CRNA???

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I need some advice. I am a teen mother, planning to start nursing school soon. ALL of the ladies in my family are RNs and one day I was thinking to myself, what about becoming CRNA (taking a further step in nursing). I was wondering the hours of CRNA shifts, and is CRNA the best choice...NEED ADVICE PLEASE! After getting my BSN, should I further my education and become CRNA???? What's the Salary? Work Hours? If I choose this will I be able to spend quality time with my daughter as I would like??????

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Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.

Salary is high. Work hours can be anything from office hours (such as working in a plastic surgeon's office) to being on-call all hours of the day and night for an OB ward and everything in between.

Getting into CRNA school is very competitive and most programs require a certain amount of ICU experience (also very competitive to land ICU jobs right out of school) for admission along with having super high grades. There is nothing wrong with having CRNA in the back of your mind, but for now, given the challenges ahead of you, just focus on getting through the first leg of school, trying out the different specialties in which you will have clinicals and keeping an open mind. Keep your grades high (make As, certainly nothing lower than a B) in order to keep your options open as far as advancing your degree somewhere down the road and do your best to build relationships with the hospitals you do clinicals at to further the possibility of getting hired after you graduate. Good luck!

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Specializes in LDRP.

the hours are usually pretty good, but by the time you put in your hours with ICU, go to CRNA school, and get a job as a CRNA your kid may be like 10 years old. You will hae to work very hard, but if your heart is in it, go for it. i personally wouldnt go the CRNA route just for good hours, but to each his own. The compensation is good, but take into consideration the cost of all the schooling as well.

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

Worry about finishing nursing school first.

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Specializes in Trauma Surgery, Nursing Management.

It is always good to have goals. Nursing school will be difficult enough in itself, however. There are many challenges that you will face, but if you are a determined person, you will overcome all of them.

I thought about going to CRNA school myself, but only after I had been a nurse for 5 years. The thought of going through another 2 years of schooling with all of the extra time I would have to spend studying and rotating through clinicals is what kept me from going back. Yes, the pay is great and the hours can be good depending on where you find a job, but I found that my TIME was more valuable...and my desire for being a CRNA was only lukewarm. Not the best recipe for success!

However, I am much older than you, and time tends to change your perspective of life. If you REALLY want to achieve this, then keep that dream in the back of your mind as you go through your nursing journey.

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Specializes in wound care.
Worry about finishing nursing school first.

lol for real !!, just fyi ,.. your not going to get alot of time to spend with your kid during nursing school, focus on nursing school, your gona have to work for a couple years no matter what then your can reevaluate your position, crna school is extremely tough, really , it just makes me laugh thats your allready looking past nursing school like , yea thats no prob whats next

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Moved to the Pre-CRNA Inquiry Forum forum

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