What up yall. This is Jon Lowrance with Anesthesia Guidebook. This is episode #110 – How we do interviews with Alison Kent, MSN, CRNA & April Bourgoin, DNAP, CRNA. In this episode, April, Alison & I talk about how we conduct CRNA interviews as a leadership team with our Department of Anesthesiology at MaineHealth – […]

What’s up yall! This episode dives into fundamental concepts related to leadership and casts a message for why it matters to all of us. Whether you’re primarily a clinical CRNA/physician anesthesiologist, resident/SRNA, a practice leader/manager, business owner, educator, researcher or policy advocate, leadership has a fundamental role in your day to day life. In this […]

What up yall!  This is a quick shout out to those of you headed to the AANA conference this weekend, August 2nd, 2024 in San Diego.   I hope that yall have an incredible time and meet tons of new colleagues, see old friends and have fun gettin’ your learn on.   I was talking […]

What’s up yall this is Jon Lowrance and this is episode 107 – No Peace In Quiet with Keli Rueth. I’m pumped to bring you this conversation with Keli where we discuss her first published novel, No Peace In Quiet.   This episode was so much fun to record and I think you’re really going […]

What’s up yall! I am back after a few months off from the podcast. This is episode 106 – following up: what we know about anesthesia school formatting with Cassie Capps. This is a follow up show to the episode that Cassie brought to us back in December on the effects of anesthesia school didactic […]

What’s up yall! This is Jon Lowrance and this is episode 105 of Anesthesia Guidebook – the impact of precepting on clinical learning with Jennifer Heiden. This episode is coming out on February 21, 2024. Jennifer Heiden is completing her Doctor of Nursing Practice in anesthesiology at the University of Arizona and this podcast is part of […]

Chuck Biddle PhD, CRNA is a Professor Emeritus of anesthesiology at Virginia Commonwealth University and served as the editor in chief of the AANA Journal for 35 years.  His anesthesia education & master’s degree are from Old Dominion University and he completed his PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Missouri.   Chuck is one […]

What’s up folks! This is Jon Lowrance with Anesthesia Guidebook and this is episode 103… a deep dive on dexmedetomidine with Eliana Zimmerman. This episode is coming out on January 21, 2024. Before we get to the show I want to remind folks that I’ll be speaking in person at the Encore Symposiums’ Autumn in […]

Brad & Madisson Marcum join me to talk about the dynamics of being married and going to anesthesia school together. They met in nursing school, had divergent paths professionally for a bit, with Brad starting nurse practitioner school and Madisson considering anesthesia school. They ended up sharing the same goal of becoming CRNAs and we […]

This is an incredibly special podcast that I’m thrilled to pull forward from our old show, From the Head of the Bed, to Anesthesia Guidebook. I love that this episode is number 101 because EKG lead selection should be 101-level knowledge for anesthesia providers, yet so many folks have not mastered this fundamental knowledge as […]