[sandman]

Alright....
First off, this board is GREAT. I appreciate everyone's input as I have learned a lot by reading some of these posts.
I will be attending my first interview in just under two weeks. This first interview is at Newman University and I cannot express how anxious/excited/thrilled this makes me feel. Actually, I am scared to death. Any advice????
Thanks in advance for all replies!!

[smiling_ru]

I thought this had been posted before, but could not find it in a search.

There will be several people in the room interviewing you. The director, the clinical director, the head crna for one of the groups, the MDA who is affilitated with the program, the director of the nursing program, and possibly a crna from another group. The only one who will smile at you in the interview is the nursing program director.
Each person will take turns asking you a question, once you respond you will get no indication as to the accuracy of your answer, you will get the next question from the next person.
The questions are largely clinical
Know your pressors/dilators/inotropes, when to use what and why.
They tend to focus in your area, so if you come from a neuro background you will get more neuro questions etc.
Know basic ventilator management, what various settings mean
Expect an ethical question
Usual questions regarding why you are doing this, what you expect, and how you plan to handle the stress etc.

Although, not very personable in the interview, it may help you to know that to a person everyone in that room is normally friendly and they all care about the students that eventually start, and do everything they can to facilitate your learning once you start.

I wish you the best of luck! It is a really good program, getting better every year. Good clinical rotations with no limits on what you can do. one of the students that just started clinicals this month said he spent his first day doing a AAA, Craniotomy and an AV shunt.

[megmermaid]

I interview at Newman in Feb!

---trust me, I'm nervous too...

[sandman]

Thanks for the advice Smiling!! Also, good luck with your interview Megmermaid

[CougRN]

I was hoping that some of you that have interviewed recently with any school could share some of the questions you were asked. I'm preparing for an interview and was hoping for some actual questions you have to share that you were asked.

Thanks

[Passin' Gas]

Go to search, type in interview questions, specifiy the CRNA forum, limit search to six months. Several threads were started and this question was answered multiple times. Some threads to look at are "interview for school in three weeks", "questions" and "CRNA school".

You will find the schools are different in their interview process and questions asked. Your best bet is to go in with a positive attitude and answer clinically based questions to the best of your knowledge.

PG

[CougRN]

I realize this has been discussed but is there a reason we can't revisit it again? There has been a new group of people interviewing lately so lets share the knowledge. Is there something wrong with that? I don't see why we have to be so vague and not share actual questions with each other.

Thanks

[gaspassah]

in interviewed in feb. contrary to many friends (8) in the last couple of years to get into gas school, i had no clinical questions. i had to do a clinical for my bsn that was 120 hours and i did it following a CRNA at the hospital where i work, the only questions other than about me or personal life or "why i wanted to be a CRNA" focused on what i learned in that clinical. 15 minutes start to end. actually not nearly as bad as i had built myself up for. to make a suggestion tho, i prepped heavy on resp, blood gasses, and drugs, ie dopamine, levo, phenelepharine etc and what receptors that affected. beta adrenergic etc. but once again, not one question on that stuff.

[seewhiterabbit]

So WHY do some of you want to be a CRNA? I really don't know much about it all and from my research so far, I cannot come up with any good reasons except that it all seems so challenging and it seems to pay well.

Please Respond.

Originally posted by gaspassah
in interviewed in feb. contrary to many friends (8) in the last couple of years to get into gas school, i had no clinical questions. i had to do a clinical for my bsn that was 120 hours and i did it following a CRNA at the hospital where i work, the only questions other than about me or personal life or "why i wanted to be a CRNA" focused on what i learned in that clinical. 15 minutes start to end. actually not nearly as bad as i had built myself up for. to make a suggestion tho, i prepped heavy on resp, blood gasses, and drugs, ie dopamine, levo, phenelepharine etc and what receptors that affected. beta adrenergic etc. but once again, not one question on that stuff.

[Rhon1991]

2 questions that come to mind from the old threads were:

how do you handle stress? (i think they meant in general, not necessarily at work)

as a srna, if you were told to do something a certain way (1 of 3 ways) but your own logic and textbooks tell you to choose another way, what do you do? i think that was phrased differently but that was basically the question.

if i think of any more i will post them. you will do FINE. good luck!!