Advice from CRNAs out there??

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I am a nursing student working on my BSN, and am considering furthering my education in pursuit of my CRNA. Curious as to how difficult the programs are to get into, and whether or not working CRNAs are happy with their profession. I am in the northwest and there are few schools to choose from in my region.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

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Specializes in ICU, transport, CRNA.

If you are qualified NA school is very easy to get into. Pretty much everyone I know who wanted to got in. Good GPA, 3.0 or better, a degree, and 2-3 years of high quality ICU experience should do it.

I love my job. All of my CRNA friends like anesthesia and are very happy they did it. It does have it's own brand of suck, but much less so than staff nursing.

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Im curious what your opinion is on the field being saturated?

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Im curious what your opinion is on the field being saturated?

I am also curious about this.

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Specializes in ICU, transport, CRNA.
Im curious what your opinion is on the field being saturated?

I see no evidence of that at all. I am regularly contacted by head hunters and recruiters. All of the health systems here in the upper mid west seem to always have openings. My students all have jobs long before graduation, in many cases they are being sponsored and have jobs lined up even before starting NA school.

My friends who graduated this year started out at around $140K for those working in the cities and $180K for those working in smaller towns.

Here on Allnurses is the only place I have ever heard it said that the field is becoming saturated.

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Im not a crna, so take this with a grain of salt, but it looks like the job market varies from area to area. The classic example is Florida. There are 9 CRNA programs in Fl. That means a lot of new graduates every year, many of them wanting to stay in Fl, so there arent as many jobs available and the pay is also significantly less than in other areas. Also, some states are MDA controlled. The state I live in is mostly MDAs administering anesthesia. There are VERY few crna positions in metro areas in my state because they are all controlled by MDA groups (I dont care too much though because i want to work in a rural area, and crnas in the rural areas here are stackin some serious cheddar.)

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IndiCRNA, it definitely depends on your location. States like mine, where there are 6-7 NA programs, putting out 50+ students, are becoming very saturated.

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