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  1. Starting school tomorrow

    Count your blessings my program is 32 months and a semester of that is stuff for a MSN ( GAG). I have been in school for 12 months and still have 20 to go. But the trade off was not having to relocate, I have a family and that would have been very to...
  2. CRNA school difficult?

    Volume of material and the advance level of the material. Most of your anesthesia textbooks are written by MDs and are the same ones the anesthesia residents use. However, they have had four years of med school before getting to their resident traini...
  3. ATTN: SRNA's with approximately 3.0 to 3.1 GPA

    Trust me if you look hard enough you will probably find a program that will accept you with a 3.0. Especially with all the new programs popping across the nation. Don't get me wrong, there are some extremely competitive programs out there that are ve...
  4. Some of the classes I am taking are at a similar level to medical school classes in my humble opinion. I base this on the fact that I just took some phys. with the medical students at my university (cardio. and resp. phys). However, as hard as the a...
  5. Does it Really Matter?

    Don't think it really matters, however I went the ADN/BSN route and wish I would have just got it done in one program. Those two programs were at the same university as the anesthesia school I attend. I felt burned out even before I got to anesthesia...
  6. Debt Load after CRNA School

    I am glad I am not the only one in the same boat. About 70k not counting the 17k undergrad. debt. I attend a state school and the tut. is reasonable, but the cost of living is what gets you. I also have two little ones at home. The younger you are th...
  7. critical care vs floor

    Hard to get away from body fluids while in the ICU, most I have worked in did not have aids. However, I would use it as a motivator to keep me pushing towards my goal of becoming a crna. And once you are a srna and then a crna you are not responsibl...
  8. Why CRNA

    I think it is a very good idea that all crna's schools require at least one year of critical care as a RN; not just because you will need at least some background in being around sick people, but also you get a chance to see if critical care is for y...
  9. CRNA Interview soon

    RLSU4CRNA: I am currently a freshman in the anesthesia program, so I will try to hit the high points of the way they interviewed last year. 1. They were only a few clinical questions, mainly some basic vent questions. 2. The interview seemed to focu...
  10. I agree with Kevin's post. In addition, I can remember last semster while taking an advanced general pharm class, our prof. mentioned that a couple of semesters ago many of the medical students were taking an herbal supp. to improve memory. The feed...
  11. 44 Years and still Going Strong

    Yoga: You go girl!!! Awesome.
  12. ER Nurse to CRNA

    If I had to pick one, I would choose an acute ICU area for the reasons just mentioned in the previous reply. I had a well rounded experience (3 years trauma one ER, MICU 18 months, 6 months SICU. While I learned more about grace under fire and thinki...
  13. Lsu

    Last years class (their third) had about a 150 applicants and accepted 40. The application pool this year will probably be larger, although in the anesthesia world that is not bad odds. The strong points, good anesthesia faculity, access to great res...
  14. RN Pay

    Twenty something a hour in most parts of the U.S.; Yes, you may have heard of nurses making 70-80k, but that is with plenty of overtime and maybe no benifits. Shadow some RNs before you do anything, also another thing most nursing schools will not te...
  15. Stamina, fitness & CRNA stress--how do you manage?

    Also learn to maximize your time, what I do is get on the stationary bike and read my school stuff if I am really squeezed for time. although, I have not started the clinical part of the program, that is coming in March. Now lifting weights, well I h...