Does CRNA school have a lot of math work?

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Hello,

I'm interested in expanding my career as a nurse and am considering the CRNA route. I've taken the prerequisite classes and I will say, math is not my strongest field, although stoichiometry can be fun.

I have looked at various CRNA schools' curriculums and see courses such as "Advanced Pharmacology" etc, but nothing that seems math heavy. For CRNA students or recent CRNA graduates, are/were the classes heavy on math, physics, chemistry, etc? I am perfectly fine with memorization and the hours of work I will have to put in otherwise.

Thank you!

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We had a semester long class of Chemistry and Physics of Anesthesia. It was mainly focused on Gas/Fluid Laws and their application to anesthesia; but there was some math. Generally the math is nothing more complicated than the med calcs you did in nursing school. Mainly division/multiplication and re-arranging equations to solve for different variables. Most complicated is something like "calculate the number of molecules of Propofol in 10 mL of a 1% solution". But once you know how to set the problem up it is simple division/multiplication (and they generally gave us calculators)!

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If you can do well on the math portion of the GRE, you will be totally fine in anesthesia school. Nothing in school is more difficult that what is on the GRE.

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