Becoming a stronger candidate

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Specializes in Pediatric and Adult OR.

Hi all. I'm looking to apply to CRNA school, but I want to do some travel nursing first, so it won't be right away. Probably a couple years from now. I have no ICU experience so I will look to move to ICU after I settle somewhere geographically, and then apply after a year of that. In the meantime, I'm hoping to take some chemistry classes.

What are the best online programs for chemistry? It would be too difficult to take class in a brick and mortar school due to the traveling. I'd need to take a basic chem class (haven't taken chem since high school and I don't remember a lick of it) before the orgo and biochem.

Are there any good books to read on critical care nursing to prepare myself for working in an ICU, since I have no experience in that? (only med/surg and OR here). Certifications I should get? Any other ways to make myself a stronger candidate for CRNA school acceptance? All I have right now is working in an OR and practicing intubations with the nice anesthesiologists that will let me. :)

Thanks!

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Nice anesthesiologists? Just wait until you're a CRNA....

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Specializes in Pediatric and Adult OR.

I didn't say they were all nice. I said the ones that let me intubate are nice. I've been in the OR for 3 years, I know they're not all nice. Neither are surgeons, or nurses.

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I didn't say they were all nice. I said the ones that let me intubate are nice. I've been in the OR for 3 years, I know they're not all nice. Neither are surgeons, or nurses.

I'm surprised to hear that they allow you to intubate. Wow.....

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