I'm obviously not an AA, but your question about working extra hours is one of the things pushing me towards pursuing CRNA school instead of AA school (in addition to repeatedly being turned down from AA school, LOL). I live in a city in which a few AA's work, and both the AA's and CRNA's I have talked to have told me that it is much easier for a CRNA to earn extra income than an AA due to CRNA's having much more lenient supervision laws. A friend who is a CRNA told me that they and the other CRNA's love to do extra hours in one of the local endo clinics and in outpatient surgery centers and that they're usually in around 6:30 AM and out for the day by 12:00 PM. However, AA's aren't able to do these extra endo clinic/surgery center shifts because anesthesiologists do not work on the premises. Just something to think about....
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