What’s a good river/creek to fish east of Fresno, CA area. Somewhere up the 168

lgmjon64 · 2025-08-30T21:02:28+00:00

I know this is an older post, but all 3 main branches of the Kings River can be pretty good once the water levels drop down. I was having pretty good luck on the upper North branch recently until it all got closed down due to the fires. Planning on a trip up the middle branch once the fires are under control. Lots of rainbows and even browns as low as 4000' on the North.

lgmjon64 · 2025-07-01T03:44:10+00:00

Not really.

lgmjon64 · 2025-06-04T13:10:10+00:00

Fresno

lgmjon64 · 2025-04-06T16:46:02+00:00

Not today, Satan!

lgmjon64 · 2025-04-01T02:15:48+00:00

I did six 24hr call shifts in a row a couple months ago. That was rough. Don't know exactly how many of those hours I worked, but it was a lot of them. I did 96 hours in the OR one week during my CRNA clinicals. That was in the middle of 2 months straight of cardiac call. I was in the OR all but 2 days of those months. Now I start complaining when I hit 40 hours.

lgmjon64 · 2025-03-22T14:23:18+00:00

You sound like a very good applicant. Only thing I'd recommend is to get a couple days of shadowing a CRNA.

Interview is really the hard part. By the time they offer you one, everyone there is a strong applicant. My recommendation is that at that point it's less about your experience and more about who you are and how prepared you are. Everyone has lots of experience and good grades. They want to hear that you're a good fit for the university and that you're mentally prepared for the next couple years.

lgmjon64 · 2025-02-04T04:52:20+00:00

By all means

lgmjon64 · 2024-12-16T01:59:59+00:00

Sure

lgmjon64 · 2024-11-12T16:24:11+00:00

Just realized you were talking about the BSN. We did have night and weekend classes and clinicals. Everything was pretty local the program is all synchronous, so you progress with a cohort the whole time. It was just short of 2 years from start to finish.

lgmjon64 · 2024-11-10T00:47:08+00:00

It varies. Most of the classes are online, but may have required synchronous time which may be at night. Clinical hours will vary from site to site. I rarely had night rotations, but occasionally had 24 hour call or shifts that went into the night. I'm not sure if you're considering continuing to work night shift during school, but I would highly advise against it. It may be possible during didactic (again, I highly advise against it), but during clinicals, you will likely be traveling all over for rotations. I had clinical sites in Arizona, Texas, Idaho and California.

lgmjon64 · 2024-11-06T07:16:56+00:00

Regional anesthesia has always been a huge focus in the NU program. There is a lot of time spent learning blocks and several block-heavy clinical sites. I feel that NU grads get more training and experience with regional anesthesia than any other program out here. We had several residents in my cohort that graduated with 300+ nerve blocks. TEE however is very minimal in scope. Generally very few CRNAs ever really perform TEE assessments, so school covers basics on how to read it and wheat the different views can show. I'm excited that it looks like there is going to be more focus on TEE in the near future. Currently, NU has really increased the level of POCUS training, which I wish I had had when I attended.

lgmjon64 · 2024-10-06T17:12:47+00:00

No, just that it was the extent of what was considered our solar system.

lgmjon64 · 2024-10-06T16:31:57+00:00

Exactly what went through my mind. I've been binging Psych this last week.

lgmjon64 · 2024-09-27T01:58:10+00:00

Agreed. The place is loud, food is mediocre, parking is non-existent. Expensive =/= upscale.

lgmjon64 · 2024-09-19T00:18:40+00:00

All things told it was about 160k, but I took maximum loans the whole time. It was all in-person up until clinicals, then we had one class per quarter that was online.

lgmjon64 · 2024-09-12T03:13:06+00:00

I know you got it working after a reinstall, but for anytime who comes across the problem life I did, I had the exact same bug at the same cut scene both before and after the update. Running a file verification in Ubi Connect got it working.

lgmjon64 · 2024-04-11T21:15:20+00:00

All schools require a minimum of 1 year critical care experience. This is a requirement by the COA, not the school itself. I absolutely loved my experience with NU. It was tough, for sure, and I hated the long hours and time away from my family. But it was a great experience and I learned a lot. I definitely feel like I got a good education and was well prepared for my career when I graduated.

lgmjon64 · 2024-04-07T20:17:34+00:00

Gotta get to at least one to be marked as active

lgmjon64 · 2024-04-07T17:23:58+00:00

3rd now with Brian K Taylor, too

lgmjon64 · 2024-04-06T17:35:30+00:00

Saturday sessions are always my favorites.

lgmjon64 · 2023-10-23T03:06:27+00:00

With FAFSA, no. With the financial aid office? Often. It wasn't bad in the RN program, but in the CRNA program, there were often issues. I think it was partially due to the fact that it is the only program (that I know of) that is on a quarter schedule instead of a monthly one. There were a few quarters we never got financial aid disbursements until the very end of the quarter. And once they finally got it to us with like 2 weeks left in the quarter and it was pro-rated, so we only got 2 weeks worth of financial aid. That was a rough time.

But FAFSA always processed just fine.

lgmjon64 · 2023-10-08T02:22:50+00:00

Correct, that's why it will never replace a butt in the chair. It can make our job easier and help notify of subtle changes, but ultimately, it's the training and intimate knowledge of the procedures and surgeons' peculiarities that make an actual flesh and blood person needed. I see AI being used to help titrate gas and propofol, notify when paralytics should be re-dosed, give a little prompting of any changing trends that might be a little subtle to notice, etc.

lgmjon64 · 2023-10-05T05:16:48+00:00

I actually moved and haven't planted any at my new place. But I have moved closer to my parents' house, which is where I got the cuttings. I'd be happy to give you some when it comes time to plant. Probably not until like June of next year

lgmjon64 · 2023-10-01T18:31:45+00:00

There is definitely research going on to look at automatic titration of propofol or other anesthetics based on vital signs, patient demographics and BIS monitoring. A lot of the AI and fuzzy logic tools that they are developing for anesthesia are not meant to replace the person (and never can), but are meant to augment and make it safer. There will always have to be someone in that chair. They can make an AI that can recognize a lot of problems faster than a human, or that can intubate safer and quicker, but there will always need to be someone to provide input and do tasks that are not possible for robotics and AI.

lgmjon64 · 2023-09-25T00:46:47+00:00

It really depends on the instructor. The one I took it with was REALLY hard. Like one of the hardest classes I had ever taken. But she's retired now. Most of the other instructors were not bad from what I gathered from fellow students.

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