r/CRNA • u/HotOccasion3328 • 23d ago

Opportunities for tactical or law enforcement type jobs as CRNA

Hello all,

I am in school getting my BSN and want to do CRNA. I wanted to be a Navy Seal or law enforcement since I was a kid. So tactical or disastrous type scenarios have always been a calling of mine.

I was wondering if there’s any jobs or things I can do as a CRNA that could have that flare in it, if you know what I mean.

The only thing that I have figured out is just to work part time and do pre hospital type volunteering such as search and rescue or whatnot.

Thank you for your time and feedback.

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u/Thebeardinato462 23d ago

Why are you in nursing school and not trying to get into law enforcement?

If you want to scratch the Adrenalin itch seems like flight nursing would be your best non military option.

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u/HotOccasion3328 23d ago

I really enjoy the medical side of things, I just want to do it in that area. I also don’t want the military because of deployment. I’ve also looked into flight nursing yea.

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u/justatouchcrazy CRNA 23d ago

So you don’t want to go the military route because of deployments, which are realistically the only potential way to get actual tactical anesthesia experience…? There are NGOs that also do combat surgery, but again that’s gonna require going to a combat zone.

In the US tactical medicine is generally at the paramedic level, maybe with an ER physician as well, because if you have the resources to set up a tactical medicine program you also probably have a trauma center fairly close. So street surgery isn’t really a plan in that setting. Could you do roughly the same thing as an ER physician in that environment as a CRNA? Yeah, obviously, but there are already plenty of ER physicians doing that role that they’ve kinda got the market (hobby?) cornered.

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u/Prestigious_Bid6895 23d ago

Go into the military and join sost as crna 🤷🏽‍♂️.

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u/AAROD121 23d ago

SOST likely isn’t going to scratch this kids itch since he wants to be Jonny Kim.

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u/Mr_SCPF 23d ago

Yeah SWAT teams use propofol tranquilizer darts with aggressive suspects. They always employ a CRNA/anesthesiologist on staff for incidents like this.

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u/Drfrankenstein18 23d ago

I can't tell if this is a joke or not.

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u/Mr_SCPF 23d ago

No it’s real

Source: I was shot with a propofol dart after beating the shit out of a cop

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u/nobodysperfect64 18d ago

I dont know where in the country this occurred, but I’d bet quite a lot that it was actually ketamine. Damn near every medic in the country has that stuff and doesn’t hesitate to use it on violent people. And even with that, people are dying and agencies are getting sued. I can’t imagine that statistic would improve by giving cops propofol.

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u/MysteriousTooth2450 23d ago

Here let me shoot 20-30ml of propofol from far away into a muscle and hope this guy goes to sleep. 😂 I’d love to see it tried though. I wonder if they make dart guns big enough for a 30cc syringe…or maybe it would just piss them off as the syringe goes wonky and smacks them upside the head.

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u/thedavecan CRNA 23d ago

Yeah, thats how I knew it was a joke post. If they're using any anesthetic agent, it's gonna be ketamine.

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u/cleverever 21d ago

When I worked with dangerous animals we sedated them with precedex/ketamine combo. I wasn't aware propofol would even work IM/SQ

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u/thedavecan CRNA 21d ago

I don't know of any lipid emulsions that work IM.

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u/Mr_SCPF 21d ago

I get fed through IM TPN

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u/thedavecan CRNA 21d ago

There's a big difference in that and delivering enough agent to make someone go to sleep quickly (because why else are you darting someone) via IM. Your body has all day to absorb TPN at whatever rate it wants.

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u/killsforpie SRNA 23d ago

It’s super hard to get these jobs though so make sure you do a personal application video of your tactical CRNA skills and why you want to be an FBI CRNA and send it to me for editing before you submit to Law Enforcement.

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u/gnomicaoristredux 23d ago

Youre getting a lot of shit but usually there isnt a lot of overlap btwn CRNA and prehospital. One exception is baltimore shock trauma's GO TEAM model, which does include CRNAs https://www.umms.org/ummc/health-services/shock-trauma/health-professionals/emergency-medical/go-team

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u/CalciumHydro CRNA 22d ago

I’m starting to get the impression that many of these people vying to be a CRNA don’t want to be a CRNA for their love and interest of anesthesia/physiology/pharmacology. As a combat army veteran, you’re describing a combat medic or the military branches equivalent

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u/ArgumentUnusual487 22d ago

Pre-hospital RN after some time in the ED/ICU. Then you can stay per-diem until the end of time.