CRNA lifestyle - Page 3

tough crowd

I'll take wide bodied benzo's for 1000 alex

Florida, Nebraska, Tennessee, Virginia, CNA, LPN, RN, AA, CRNA, Midwife, Cosmosurg, Laser Nurse. It's ok to have goals, but you also need to have a focus. My suggestion to you would be to live life alittle, get some experience and then decide what you want to do. I can understand that you would like a career that pays well, we all do. Just have some discretion in how you present your posts.


ZAHMAN

AndreaJ
While your posts may be alittle directional in your thoughts, it is unfortunate that some people will take advantage of that and take the oppertunity to dismantle your feelings. These people have turned out to be like their predecessors, that is unfortunate. Keep your head up, ask well informed questions, and keep striving to do your best. Eventually your path will become clear.

ZAHMAN

I must admit the money is one of the primary reasons for me going the CRNA route. In fact, I said that in my interview. There are a LOT of people I know with the same rationale for becoming CRNAs. There is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to improve your/your family's lifestyle. I think some people like to sit up on their high horse and bark at & criticize other people. Don't let it bother you Andrea. You do what's best for you; just make sure that a career in nurse anesthesia is something you'll enjoy for the rest of your life. It's widely said that if you're miserable at work, no amount of money makes it worthwhile (not that I TOTALLY agree with that). All that said, almost everyone I know loves being a CRNA. If this is what you want to do, FULL STEAM AHEAD. Start working hard now. Don't let the negativity bring you down. The only way to find things out is to ask questions, keep doing so...

Hi Andrea, I see that ALL of my posts have been removed.
Sorry if I offended you. I never want to discourage young nurses, because it seems less and less young people are going into nursing.
I guess after reading all of your posts my point was to go ahead and get started now in your undergraduate work, because you can make decisions about specialties as you get more involved in school and are around people who specialize in the areas you mentioned.
Also I have been working alot the last few days and am short on sleep.
Please accept my apologies.

I agree, love the science. CRNA school requires you to constantly re-motivate yourself almost on a daily basis to sit and read sometimes hundreds of pages of material a day and then go power study it repeatedly. You have to really dig the science and want to learn it and understand it. The science will continually fascinate you and motivate you to keep on going forward.

Andrea...good for you!!! Congratulations on college and having goals!!!! I knew I wanted to be a CRNA when I was 18!!! I was a freshman in nursing at the time. Currently, I'm about a year into the CRNA program I wanted and I love it and hate it at the same time. (I'm taking a break from studying right now after spending 14 hours at the hospital today!). It's hard work and its a basic self sacrafice of your life for 2 years....the money will b e nice...but nicer will be the freedom to make some of your own decisions, enjoy your job, and provide patient care in one aspect that is controlled by what you think the patient needs rather than someone else. My deciison to become a crna was reinformced after talking with dozens of them and finding there was not one who did not love their jobs. I folllwed several and saw very little I did not like...I look forward to enjoyhing most of the aspects of my job...vs ICU nursing where I liked the patients hated most of the rest of it. WOrk hard, keep your eyes on the goal, talk to people like some on this board, follow some people....I'll think you'll do great!!!

Just an observation on my part....I am in Nursing IV of a five part ASN program...due to graduate in May 05. My class started out being very large, 112 students. Here we are a little more than a year later and there are about 65 left (For various reasons). Out of those students, there were 7 people that I know of, including myself, that had an interest or desire to become a CRNA. After clinicals and surgical rotations, there is only one person left that has actually stayed focused on that goal, ME!!! Everyone else has developed the C=RN attitude and many many people have told me that I am crazy since I want to continue to get my BSN, and eventually apply for CRNA school (I really think this poor attitude is a reflection of the local environment in which we live). I am focused on the initial goal of completing my A.S. in nursing FIRST and foremost, after that comes BSN while I am working critical care (working on securing an ICU position as we speak), then applying to a CRNA program. I keep the goal of CRNA in the back of my mind, but I try to stay focused on the here and now. So far, its been a hell of a lot of work and has taken a lot of dedication. Looking toward the future, its gonna take a lot more of the same and then some. But this is something that I have researched a lot and have a commitment to. In a way, I am glad that "most" of these CRNA hopefuls have the C=RN attitude now, it means less competition for me and just makes me a stronger candidate for acceptance to the BSN prgram AND a CRNA program. But the point is, find an interest that suits you, research it fully, set attainable short term goals without losing focus on the main goal, AND GO FOR IT !!!! Easier said than done, I know, but it has worked for me in many many cases and I hope it doesn't fail me in the future.