anesthesia admission questions???

skipaway · Mar 31, 2005

Finally, does anyone know how the admission boards generally feel about travelling nurses?

Just make sure your assignments are challenging.

Laughing Gas · Apr 1, 2005

I am unaware of any advantage/disadvantage of MS vs. MSN. I just kinda liked the sound of MSN better :)

Travel nurses do not always get the hardest assignments. The staff is not familiar with your skills and alot of the time will give a bunny assignment as a courtesy. At least that is the way it in the places that I have worked. Be able to prove that you were recognized as a skilled person able to take the tough ones.

Our director did not seem to care if people had SOME online courses. There are two people I am aware of who did not gain admission with nearly 4.0's. The only obvious thing was that both of their trascripts had alot of internet classes. Not sure though. I am sure it varies greatly.

fungirl · Apr 1, 2005

I am unaware of any advantage/disadvantage of MS vs. MSN. I just kinda liked the sound of MSN better :)
Travel nurses do not always get the hardest assignments. The staff is not familiar with your skills and alot of the time will give a bunny assignment as a courtesy. At least that is the way it in the places that I have worked. Be able to prove that you were recognized as a skilled person able to take the tough ones.
Our director did not seem to care if people had SOME online courses. There are two people I am aware of who did not gain admission with nearly 4.0's. The only obvious thing was that both of their trascripts had alot of internet classes. Not sure though. I am sure it varies greatly.

Thank you for the info. laughing gas. I will be taking a 2nd semester anat. and phys. course online as my BSN only required one semester and all of the schools I am interested in require one year of a combined a/p course. In addition, since graduation I have taken biochemistry at a university. I travelled to hospitals in California where travelling rn's were mostly 75 - 100% of the staff, thus I feel I gained great experience and knowledge on my assignments. I currently am working at the hospital/icu unit in which I started as a new grad (travel assign.) I will be here for a total of 9 mos. working with familiar management staff and doctors. Hopefully that will be helpful, as I will be getting my recommendations from this facility, as they know my skill level the most. So, what I'm saying is, does this make sense, and am I making the right decisions. Any other advice??

ashfost, BSN, RN · Apr 1, 2005

" I currently am working at the hospital/icu unit in which I started as a new grad (travel assign.) I will be here for a total of 9 mos. working with familiar management staff and doctors. "

hi! just reading through the thread and noticed that u said u are currently working on a travel assignment as a new grad. is this the first "out-of-nursing-school-job" u took? i always thought that u had to have a complete year of experience before they let u take a travel assignment. haha, thats great! :rolleyes:

fungirl · Apr 1, 2005

" I currently am working at the hospital/icu unit in which I started as a new grad (travel assign.) I will be here for a total of 9 mos. working with familiar management staff and doctors. "
hi! just reading through the thread and noticed that u said u are currently working on a travel assignment as a new grad. is this the first "out-of-nursing-school-job" u took? i always thought that u had to have a complete year of experience before they let u take a travel assignment. haha, thats great!

Oh no, sorry I mistyped, I am on a travel assignment at the hospital in which I gained experience as a new grad. Sorry for the confusion.... You are right you have to have at least 1 yr. of experience for travel assignments.