The Nurse Anethetist

The Nurse Anesthetist
by: Courtney Pendergraph
The Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) is a very boring, hard, risky, and un-needed, profession. Psyche! The Nurse Anesthetist is very far from boring, and just because you have to know your materials it doesn’t mean the job is hard and risky. How would it feel, if you knew you could save someone from going through pain, or even saving their life? It would feel amazing right? Well, you can do just that by becoming a Nurse Anesthetist.
Nurse Anesthetists do all they can to help patients become pain-free, before, during, and after surgeries. Yes, you have to go to school, and learn your materials extremely well, but once you complete school, the time will pay off. You need to start focusing in on your studies in high school. To even become a nurse you need to take courses like biology, anatomy and physiology, chemistry, and be able to be good at any type of math. For your training after high school, you will have to have your Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree, a registered nurse license, an a year of practical nurse experience. Once you finish your regular nursing school, you also have to complete a Nurse Anesthesia Program, and get your masters degree from that. All of these classes sounds like a load, but once you start making your salary, you might change your mind.
Nurse Anesthetists start out making an average of $100,000 a year. With years of experience, and the more you become accustomed to the job, the better your pay will be. Some Nurse Anesthetists make about $150,000 a year. It’s definitely a good way to start your life. There is even, an extremely bright outlook on job opportunities for Nurse Anesthetists. People hire you in hospitals, surgical clinics, the military, psychiatric wards, emergency rooms, dental offices, and even private practices. So, pretty much anywhere you go in the country, you will be able to find a job.
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