Duke CRNA 2021

Justanurse999 · Nov 20, 2020

On 11/18/2020 at 11:13 PM, justtryingtohelp said:

Wow. All I can say is Wow.

Today I had my interview for the CRNA program... and let me just say what an absolute joke it was. The "panel" seemed way more interested in getting to know me as a person for an entire hour than hearing about my 7+ years of nursing experience with flight nursing sprinkled in. They didn't even seem to care that I'm a CVICU nurse as well as a quality initiative nurse, which for you non-CVICU nurses means that I probably know about ten times as much about swans and vasopressors as anyone on that admissions panel, let alone my knowledge of foleys and dependent loops.

And yet... they barely even scratched the surface of the clinical questions. Even more baffling, they could barely come up with a coherent answer when I asked the easiest way to become class president and be elected as a leader and mentor for the rest of the normal and underachieving students.

Oh well. I guess I'll wait for the acceptance letter and might just send back a few pointers on how to conduct an interview when I accept.

I came here to say that I was surprised by the lack of clinical questions, but this just floored me. I have heard horror stories of the attitudes of CVICU nurses, I’ve seen the memes, but I didn’t realize quite how true they all were. Until now. That amount of arrogance is unsettling.

Additionally, they probably didn’t want to talk about your extensive, almost unfathomable knowledge because they had already seen it on paper. From my understanding, as a lowly non-CVICU nurse(not much merit to that I guess) is that they want to get a sense of who you are as a person, making sure they would be able to deal with you and your enormous ego for 60-70 hours a week. If your interview went anything like this post, I am doubtful they came to that determination.

Hoping to have you as a mentor and leader next year, since the rest of us must be “normal or underachieving”. Best of luck to everyone!

Csicurn22 · Nov 20, 2020

Hey now!! I’m a CSICU nurse and I never understood why we have such a bad wrap LOL!! I’m not that bad, I have a great attitude! ? hoping to hear soon and look forward to us being classmates!! ??

Justanurse999 · Nov 20, 2020

13 minutes ago, Csicurn22 said:

Hey now!! I’m a CSICU nurse and I never understood why we have such a bad wrap LOL!! I’m not that bad, I have a great attitude! ? hoping to hear soon and look forward to us being classmates!! ??

LOL I’m sure you’re wonderful! Just had never seen that degree of arrogance before, it made all those memes make sense!? Hope we can be classmates soon!?

Dcrnapathway · Nov 20, 2020

How did everyone else feel like their interviews went? ??? It definitely was not what I expected, and really hard to gauge how I did. Anyone else feel the same?

nomad29 · Nov 20, 2020

Loving the differences in personality here. Yes, I am not quite sure about how I did during the interview. I was caught off guard on one question. Did they say Tuesday/ Wednesday next week will get the result?

V.3005 · Nov 20, 2020

@nomad29

I think we were all thrown off by that one question ? but I think that’s the whole point of it..to see how we act under pressure and how we critically think. The week of Thanksgiving is when we are supposed to know..so I would think that would be Tuesday or Wednesday before they are probably off for the holiday.

Justanurse999 · Nov 20, 2020

@Dcrnapathway

I literally said that out loud when I finished my interview. “I have no idea how that went.” It was definitely not what I had expected! So no clue how to gauge how well/poorly I did? And I agree, one question definitely caught me off guard. I think we might all be referring to the same thing. It seemed like a simple enough question, but I wasn’t sure what the “right” answer was that they were looking for?

PedsCI89, BSN, RN · Nov 21, 2020

I can also attest to the challenging nature of the interview. I'm a pediatric CICU nurse and I expected at least a few clinical questions. The first few questions were what I expected. Then, of course, they throw that curveball of a question, which I did my utmost best to answer as rationally as possible. But again, it did catch me off guard... at first, it seemed simple enough, then the follow up questions to that same question got me a bit flustered.

At the end of the interview, I thought I did quite badly. I couldn't get a read on the panel as to whether they were satisfied with my responses. It was overall slightly unnerving.

I guess I'll find out how badly I did in the next several weeks!

Asherah, BSN, RN · Nov 21, 2020

14 hours ago, BethanyRN92 said:

The nerve of the "panel" to not ask you about pressors or dependent loops!? I'm appalled. You're right, I doubt they have any cognizance of what those things are. To think they'd rather just get to know you, instead of asking about your flight nursing experience.

I feel like this person either:

A) Stayed logged in at work and someone posted this ridiculous testimonial on their behalf on a legit account,

or

B) Resident trolling for reactions.

Hard to tell ??

TL1025 · Nov 23, 2020

I received an acceptance call this morning!! Can’t wait to find out who my classmates are ? I can start a facebook group and we’ll figure out how to get people in!

Niastigmine · Nov 23, 2020

50 minutes ago, TL1025 said:

I received an acceptance call this morning!! Can’t wait to find out who my classmates are ? I can start a facebook group and we’ll figure out how to get people in!

Hi! I'm new to allnurses, but I also got an acceptance call this morning! Really didn't expect it to happen! Congratulations to you! ?

leeeesa · Nov 24, 2020

16 hours ago, TL1025 said:

I received an acceptance call this morning!! Can’t wait to find out who my classmates are ? I can start a facebook group and we’ll figure out how to get people in!

New here! Just wanted to add that I was also accepted (got the call yesterday!) and would love to join a facebook group if anyone creates one.