Anesthesia Guidebook

The Thrive in Training series is designed to help physician and nurse anesthesia residents succeed in anesthesia training. The key to thriving in training is setting your trajectory in life based on your deep interest, learning to embrace deliberate practice in your craft, remembering your why and locking on to the hope that comes with […]

This is the first episode in a series that will focus on helping anesthesia residents thrive in training. This is designed for physician and nurse anesthesia trainees and will unpack crucial beta for helping you dial your game in during anesthesia training. In this first episode I discuss finding your why behind going to anesthesia […]

This is run down specifically on NBCRNA’s Continued Professional Certification (CPC) Program Assessment (or Exam) for CRNAs. Episode 64 was a 10-minute run down on the whole CPC Program – a quick overview. In episode 65, I did a whole hour-long deep dive on the program, including the CPC Assessment. This episode cuts out all […]

This is an all-new 1-hour overview of the NBCRNA’s Continued Professional Certification (CPC) Program for CRNAs. In April of 2019, I interviewed John Preston, DNSc, CRNA, FNAP, APRN and Lisa Kamen, CAE of the NBCRNA on the CPC Program for the podcast From the Head of the Bed. At the time, Dr Preston was the […]

This is a short overview of the NBCRNA’s Continued Professional Certification (CPC) Program for CRNAs. In April of 2019, I interviewed John Preston, DNSc, CRNA, FNAP, APRN and Lisa Kamen, CAE of the NBCRNA on the CPC Program for the podcast From the Head of the Bed. At the time, Dr Preston was the Chief […]

Dr Ian Hewer is the program director of Western Carolina University’s Doctor of Nursing Practice in nurse anesthesia program.  At the time of this interview, Ian had been a CRNA for 20 years, was an assistant professor in WCU’s nurse anesthesia program, held two master’s degrees – one in sociology, the other in anesthesia – […]

This is part 2 of my conversation with Mason McDowell, DNAP, CRNA. In 2014, he, along with his wife and 2 young daughters, sold everything they owned and moved full time to the heart of Africa… to the town of Beré in the nation of Chad, to provide anesthesia services at hospital with severe resource […]

This podcast and the one to follow are pure gems.  You’re gonna hear from Dr. Mason McDowell who in 2014, sold everything he, his wife and 2 young daughters owned and moved full time to the heart of Africa… to the town of Beré in the nation of Chad to provide anesthesia services at hospital […]

All right y’all, you’re about to hear from Kate Balzano and how she paid off over $100,000 in student loan debt in a year. There’s three reasons I wanted to bring Kate’s story to you: The first is that Kate is all around an amazing human.  I have the privilege of working with her on […]

This is episode 59 – How To Achieve Your Goals.  This is one of my favorite episodes and the content here is something that I come back to again and again.  I’ve listened to it probably 5 or 6 times since I first released it and every time I come back to this, I leave […]