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#110 – How we do interviews with Alison Kent & April Bourgoin

2024-10-3053:32

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 – […]

#109 – Leadership 101 – Why it Matters

2024-09-0139:16

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 […]

#108 – AANA Annual Congress Shout Out

2024-07-3107:13

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 […]

#107 – No Peace in Quiet with Keli Rueth, DNP, CRNA

2024-06-2943:01

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 […]

#106 – What we know about anesthesia school formatting – Cassie Capps

2024-05-3039:29

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 […]

#105 – The Impact of Precepting on Clinical Learning

2024-02-2134:15

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 […]

#104 – At-home cardiorespiratory events following ambulatory surgery – Chuck Biddle, PhD, CRNA

2024-01-2831:25

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 […]

#103 – Dexmedetomidine Deep Dive with Eliana Zimmerman

2024-01-2201:14:01

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 […]

#102 – Marriage + Anesthesia School with Brad & Madisson Marcum

2024-01-1346:11

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 […]

#101 – EKG Lead Selection for Perioperative Monitoring – Mark Kossick, DNSc, CRNA

2024-01-0737:42

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 […]

#100 – Vantage Point January 2024

2023-12-3123:05

Have you noticed how stoked podcasters get about their one hundredth episodes? It’s kind of a thing. If you want to hear interesting shows – check out the hundredth episodes. Or 200th. Or 1000th. Podcasters usually get super stoked about hitting triple digits with their shows and often set up the number 100 episode as some sort […]

#99 – The Effects of Anesthesia School Didactic Formatting on Resident Wellbeing – Cassie Capps

2023-12-2618:45

Cassie Capps, BSN, SRNA joins me to talk about the effects of didactic formatting in anesthesia training on resident wellbeing including stress, anxiety, confidence and academic performance. Her specific focus is on the mix of online versus in-person course work for nurse anesthesia trainees. Cassie overviews what the literature says about this topic and is […]

#98 – A Deep Dive on Ketorolac with Elisabeth Stewart, MSN, MSNA, CRNA

2023-12-0629:52

Elisabeth Stewart, MSN, MSNA, CRNA focused her Master of Science in Nurse Anesthesia project on the pharmacology of Toradol (ketorolac) and she’s here today to tell us all about it. Elisabeth hails from Wisconsin, holds a BS in Mathematics with a pre-med concentration and engaged in HeLa cell cancer research prior to going to nursing […]

#97 – Safety is a capacity

2023-09-1316:54

What up folks! This is another short podcast on the idea that safety is a capacity, not an outcome. This idea comes out of Todd Conklin & Sidney Dekker’s work on organizational safety where they discuss two ways of looking at safety: The Safety 1 Perspective or the old way of thinking is that safety […]

#96 – Virtual Reality in Anesthesia Education: SIMVANA with Peter Stallo

2023-08-0401:01:43

What up yall this is Jon Lowrance and this is episode 96 – virtual reality in anesthesia education: SIMVANA with Peter Stallo. This show is coming out in early August of 2023. First up: I want to give a quick heads up that our team from Maine Medical Center where I currently serve as […]

#95 – Could ChatGPT be a CRNA?

2023-06-0544:05

Quick 5-Question Post Podcast Survey HERE Today I’m joined by John Fratianni who created the content for this episode as part of his Doctorate in Nurse Anesthesia Practice at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. John earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Master of Science […]

#94 – Shorts – Cue Ball

2023-05-1713:55

All right what’s up folks this is Jon Lowrance and it’s May 16, 2023. This is episode 94 – and I’m calling it “shorts: cue ball.” And I don’t mean shorts like the things you wear but shorts like, this will be brief and there will be more episodes like this to come… you know, […]

#93 – OR Fires with April Bourgoin, DNAP, CRNA

2023-02-1238:481

In this episode, I speak with Dr April Bourgoin, DNAP, CRNA about operating room fires – how they can start and how we can respond to them as anesthesia providers. This show was originally released in 4 years ago in February of 2019 on the podcast From the Head of the Bed and was recorded […]

#92 – How to Prevent Periprosthetic Joint Infections with Brian McGrory, MD

2023-01-2844:07

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#91 – Vantage Point for January 2023

2023-01-2217:36

What up yall. This is Jon Lowrance. I’m still here. 😂 We’re still here. This is the first episode of 2023 and the first episode on Anesthesia Guidebook since October – October! I’m so glad to get back to the podcast and bring you this update. This is a re-cap of the last few months […]

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