Do CRNA schools care where you got your BSN?

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I was hoping to get advice from current CRNA students, recent grads, or anybody familiar with CRNA school admissions. I am applying to RN to BSN programs and the one I'm likely to go with is the University of Louisiana Lafayette. It's 100% online and accredited.

I have a few questions regarding this (I'm asking these from a CRNA school admissions point of view)...

I live and work in WA state...would it look weird receiving a BSN from Louisiana? (ie online...)

Is it a problem if there are no actual clinical components for the RN-BSN program? I believe there is just a capstone project completed at place of employment

As far as accreditation or reputation, would there be any issues that you see with attending U of L if it is regionally accredited and also accredited by CCNE?

My alternative to U of L is my own state University which is nearly $10,000 more.

Thank you so much any advice is appreciated!!

I finished my BSN online from UTA. I was just accepted to CRNA school... none of the schools seems to care. They just want you to have a good GPA.

Well, in addition to the 3.0, you have to breathe....at the same time.

I think there are some Florida and Texas schools that will waive that requirement.

I was hoping to get advice from current CRNA students, recent grads, or anybody familiar with CRNA school admissions. I am applying to RN to BSN programs and the one I'm likely to go with is the University of Louisiana Lafayette. It's 100% online and accredited.

I have a few questions regarding this (I'm asking these from a CRNA school admissions point of view)...

I live and work in WA state...would it look weird receiving a BSN from Louisiana? (ie online...)

Is it a problem if there are no actual clinical components for the RN-BSN program? I believe there is just a capstone project completed at place of employment

As far as accreditation or reputation, would there be any issues that you see with attending U of L if it is regionally accredited and also accredited by CCNE?

My alternative to U of L is my own state University which is nearly $10,000 more.

Thank you so much any advice is appreciated!!

Hello there.

I was wondering how are you liking University of Louisiana? I am looking at different school for my BSN online at this moment and am planning on getting into CRNA after I am done with my BSN.

I wanted to send you a private message, but I am too new so cannot do that. I am from Portland, OR and was looking at OHSU CRNA program and their requirements. Which school for CRNA are you considering?

Specializes in CVICU, CRNA.
Hello there. I was wondering how are you liking University of Louisiana? I am looking at different school for my BSN online at this moment and am planning on getting into CRNA after I am done with my BSN. I wanted to send you a private message but I am too new so cannot do that. I am from Portland, OR and was looking at OHSU CRNA program and their requirements. Which school for CRNA are you considering?[/quote']

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I called a couple of CRNA programs with this same question as I am also considering . They said that I don't input 3.0, because my transcript will just say "pass". 1 program said they will calculate it as 3.0, but another program said they know how to view it as a "pass" and understand that I did better than 3.0

Specializes in OR.

I am currently at ULL and I have called several CRNA schools, too. I queried most of my clinical instructors before even graduating ADN because I figured an online program wasn't the way to go or I had to go to a top rated school in order to 'get respect' from _any_ grad school (I've had 2 specialties in mind since starting, so I was taking a broad approach).

Everyone, including the CRNA schools have said they don't care about WHERE you get your BSN as long as it's accredited. The biggest thing, to echo others, is your science gpa, your base gpa and your ICU experience. And I also managed to wring out of them what GRE needed to be, min, to get in and to get an interview.

"BSN" is just a check box. The rest is more important.

Specializes in ICU, transport, CRNA.
3.0 will get you into many schools. I really wish people would quit acting like it is difficult to get into a program.

This!

I got my BSN through and was accepted at 3 of the 4 school I applied to. You have to realize that:

A) NA school is very easy to get into.

B) Nobody cares where you got your degree.

C) Unless you are doing NA at a big university with a school of nursing so that you graduate with a MSN or DNP they don't even care if you even have a BSN.

Only about 2/3 of my class even had BSNs. The other third had degrees in wide ranging subject from forestry, dairy science, mortuary science, English, biology and others.

What my school did care about what the quality of our ICU experience and science grades.

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