next lies my trusty whiteboard. My desk faces my whiteboard. I sit at my desk for hours every single day. I use my whiteboard in two kinds of ways, active and passive.

When there is a suuuper difficult concept I try to draw it out. I try & put together an entire chapter/lecture/concept in one place. This is the part that takes forever. Because this is the LEARNING part. You learn as you tie everything all together in relationship with one another and once you understand that? You’ve learned the material. The next part is just maintaining and memorizing that understanding. 🧠

There comes the passive part. I leave my big drawing up on my whiteboard for days. While I could be working on something else, my whiteboard is always in direct view and I look at it often. Eventually, it becomes so familiar I can “see” the entire drawing in my head as I’m taking my test.

Everyone I know in my program has a whiteboard. I often get asked what size to get and as with everything… the bigger the better. Mine is about 3ft x 4ft and sometimes I do wish I had more space on it, but my size is definitely great and effective.

Linked here.

Headphones. I wear my headphones nonstop. I’m someone that has to have background music while I study or I just completely zone out. When starting school, I knew I had to buy headphones but of course was trying to stay on a student budget. I tried out two different pairs of “noise-canceling” headphones, and they just weren’t truly noise-canceling so I returned them. Sometimes you do get what you pay for. My friend in another CRNA program recommended this pair below, and yup, best investment ever. The quality is very much worth the money and if they broke this second I’d buy them again in a heartbeat.

Here they are:

Link here.

In addition to those headphones, I did want a pair that wasn’t as bulky to bring with me to school, so I could pop them in at the library or in the lab and listen to lectures/music. As always, I stalk the crap out of everything I buy, and landed on these bluetooth headphones with like, the best reviews on amazon. Originally I had bought a pair for my husand for Christmas because his airpods broke, and again with my student budget mindset, I knew there had to be something of the same quality out there that isnt so expensive. After reading the reviews on these headphones I decided to buy them for my husband. Then I started stealing them for myself cause they were so great. Everyone’s saying the quality is way better than airpods, and they come in a bunch of great colors. And they’re WATERPROOF. LIke idk why you would wear these in the shower but IF YOU WANTED TO you could, and that’s just randomly cool. In the end, they’re so cheap I decided to stop stealing my husbands and bought my own pair in pink.

Ta da! And check out all of those 100K+ 5 star reviews!

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A backpack that stores it all. I always need everything organized and in its place. So I knew I needed to get a backpack that had a bunch of compartments and functionality. Here’s one that can hold it all and is super durable, plus you can charge your phone and that’s cool too.

Linked below. Comes in tons of other designs too.

Linked here

I also have a fun gold whiteboard calendar on my wall, so I can just look up from my desk and see all the hell that will be taking place that week.

Link here.

Favorite note-taking pens:

Linked here.

COMPUTER STAND. I’ve got neck problems as it is and if you don’t yet, you will in school, sorry. There’s tons of computer stands out there but I wanted one that was minimal and didn’t look like some crazy metal contraption and make my desk all ugly you know? Here’s my desk.

laptop pink stand in girly office desk
Computer stand link here.

I got tired of putting paper or whatever over my laptop camera above. Now I have these awesome easy webcam sliders so you don’t have to be paranoid that you left your video on in class.

Problem solved. Click here.

Another common thing people ask me about is my laptop case. Here she is, just double-check on the one I linked to make sure it’s the correct size for your macbook before you order.

Linkkkkkk

And lastly, random little things on my desk that help keep me in the zone:

If I’m studying in my office, 99% of the time I have a candle burning. Idk what it is, but it adds a little calm to my madness. A miniature spa if you will. Fragrance that makes you happy is a yes for me. If I’m mourning the loss of my exposure to the outdoor seasons, I’ll light a candle with a summer or winter scent to make me feel like at least seasons exist since I never leave my office and go outside. Two of my favorites are the stress relief candles from Bath & Body Works or the Mahogany Teakwood. I have a serious Bath & Body candle obsession but we’re not going to dive into that.

This last one’s super random I don’t know why I’m including it but I like them so whatever. I was looking on amazon for something naturally calming & portable that I could bring anywhere if I get stressed or just need to take a deep breath. I came across these lil’ mini inhalers and I’m actually obsessed. They have super small chunks of himalayan pink salt on the inside (which have tons of health benefits), and the inhaler includes peppermint, eucalyptus, lavender, rosemary and tea tree. It’s super minty kinda like those Vicks inhalers but this one’s cuter and 100% organic. I keep one on my desk and in my backpack.

Breathe here.

That’s all for now, happy studying!

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Another quarter down only ONE MORE to go 😀 3 mo Another quarter down only ONE MORE to go 😀
3 more months until graduation!! 🎓👩🏻‍🎓
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⏰ 2,200 hours of clinical experience down and some more to go BUT
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The countdown begins 🎉
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#crna #srna #srnalife #srnaproblems #nurseanesthesia #nurseanesthetist #nurseanesthesiologist #anesthesiology #nurseanesthesiology #futurecrna #srnatocrna #nurseblog #icurn #crnaweek #nurseanesthesia #crna #crnaschool #srnatocrna #nurseanesthetists
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