Bellarmine University CRNA 2024

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I haven't seen a post for the application cycle for Bellarmine University CRNA program for 2024 yet.  Anyone else applying?

I got the call of acceptance too! I cried for a good hour, haha. I just made a facebook page for the incoming Class of 2027 so we can all connect before August! Invite anyone you know who also got accepted ?

? Look at this post on facebook https://m.facebook.com/groups/887605332967013/?ref=share&mibextid=WaXdOe

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Specializes in ICU.

They sent out waitlist emails today as well

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Specializes in ICU.

Anyone else get waitlisted? 

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Have they made all their calls? Anyone know?

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Anybody on the waitlist have heard anything or any updates ?

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Hi everyone ! I'm interviewing at Bellarmine next month. Any current students willing to chat with me?

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Current student here! Feel free to post the questions publicly on this thread 🙂

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doolahloo said:

Current student here! Feel free to post the questions publicly on this thread 🙂

Thanks ! How's the culture? Do you feel supported ? I know the program is pretty new but are you grasping concepts, doing well in the OR? How are they preparing you for your licensing exam, NCE?

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Great experience so far! Our nurse anesthesia faculty are the BEST. They're super supportive & truly are rooting for our best! We feel super blessed as students to have them.

As far as how one's functioning the OR/grasping the concepts, that's not so much program-dependent as it is student-dependent — it 100% depends on the individual and how much they put in the work to prepare. 

We'll be using APEX to study for the SEE, which is taken in semester 6 & semester 8. At minimum, we have to get the average score of the first-time NCE pass rate, which the last published one was 430. The benchmark will likely change each year as NBCRNA comes out with new NCE stats.

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Thank you so much 🙂 I appreciate it 

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Specializes in MICU.
doolahloo said:

Great experience so far! Our nurse anesthesia faculty are the BEST. They're super supportive & truly are rooting for our best! We feel super blessed as students to have them.

As far as how one's functioning the OR/grasping the concepts, that's not so much program-dependent as it is student-dependent — it 100% depends on the individual and how much they put in the work to prepare. 

We'll be using APEX to study for the SEE, which is taken in semester 6 & semester 8. At minimum, we have to get the average score of the first-time NCE pass rate, which the last published one was 430. The benchmark will likely change each year as NBCRNA comes out with new NCE stats.

could you share your stats when you applied (if you remember), what ICU experience you had, etc? 

debating on if I should move to another city to work in a larger ICU or maybe specialized ICU.

 

thank you!!

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truestar2 said:

could you share your stats when you applied (if you remember), what ICU experience you had, etc? 

debating on if I should move to another city to work in a larger ICU or maybe specialized ICU.

 

thank you!!

There are SO many ways an accepted applicant looks like, so while I could share my stats, I want you to know there is no cookie cutter formula to the accepted applicant. There are SO many types of candidates - this is the case in all cohorts, but I can confidently say so for ours. 

If you feel like you're not working at an ICU with highest acuity patients, my *biggest* recommendation would be to make that move —— Solid experience speaks for itself when you can instinctually & confidently handle various types of emergencies in the OR & not freeze up.  If you want to work in a specific type of ICU, go for it, but, overall, acuity is what really matters. Are you taking sick admissions/patients, with a really *solid* experience in handling patients on vents, multiple critical meds, lines, devices/therapies, and multiple clinical problems going on? If you already are, do you have multiple experiences shadowing, positions in leadership, research, recognitions, community service, etc.? How will you be a valuable asset to the CRNA profession & what work have you done to show that to the admissions committee? 

Those are the questions I would ask you regarding your candidacy. 

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