Students have lots of problems not the least of which is trying to cram huge amounts of material into a 7 to 10 lb head and have it stick.  What are the real keys to learning and making that knowledge part of you.  These are questions that I have been pondering for many years and I have come up with a couple of ways that work for me.

First I believe you have to make a commitment to what is important to you and your education.  Most of us have complex lives and can not simplify and dedicate to one thing only.  Even with busy lives family and multiple commitments you have to say, “This is my time.  This is my time to be selfish for OUR future and dedicate myself to this course of study”.  If you can not do this then maybe you have chosen the easier way that will not lead to the promised land.

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The “Shadow” experience for potential nurse anesthetist students is one of the critical preparatory moves that anyone interested in the field of nurse anesthesia must take before deciding that this is “it”.  What better way for a person to find out if this is a field that they would like to be a part of and be able to adapt to than to spend a day with a nurse anesthetist.  The experience in the operating room Shadowing a provider taking care of patients will not only demonstrate what we do in dramatic fashion but give the potential nurse anesthetist candidate an opportunity to be challenged to be more – way more.  That’s what “The Shadow” knows.

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