Usual Nurse Anesthetist schedule? HELP...10 points!!!?

What scheduling option is the most common? What is the schedule like?

I work with about 30 different CRNA's. Where we work we start our day at 7 am. The anesthesia goes to pre anesthesia care unit to check on their pt. They read the medical records of the pt. and check on their pre-op orders. Next the pt. is taken to the OR, this is when the anesthesia puts them to sleep.....they monitor the pt. during surgery, next its time to wake them up and take them to recovery. Time for another pt. and the same thing over and over again. Typical day ends around 5 if they are not on call. Work weekends, holidays, days and nights just like operating room nurses.

The CRNA I know makes his own schedule. He travels to several hospitals and works whatever hours he is needed in their operating room. Some days he may start his day at one hospital and end at another. I know he also works some out of his home doing back pain injections. He loves his job

When the OR is open there is a CRNA or an anesthesiologist there. Usually they arrive around 6:30-6:45 to pre their supplies for the first case, and then go to the pre-op area to see the first patient by 7am so they can get into the OR for a knife drop arond 7:30. The CRNAs on days usually work till around 4, longer if their cases run long. There are some relief anesthesia personnel, if the OR works a full 3-11 shift like many ORs at busy hospitals do. And there are always CRNAs on call from 3pm - 7 am for emergencies, usually at least one first call and one second call for back up or one CRNA and one anesthesiologist dependent on the hospital.

Most ORs close for holidays and usually close or decrease coverage for saturday and close for sunday. so usually the CRNA works M-F days with some call.