Posted by Future AA
on June 22, 2009, 12:30 am, in reply to "CRNAs going to doctorate, what does that mean for AAs"
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This is my first post on this message board, and as a future AA, I am petrified by all the angry people who may be my fellow employees.
To all those gloating and belittling each other's professions (the AA vs. CRNA battle), it is quite a moot battle. Either you failed to get into med school or your chose to enter mid-level care from the beginning, placing a ceiling on your job anyways.
Try getting through 4 semesters of calculus and differential equations where your professors hand out 2.25 class average GPAs in your hopes to obtain a BS in biomedical engineering, only to make it in 5 years (plus 3 summers). Your AA/CRNA curriculums AND your biology/nursing degrees will be humbled, especially if you never had to draw all the mechanisms within glycolysis and the citric acid cycle--by memory. Every electron...curse my biochemistry professor.
The fact of the matter is in the event of any sort of title and credential adjustment, I'm very sure that those AA's and CRNA's are readily capable and willing to prove themselves to keep their jobs. They all have gone to school for quite some time.
And for those CRNA's trying to say "bye-bye" to the ASA/AA's, just wait until your job is replaced by a machine, or worse.
Just be fortunate that we all have (or will soon have) jobs now. Looking forward to joining the AA lobbying battle for more states. Some really need it.
Looking forward to the heat. This is a messy board as it is. It isn't even proprietary, and there appears to be no form of moderation or user management (which explains all the flaming).
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