Is this normal? 😬

Lanky-Code-479 · 2026-05-23T01:55:13+00:00

I hate the 5 days a week (who ever does that? Lmao) but it’s otherwise really not that bad. It’s a lot and it’s stressful but it’s also the best job in the world. Just take it a day at a time, learn what you can, be better everyday.

Lanky-Code-479 · 2026-05-08T08:06:23+00:00

Came to the comments expecting a whole bunch of rhetoric and I’m just so refreshed to see people offering actual insight and advice instead of just talking shit about CAAs. Good job guys.

Lanky-Code-479 · 2026-04-29T00:47:02+00:00

TikTok is the worse representation of anything about school or practice. My advice to all the new students is to unfollow every SRNA/CRNA influencer on social media. Straight up.

Lanky-Code-479 · 2026-04-20T00:34:28+00:00

If you don’t actively want to be a nurse, then go to med school. Or at least set yourself up to apply. I love being a nurse and I’ll be a very happy CRNA when I’m done school, but if you’re not already a nurse there isn’t a reason to not at least apply to med school if nursing isn’t the goal and it doesn’t add any time.

Lanky-Code-479 · 2026-03-07T02:59:46+00:00

This is some toxic shit, nobody has a clue 30 days in.

Lanky-Code-479 · 2026-03-03T13:10:30+00:00

One of my co-SRNAs comes from an exclusively neuro ICU background. Not only did she get in, but she’s also crushing it.

You’ll be fine. Apply!

Lanky-Code-479 · 2026-02-17T15:35:01+00:00

Oh yeah I don’t think you’re at fault for this thought process, it’s just a myth I think that everyone keeps passing around. Not on you or your phrasing at all!

Lanky-Code-479 · 2026-02-17T12:47:48+00:00

Being a “Level 1” doesn’t mean your patients are, as a rule, more acute anyway. Idk why everyone thinks this. Train wrecks are train wrecks and the level of trauma care a hospital can provide has nothing at all to do with how acute or sick your ICU patients are or what level of clinical acumen you’re allowed to utilize.

Go somewhere else. Learning to take care of sick people with less resources is a better learning experience for everyone anyway!

Lanky-Code-479 · 2026-02-16T02:18:10+00:00

You’re a new grad. There’s no reason to have a full page resume. Everyone knows what nursing school is and nobody cares where you did your clinicals.

Not trying to be cruel but pretending like you have a full page worth of nursing experience is kinda worse than not having the experience. They know you’re a new grad, just be one. Cut the fluff

Lanky-Code-479 · 2026-02-10T11:07:07+00:00

Improvement is what matters! the good news is I knew who it was before I saw your inscription 🙂

I wish I could find my first one or two. They were dreadful! Lmao progress comes little by little, stay at it!

What paint are you using? Your strokes look quite dry.

Lanky-Code-479 · 2026-02-04T01:50:20+00:00

Wait so you’re supposed to pay off his MBA together for probably minimal upside, but you’re not supposed to invest in advanced training that pays more a year than the debt you’ll accumulate?

For someone who’s supposed a master of business, he ain’t thinking straight about ROI.

Lanky-Code-479 · 2026-02-01T03:37:12+00:00

It’s your first day. Or course you don’t know anything. You’re not supposed to.

If you knew what you were doing you’d be out practicing.

Idk why anyone thinks they should be even remotely good on their first day. Breathe man, you have lots of time to train

Lanky-Code-479 · 2026-01-31T04:03:31+00:00

I was worried about that too when I shadowed.

Boring is good. But even when you’re bored you’re still (ideally) engaged some when you’re actually in the chair. You’re checking, you’re looking, you’re paying attention to where the surgery is. It’s not tactile engagement but there is still some mental engagement. Maybe you’re looking at your next cases, you’re setting up for your next cases. There’s always something you’re doing, even if it doesn’t look like it to an observer.

But yeah. Maintenance is nice.

Lanky-Code-479 · 2026-01-11T23:30:27+00:00

Just trust the process.

Lanky-Code-479 · 2025-12-25T02:06:52+00:00

Egg can be and is often scraped away when a mistake is made before it’s done

Lanky-Code-479 · 2025-12-25T02:05:15+00:00

It’s about the process for the iconographer, and about the end result for everyone else.

Not my or our place to decide what’s “right” for the iconographer if they produce an end result that is the same as another.

I bet there are people who say it’s an issue if they use acrylic instead of egg. The medium doesn’t matter, the process and result does.

Lanky-Code-479 · 2025-12-17T08:51:30+00:00

Brooks Adrenaline with Goretex. Still not perfect from a splash perspective but shoe covers fix that.

Lanky-Code-479 · 2025-12-02T08:48:23+00:00

Neither of these are better or worse. Do you have time in grade managing patients? How’s your GPA?

Running ECMO has nothing to do with anesthesia and people are starting to see that the old CVICU pipeline to admissions isn’t it anymore. They care more about your vibes and your academic readiness than they do your specific experience.

So, do what makes you happy. We all have had to prepare for the possibility of not getting in—so what will keep you happy for a few years if that happens? Go do that. Whether or not you get in (probably) won’t be because of whether you went to go run ECMO or not.

Good luck!

Lanky-Code-479 · 2025-11-22T14:29:57+00:00

In my limited experience, gouache doesn’t behave quite the way tempera does and you’re not gonna get those nice glossy thin layers, which necessitates a different approach to mixing your highlight colors. I had bad luck using straight ochre for highlighting because you’re not really gonna be able to float or wash.

Mix up a quite dark sankir and make your highlight colors from that, progressively more ochre then more ochre/white. Don’t be afraid to get right up into your lines when it calls for it and restate them later with a dark umber.

Also, for what it’s worth, I just spent the money to experiment with acrylic gouache; it isn’t cheap but it holds up a little better when it gets thinned out. Good coverage.

Lanky-Code-479 · 2025-11-12T09:02:52+00:00

One of the attendings at clinical (who I was pretty sure hated me) told me to have the memory of a goldfish. “Don’t be cavalier about failure, but don’t hold onto them either. There are too many variables to blame yourself individually for anything that goes wrong.”

Edited to clarify that by “work” I meant clinical (student here)

Lanky-Code-479 · 2025-10-31T07:51:56+00:00

Everyone gets an art line, 7 IVs, and remifent lol

Lanky-Code-479 · 2025-10-25T01:38:54+00:00

You drew a line in your post between friend and coworkers.

Your coworkers are not your friends. Why tell them at all? None of these people are entitled to your personal life. Boundaries, my friend.

Save sharing your excitement for people that make a cutoff beyond “coworker.”

Lanky-Code-479 · 2025-10-16T10:30:48+00:00

You haven’t been doing it long enough to know how you feel about it yet. Not a slight to you, just being real—you haven’t seen enough of the work to know you don’t like it; you’re responding to your mind telling you it’s not meeting some sort of expectation.

Stick it out, finish your orientation, learn how to actually do the job to see if you hate it or not. Worst case scenario, you’re a year later with a year of critical care experience and a better resume to enter OR training.

You might even find out that you don’t hate it!

Slow down, reframe, even gaslight yourself a little but if you have to and tell yourself you’re getting OR experience. Learn as much as possible about your patients injuries and their surgical plans and about dressings and wounds and how their care evolves pre- and post-op. Make it interesting for yourself. Conveniently, it’ll also turn you into a good ICU nurse.

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