Did you disclose your Plans for CRNA school

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While working in the ICU, did you disclose your plans for attending CRNA school? Why or why not?

I concur with the above poster TELL NO ONE.

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I love how everyone thinks every unit is the same lol...how about judge the feel your unit out...why be scared about telling people about your goals. You shouldnt care about what others think so much.

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I love how everyone thinks every unit is the same lol...how about judge the feel your unit out...why be scared about telling people about your goals. You shouldnt care about what others think so much.

Most nurses are the same tho. Even if they are nice to your face and say congrats. They will say can you believe XYZ is being a CRNA after only 2 years in the Unit."

It is nyeve of you to think that this stuff doesnt happen.

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Who honestly cares what they say about you? It wont impact you achieveing your goals. Im not niave thats why i said feel your unit out. Ultimately if you care what people say about you when you are chasing your goals you have some maturity to gain. Follow your dreams achieve your goals and anyone else who has nothing but gossip to try to start about you can get lost.

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Specializes in MICU.
Exacly ^^^ you will get max amount of patients, worst assignments, no help from your coworkers. Some of the most skilled, unstable vindicitve people in the profession. Keep all personal info to yourself.

Funny thing is they probably wouldnt be as upset if you were going to PA or MD school. Its crazy because you're going to CRNA school they think you're a sellout.

I see bedside nurses being nasty, rude, unprofessional to CRNAs all the time. Meanwhile they kiss butt for PAs. You cant fix it so dont say anything. This guy worked for 6 years and still got flack!!!!

So glad I did not work in this type of environment. From the beginning I told my manager I wanted to go to CRNA school when he hired me as a new grad.Everyone for the most part new that going to CRNA school was going to be my ultimate goal (My hospital actually has a CRNA program where at least 2 nurses get admitted too every year). There were those old nurses that sated "You need at least 5 years of ICU exp. before going" or "CRNA is too boring why would anyone want to do it". Will my advice is to be the best possible nurse that you can be! Help out with all admits, get your certs, be involved in your units politics. In my short 2.5 years of working ICU I was the charge nurse, precepted students and nurses, and became the full time rapid response nurse for my hospital. I recently had my last day of work and will be starting CRNA school next week. All of my coworkers could not be more happy for me. Don't hide your ambitions! Embrace it and own it!

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Ruby Vee: Wow aren't you salty! OP, this is why you don't tell anyone!

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I never understood why seasoned ICU nurses are salty that newer ICU nurses put in their 1-3 years and leave. This is a NATIONAL REQUIREMENT, if it wasn't a requirement, I can guarantee few CRNA-hopefuls would choose ICU as their starting point if they knew how demanding the unit could be. I started in critical care with no intention of anesthesia school, but after several encounters with CRNAs as well as shadowing and learning more from coworkers who were in anesthesia school I decided to pursue the career. I loved ICU and always will, but I have definitely seen the green-eyed monster show its face when nurses decide to pursue anesthesia but yet when someone pursues an MSN in education, CRNP, CNS, or MHA, no one thinks anything of it and yet all those degrees are the furthest away from critical care with most graduates from those programs never seeing the inside of an ICU or touching a drip ever again. I will agree with most people here, although it was not my experience since I had a very supportive ICU team and the reason I got in was thanks to their help and commitment to my training, I WOULD NEVER reveal my intentions to become a CRNA unless I was at the point where I needed LORs from leadership. Nurses like Ruby Vee exist in EVERY ICU and many will do exactly what they do. Give you patients with no drips, chronic trach and ostomies, they will sit you on psych 1:1 or float you to step down or med surg units, essentially limiting the experience you are getting and making it impossible for you to evolve and grow within your practice just because they have a Guardian of the ICU complex and feel they have been endowed with the duty of selecting who they feel deserve a "proper" orientation. If this is ever happening to you, don't hesitate to leave that unit and work some place else, you don't need that energy in your life.

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Specializes in CVICU.

I feel sorry for those of you that have to keep things on the DL about your plans for CRNA school. I work in a 60 bed unit and pretty much everyone knows my plans. I do occasionally get the SI or the screaming DKA but I look at as an opportunity it still learn from it instead of dreading the assignment. But I also get the 1:1 LVADs.

And to the older RN who hates pouring her heart and soul into the one going to CRNA school....that person maybe putting your loved one to sleep for a surgical case. Wouldn't you want to teach them the right way to do things instead of half-ass precepting them bc they are leaving soon?

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Agree to tell no one. It’s more exciting to keep a secret anyways

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Better to not say anything. People in ICU get super duper salty about the CRNA thing from new grads. Personally, I've always thought being a CRNA looked cool and knew that's what I wanted to do since 8 years ago. Of course that doesn't mean I think ICU is "beneath me", I loved my job in ICU. I just don't see anything wrong with knowing what you're interested in and having a plan.

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First time I worked ICU, I didn't tell anyone. Almost 3 yrs later after coming from the ER, I made my director aware and she was supportive. I put in the work, got my CCRN, volunteered for the hardest pt, helped teach review classes, got the opportunity to be charge nurse and took CABG/balloon pump/Impella.

I have to say that when I applied, it wasn't common knowledge. People only found out after I got in. For the most part, everyone has been supportive and genuinely happy for me. My first time in ICU they hated the idea of new grads in ICU so my goals didn't get into the air. I didn't talk about it. As someone said before, feel out your environment before you open your mouth because some old nurses take it personally and make it a vendetta to block your progress. I was blessed to not have had that type of atmosphere. Look out for yourself and be true to your aspirations. No one cares when people go on to be NPs as much as it hurts when they hear CRNA for some reason. IDK why it stings more.

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Specializes in Surgical, CVICU & Oncology, Med/Surg.

Tell NO soul about your plans of going to CRNA school. If anything tell them you don't ever want to go back to school. People immediately start acting & viewing you like salty Ruby Vee described up there whenever you tell them about your plans for CRNA school. I personally experienced this. You have to realize that most of these salty brilliant nurses also wanted something better like CRNA school but they couldn't make it; possibly life happened. They will never admit it but that's the truth! It becomes a bitter pill to swallow when you see other nurses being able to accomplish this very thing you couldn't do, sometimes after only one year in the ICU....let's face it, not everyone is able to quit their ICU RN job & dedicate their time, soul & money (loans) to CRNA school...kids come along, family members may be sick, other loans/mortgage, the lack of proper fiscal or conscious planning, the fear of change or unknowns related to the rigorous anesthesia program, bad relationships that shatter some, the lack of support from a spouse/family or the crumbling inability to ever survive on NO income & just dedicate your next 3yrs to full time school. & that's CRNA school for you. The reason no one cares about NP school, CNS school, MSN, or MHA programs is because anyone can do those degrees & you can certainly do it balancing family while still working FULL TIME. So for anyone to be in a position where they can actually think of, plan well & go to CRNA school is GOLDEN. & no one likes the golden child...they automatically default to thinking "you think you are better than them." Most times they don't consider what you had to sacrifice & go through to be able to make the decision to go to CRNA school & make it. All in all, majority view you different, are salty about it but certainly you'll get the support of a few who view life in a better lens, free of bitterness & are purely happy for another nurse's success. But ultimately the best default is to tell no one...& let's face it, the salty ones would be happy if you didn't get in or flanked out...because the reality is some do flank out or fail to get in, or leave the profession altogether after a bad malpractice lawsuit.... & as sure as you may be- that could still be you- so why tell anyone anyway. It's one of those things that's really sweet if you succeed but never a guarantee so why tell. Sorry to be a bit negative there but it's honestly the true reality.

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