Difficulty of CRNA school

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Hello all CRNA students or current CRNA's. I was wondering if you could compare the difficulty level of BSN nursing school and CRNA school. Obviously graduate school is more difficult but how is it different and what makes it so much harder? Thanks so much in advance!

Specializes in critcal care, CRNA.

I have only heard of 2 schools which allow GPAs of 2.75 to apply. Not sure of any below that. I have known people over the last few years apply and interview at a couple of schools in Texas and not get in. They had the minimum GRE scores and decent GPAs and their CCRNs.

Specializes in Critical Care.

My school allows you to apply with a GPA of 2.75, however while in the program you are required to maintain a B or a 3.0 to stay in. If you drop below...See ya later !

- CRNA school is no comparison between nursing school. In nursing school they fill your head with a lot of stuff that you'll never use or need to know again. My program is straight down to what you need to know. No filler, no BS. CRNA school is exponentially harder due to the volume and depth of material you are require to know.

Thank you all for the info, the school I'm looking into said there is almost no chance of getting in if your gpa is below 3.5.

I am in my first semester now. It is exactly like everyone says. There is time for NOTHING else. I am grateful that my husband is now living as a single parent - I don't cook, clean, help homeschool the kids, etc. I stay at school till 5 studying. Come home, study till dinner, eat dinner, go back to studying until midnight. Get up at 0500 to study before school at 0800. Grad level physiology is all consuming right now, have not had a chance to hardly study any of the other 4 classes. So must find a way to decrease phys while maintaining grades, and be able to study the rest.

I knew it was going to be bad - I still did not think it was going to be this bad. i thought, well, I worked two jobs, had 4 kids, was doing rn-bsn at the same time as doing EMT-I, it can't possibly be any more time eating than that - negative ghost rider. The volume is too much, you can't take a breathe.

Another month of this should have us all punchy. People are already pounding coffee like crazy and taking caffeine pills.

I was another that found ADN and BSN easy. Gen Chem for a year was a little more study, same with Ochem. This is worse time wise.

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Thanks to the students who have shared their "day-in-the-life" examples. Also really appreciated the sample care plan on the first page. Lets me know what to expect when I get there!

Specializes in icu.

can you pls tell me what school are u in? because all schools are I know B is the pass grade..May be your school will be okay for a friend of mine that was just kicked out of the program because she had a 78% in one of the classes.

Specializes in SICU, MICU, CICU, NeuroICU.

In my program, one C puts you on probation for the rest of the program and 2 C's is an automatic dismissal along with one D or one F.

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