Who is starting CRNA school this Autumn?

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Just checking to see what members of the board will be starting school in the next couple of months. Or, who has already been going part-time but is starting full-time?

I am done with bedside critical care (doing a chair dance as I type that sentence - close as can be to the flashpoint in that job description at my present hospital). Anxiety about the road ahead is simmering. Suddenly, two-and-a-half years seems like an awfully long time.

Is anyone doing any preparatory reading?

I tried doing some chemistry reading early this summer, but it quickly dawned on me that 2 and a half years is quite a chuck of time. So, aside from work, I've been kicking back and spending time with everyone important. Actually, I'm spending the week in Charleston, SC- by far the coolest city on the planet!!! I promised myself I'd keep away from the internet while we're down here, but I just couldn't help myself. 5 more SICU shifts to go until we head down to VCU. Best of luck to everyone in persuing thier goals.

I am from Georgia now living in lovely Fort Worth, Texas. I am starting TWU in a little less than two weeks. I am just working on my tennis game and doing some leisure reading and I do mean leisure.

See you guys soon

Starting in two weeks @ UT-Houston. I spent the summer taking nurs stats and nurs theory to lighten my course load for the fall...I hope it pays off!!

Good Luck everyone!

Debi

sandman you have a PM :)

I will actually start in January in PA at Hamot Med. anesthesia program. I just found out but still very anxious and excited. I don't know if I should study now or do what most everyone else is doing...........RELAXING. Best of luck to everyone starting this fall.

goog luck to everyone, and by all means, stop lurking.

Craig

So, at this point, there are thirteen of us getting ready to start in the months to come in at least seven different schools.

Admittedly, school will be soon take over our existences and we will be busier than we imagined. Why don't we try to post updates every so often, though? I have decided that trying to talk to the second-year students is too depressing. If they paint an accurate portrait of their experiences, we have a long, tough, ugly slog ahead of us! Maybe it is better to get a sense of perspective from other students at the same point in other programs.

Dan Rather (yes, the TV newsanchor) once said, "If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all". Pretty deep for a guy that spent so much time on his hairdo, but it does provide an interesting insight...

Enjoy the rest of the summer, everyone!

And, PG, points well taken! Morgan and Mikhail was just shelved for the remainder of the summer.

And, PG, points well taken! Morgan and Mikhail was just shelved for the remainder of the summer.

Glad to hear (or rather, read) it! That book will be well worn soon enough.

Good luck in school!

PG

I am starting @ VCU in about 1 week--charles_thor will be a classmate. I haven't read sh*t, which feels great but I still have that nagging desire to go ahead and break the books out; but I am enjoying my freedom and the choice to sleep late and not do a DAMN thing with my day. Just moved to Richmond, and am enjoying the 2nd largest restaurant population per capita (2nd to SF!). Just getting home tonite from drinks in the Fan...Can't wait to start school though.

Good luck to those of you that are starting. It is a wise choice that we made and ten years from now we will be extremely thankful for the freedom this profession has afforded us....

It is a wise choice that we made and ten years from now we will be extremely thankful for the freedom this profession has afforded us....

A close friend of mine graduated from MCV in 1993. Loved/hated the program....it is a rigorous program that provides a great education and skills to practice as a competent provider when you are done. It's a tough program, as I believe all nurse anesthesia programs are.

Hang in there, it certainly is worth it as g8rlimey pointed out.

Good luck to everyone, it truly will be worth it!

PG

Oh ! You all have me excited! I'm starting school in the fall....but not CRNA school. It's something though! Good luck everybody !!!!

Brett

Brett:

I remember that excitement very well, good luck to you as well.

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