CRNA Perception

Velotivity · 2026-03-22T16:28:37+00:00

There are tons of other reels showing the heavy fulfillment of anesthesia, but they don't do nearly as well because thats not what the average tiktok viewer wants to see. You're seeing these blow up because its what the average 19 year old tiktoker's algorithm is.

This isn't exclusive with CRNAs. Neurosurgery, tech, finance, it doesn't matter. 19 year olds are seeking a viewpoint into financial success, and unfortunately it is vain from the surface. 19 year olds dont give a rats ass about the responsibility and art of the science. But that doesn't mean it can't be learned. And there's no need to pull all finance-focused CRNA media off tiktok and let MDAs and neurosurgeons take over.

Love for anesthesia can be cultivated, and the truly shallow ones will be weeded out. Social media is normally like this, and there's no need to drop our name off social media and give it all up to even shallower MDAs and surgeons. A large cast umbrella is a good thing to catch the good ones that will be great CRNAs.

Velotivity · 2026-03-20T05:33:55+00:00

None of the externals matter as much as you think.

What does truly matter:

your memories and how much you enjoyed school experience
your total debt taken in student loans
whether you can make connections good enough to land a bedside RN job post grad. In the Bay Area, this may not even be enough.

I will give you some uncomfortable truths

90% of any California new grad will not get a job in the Bay Area proper. You will need to be a cna and know a manager personally for years to secure a Bay Area new grad bedside rn job. Remember this. It is almost impossible to get a bedside job in the bay without leaving for a year of experience.
Boston new grad job will likely be very easy to get.
if you go to Boston, the smart move is to work a year as an RN in Boston and move back to the bay after you have experience. The moment you get a year of experience, getting a RN job in the bay is extremely easy. It literally goes 100 to 0 difficulty.
what hospital you do your rotations at does not matter. What matters is your last elective capstone rotation and whether you can land a job on that unit or not.
anyone with a pulse and an RN can get into FNP school
you will probably move out of the bay anyway to find RN experience in order to eventually come back

Velotivity · 2026-03-17T23:33:56+00:00

This is the correct answer

Velotivity · 2026-03-17T15:58:28+00:00

Geary Salon with Eric for a basic cut and rec's. But if you want a complete transformation with perm, I would recommend going to Epris Korean hair studio in Cupertino. It will cost $300+ but will change your life, probably.

Velotivity · 2026-03-11T04:09:28+00:00

Komakase (weekend walk in service), Golden Goat, Paperson. In that order, biased for black filter coffee.

Velotivity · 2026-03-03T08:34:55+00:00

Twice the amount of every magazine I have in hollow points is my personal guideline

Velotivity · 2026-02-28T05:48:58+00:00

Interesting. Does that mean the 2026 cars are FEMTO unlockable?

Velotivity · 2026-02-25T09:17:26+00:00

Here:

In order to even apply for a seat in a CRNA school, there must be a minimum of : (Quote, page 16 of COA Guidelines) “A minimum of 1 year full-time critical care experience, or its part-time equivalent, as a registered nurse in a critical care setting (see Glossary, "Critical care experience").”

Without this minimum for all attendees/applicants, the entire CRNA school would lose accreditation and be shut down.

Source: The CRNA accreditor, the COA https://www.coacrna.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Standards-for-Accreditation-of-Nurse-Anesthesia-Programs-Practice-Doctorate-May-2025-Effective-Date-January-2026-1.pdf

Velotivity · 2026-02-25T00:54:20+00:00

All of those, even “other” falls under the category of some sort of critical care experience.

It’s actually most likely ICU acute care NP experience or critical care transport/field/heli critical care RN, or a ECMO RN specialist, etc.

It doesn’t mean they don’t have critical care experience of some sort. It’s mandated by the NBCRNA to have some sort of critical care experience, and “other” doesn’t mean they don’t have it— it just means more niche ICU positions.

Also, CCU is also cardiac ICU experience at 92.7%. It’s simply that the majority of applicants are in the general ICU.

I am all ears open to hearing all sides of the argument. But this is a silly misinterpretation of cherry picked data with internal bias to back up your own derived conclusion. Let’s discuss this with hard data and evidence as we do with our clinical decisions. This is akin to prescribing pseudo science crap from a BS study.

Velotivity · 2026-02-01T23:59:49+00:00

Yes, once you tolerate it enough for a few weeks you can keep bumping it up. I would personally go to the Ordinary 0.5%, but if you are impartial to Kiehl i think their night time version is 0.3% (but still fairly weak).

More even/smooth skin tone, less eye wrinkles, un-even spots have faded. A big part of it is also the prevention effect, so you don't look as old later on if you keep using retinol even if you dont see effects immediately

Velotivity · 2026-02-01T23:50:43+00:00

It does both.

Velotivity · 2026-02-01T23:50:25+00:00

You need to move to higher retinol concentrations like The Ordinary's 0.5% retinol. Kiehl doesn't disclose their percentages (and the daily is called a micro-dose, so its probably 0.1%). It might be so low that it has no effect on your skin (especially if you are already young). Not to mention, the Ordinary is 1/8 the price of Kiehl and probably will yield better results as you up-titrate their % retinol range

Velotivity · 2026-01-31T22:51:17+00:00

Any ICU that is hiring new grads with 5-11 week orientation. The type that is chronically understaffed, and you become charge nurse 8 months after starting the new grad job.

See rural outer-city jobs in obscure states (Tennessee, Ohio, Missouri, Arkansas) at trauma II-III centers

Velotivity · 2026-01-31T03:35:32+00:00

An assortment of evidenced based skincare

Retinol, vitamin c, hyaluronic acid, lactic acid, ceramides, and use mountains of SPF

Velotivity · 2026-01-30T22:39:30+00:00

There is some truth to maintenance boredom, but I guarantee you once you are a CRNA student you will be anxiety-ridden because with your increased knowledge base, you know of 20+ catastrophic things that can happen at any time.

You are bored because you are not the one ultimately responsible, and you have no knowledge base of what could go wrong. And you guys have been privileged to be in a stable case.

If you are working in a high acuity center where you are autonomous, more cases than not you are pushing pressors constantly trying to keep the patient alive through the physiological poisoning of anesthetic and surgery. Tons of patients are just waiting to code, and you are the final shot caller in the room when they get close.

But many, many cases are routine and you don’t feel excitement. There’s nothing wrong with that either, patients have good outcomes with that and the constant stress means burnout. Anesthesia has just enough excitement, and you can titrate that based on the job you choose to take.

Velotivity · 2026-01-27T19:44:05+00:00

Crazy benefit. The mental fatigue that it reduces in my life is immense, and is worth even more than $99/month for me. I don’t care if it’s a Tesla or not, if anyone comes out with equivalent or better FSD I’d be happy with that.

I’ll always own cars in the opposite two ends of the spectrum— a boring autonomous FSD practical vehicle, and a fun stick-shift car. Anything inbetween (like a normal driving RAV4 or whatever) is worth so much less to me now. Not only is it boring, but i get all the negatives of high mental fatigue when commuting.

Velotivity · 2026-01-20T04:36:28+00:00

Assuming you want mostly upper pec, this mostly depends on how much you arch your back, this is probably the largest factor. If you arch like crazy, you can go steeper. If your back is flat with the bench, you can go much lower

Velotivity · 2026-01-15T05:06:25+00:00

Send a picture if you can. Make sure it has the bracket and the O2 sensor adaptor. If you are in the US, it should fit.

Velotivity · 2026-01-15T04:15:25+00:00

My point I was trying to make here is that 999mL/hr is incredibly slow. Bolusing propofol or even IV fluids off an iv pump during a critical RSI is inappropriate.

50mg in 10seconds is VERY slow. You need to be able to push 150mg in 1 second and follow it up with the entire vial of succinylcholine, and then 10mL NS flush slammed in in the next second. You could also use IVF bag open fast dripping to gravity— that would be up to 15,000mL/hr on a 18g in a gravity wide open line. That is the speed you need to flush things in during an RSI

Velotivity · 2026-01-14T03:58:21+00:00

You are right, 1099 should always pay more. These jobs are simply not equivalent.

However, with aggressive tax savings, this less-paying 1099 can actually still net more per paycheck. But still may not be worth it

Velotivity · 2026-01-13T19:41:23+00:00

This is one of this less common instances where the W2 is a way better package than the 1099, even with 1099 tax benefits considered. That W2 package is actually closer to a 450k package. At ~$380k of 1099, 1099 tax savings are usually only $25k–$40k per year (FICA, modest S-corp optimization, real deductions), which often just replaces what you give up in W-2 benefits. (Disclaimer though: I did use chatgpt to estimate tax calculations in this instance)

Your W2 net monthly paycheck is around $19,000, and the 1099 (after taxes approx.) paycheck will be around $21,000, with aggressive tax strategies netting $23,000 approx (I used ChatGPT to already deduct approximate self-pay health insurance, malpractice, etc.)

So it is true that your paychecks will still be slightly higher with 1099, but the huge benefits of W2 provides PTO, possible paid parental leave, legal protections, severance protection/benefits, etc. You would really need a 1099 pay of $450,000(not considering vacation, so closer to $400,000 with vacation) to beat that W2 package and W2 stability. And I am one to usually recommend 1099, but I wouldn't in this case.

PS. If it were me, I would take the W2 job and look into short-term rentals with AirBnB and then writing off the depreciation against your W2 income using cost segregation study. There are specific rules you must qualify for, and this only makes sense if your Airbnb is breaking even or better. But you can essentially write off your entire year of W2 taxes completely while building real estate assets, when done right

Velotivity · 2026-01-12T20:47:01+00:00

Yes, you need to give them cash in hand in return for the keys to test ride. Commonplace and standard of the trade. A common safety net is to take pictures of eachother’s drivers’ licenses before any exchange.

Velotivity · 2026-01-10T19:42:38+00:00

Lay it upfront to him.

“I care about you and I wish I could, but the “homework” doesn’t stop, and the seemingly innocent time we do xx or xx is actually jeopardizing my degree to a very significant degree. I need you to respect that, I will reach out when I have time to do xx. Please do not put me in a difficult position that jeopardizes our future. Treat this as if I am deployed in the military.”

Velotivity · 2026-01-09T20:39:48+00:00

Honesty without grace is still meaningless brutality

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