FranU CRNA 2021

bgibbs93 · Aug 17, 2020

That’s what I was wondering I got a reminder email and there was only one name on there. I didn’t know if it was a one on one or panel interview.

BSNtoCRNA2021, BSN, RN · Aug 18, 2020

1 hour ago, bgibbs93 said:
That’s what I was wondering I got a reminder email and there was only one name on there. I didn’t know if it was a one on one or panel interview.

I feel like it would be more comfortable just Interviewing with one. Which one did yours say?

rattlernurse15, BSN · Aug 18, 2020

Anyone take the EQ I test yet? & do we see the results afterwards. I know it bases our ability to emotionally relate & make ethical sound decisions

BSNtoCRNA2021, BSN, RN · Aug 18, 2020

I took mine but I didn’t get a result. Are we suppose to?

rattlernurse15, BSN · Aug 18, 2020

I wasnt sure if we got results or not...wishing everyone the best with interviews also!!

BSNtoCRNA2021, BSN, RN · Aug 18, 2020

Good luck to you as well!

RXMurse, BSN, RN · Aug 20, 2020

Has anyone had their interview yet? How are y'all preparing? Im looking at CCRN and CV specific stuff - and I found a list of frequently asked questions:

§ Why do you want to be a CRNA?

§ What would make you a successful CRNA?

§ How do you handle stress?

§ What kind of patients do you take care of? Your favorite and why?

§ Tell me about a typical pt in your ICU; what kind of drips would he/she be on? Then be prepared to discuss them!

§ Tell us about your work experience

§ What are your roles and responsibilities?

§ How do you describe success?

§ Do you foresee any barriers to your education? (finances, time commitments)

§ What does a CRNA do? How do you think your role as an ICU nurse relates to the role and responsibilities of a CRNA?

§ Where do you want to be in 5 years?

§ Who (within the field) has influenced you the most? What do you consider the biggest issue facing the profession today? Next 5/10 years?

§ How do you feel that your background will influence your research, clinical work and areas of interest?

§ How do you feel about giving up a paying job for several years?

§ What is your strongest trait that will help you in your academic/professional career?

§ What is your most important weakness that you will struggle with, if any, toward this profession?

§ Tell me one of your greatest accomplishments? And at your last job?

§ Give an example of where you showed leadership.

§ Give an example of community service.

§ Give an example of when you worked on a team.

§ Give me an example of your problem solving.

§ What have you done to develop or change in the last few years?

§ How do others see you?

§ Do you work well under pressure? Give an example.

§ What do you enjoy most about your job?

§ What do you want written on your tombstone?

§ Do you have a facebook page?

§ Have you known anyone who has been penalized for inappropriate use of social media websites? Explain.

§ What are your career plans?

§ Do you always sit in the same seat when at a movie?

§ What do you see as your role?

§ What would you do if you received a bad review that you felt was untrue?

§ What are your strengths/weaknesses?

§ What is the role of a CRNA/What do you see as your role as a CRNA?

§ How do you relax if you’re feeling stressed?

§ What are your two most important achievements as a nurse?

§ Why did you choose this career field over other advanced practice fields?

§ What attributes make you suitable for this career field?

§ How have I prepared for CRNA School?

§ What is your single strongest personality trait that will help you in your academic and professional career as a CRNA?

§ What is your most important weakness that you will struggle with during your academic and professional career?

§ As a member of a small and elite profession, what obligations will you have, if any, toward this profession?

§ What is your family’s commitment; is your spouse fully supportive of this effort?

§ Who (within the field) has influenced you the most?

§ With what theoretical/research/philosophical approaches to the field do you identify?

§ Tell us about your research projects

§ How do you feel that your background will influence your research, clinical work and areas of interest?

§ How do you feel about giving up a paying job for several years?

§ What financial preparations have you made to ensure that you will not have financial difficulties during anesthesia school?

§ What is your most important weakness that you will struggle with, if any, toward this profession?

§ Give me an example of your problem solving.

§ What have you done to develop or change in the last few years?

§ How do others see you?

§ What do you enjoy most about your job?

§ What do you want written on your tombstone?

§ Tell me about your proudest achievement

§ Give me an example of a time when you had to think out of the box

§ How prepared are you to be a novice again? How well do you handle criticism?

§ How big is your unit?

§ Have you shadowed a CRNA? Where? Please describe that experience?

§ What is your support system like?

§ What is it about Anesthesia?

§ If you could be any animal, what would it be, and why?

§ If you could have a meal with any 3 people in the world, who would they be?

§ If I asked your boss to tell me your weaknesses, what would he tell me?

§ What do your enemies say about you?

§ What is your favorite color?

§ If you were a number, what would it be?

§ Why did you decide to go from being a _______ to being a nurse to applying to CRNA school?

§ What is your single strongest personality trait that will help you in your academic and professional career as a CRNA?

§ Tell me about a time when you were working with someone who wasn't pulling their weight, and they had a different value system than yours. How did you deal with this person?

§ Tell me about a time when you had an ethical dilemma at work. What did you do?

§ Tell me about a time when you felt it was you against everyone else. You thought you were right and that everyone else was wrong. What did you do?

§ If you saw one of your fellow students or colleagues using drugs outside of work/classroom, what would you do?

§ What if in clinical someone told you were taping your IV wrong. What would you do?

§ If you are a student and your attending anesthesiologist is checking his facebook page on his cell phone during the case, do you report him to his superior?

§ what would you do if an anesthesiologist wanted to wake up a patient before you felt it was safe to do so

§ Discuss a mistake you made and how you resolved it...

§ What would you do if you saw a fellow student with drugs?

§ What do you believe your role will be in this career field?

§ Do you have a role model in this career field?

§ What motivates you to pursue an advanced nurse practitioner role? Why did you choose this career field?

§ What are your short and long term goals? Where do you see yourself in five or ten years from now?

§ What strengths do you bring to this program?

§ Describe personal, professional, and educational attributes that make you uniquely suitable for this career field.

§ What changes in your personal or professional lifestyle do you anticipate as a graduate student and as an advanced nurse practitioner? How have you planned for this?

§ Tell me about a time when you were working with someone who wasn’t pulling their weight, and they had a different value system than yours. How did you deal with this person?

§ Tell me about a time when you failed. What happened, and how did you recover?

§ Tell me about a time when you had an ethical dilemma at work. What did you do?

§ Tell me about a time when you felt it was you against everyone else. You thought you were right and that everyone else was wrong. What did you do?

§ What do you consider the biggest issue facing the profession today? Next 5/10 years?

§ If I told you to do the IV "this" way, and you didn't want to do it, what would you do?

§ Last time you had confrontation with MD and how you smoothed it over

§ Tell me about a time when you had to manage a difficult clinical situation; describe the most critical patient you've had

§ Tell me about a time when you failed. What happened, and how did you recover?

§ Swan Numbers

§ Receptor information

§ Dopaminergic receptors

§ Beta 1 effects

§ Beta 2 effects

§ Alpha 1 effects

§ Alpha 2 effects

§ Epinephrine pharmacology

§ Norepinephrine pharmacology

§ Vasopressin pharmacology

§ Dopamine pharmacology

§ Dobutamine pharmacology

§ Milrinone pharmacology

§ Nipride pharmacology

§ Nicardipine pharmacology

§ Nitroglycerin pharmacology

§ Esmolol pharmacology

§ Prostaglandin pharmacology

§ Nitric Oxide pharmacology

§ Fentanyl pharmacology

§ Versed pharmacology

§ Ketamine pharmacology

§ Etomidate pharmacology

§ Propofol pharmacology

§ Precedex pharmacology

§ Labetalol pharmacology

§ Discuss any experience you have had with muscle relaxants.

§ What is the difference between polarizing vs non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs?

§ Identifying Myocardial infarctions on a 12 lead EKG

§ What are appropriate interventions for cardiogenic shock?

§ What increases ICP? What is the normal ICP?

§ Describe the difference between 1st degree heart block and 2nd degree type 1 and type 2 heart block.

§ What is the FIRST thing you would do if you looked up and saw 2nd degree type 2 heart block and the BP was low?

§ How does Atropine work?

§ How does Digoxin work?

§ An 85 kg man is sitting up in bed eating lunch, you look in and he isn't breathing, what’s the first thing you do?

§ What was your last difficult patient? What made it difficult and what did you do?

§ describe a patient scenario where you had to critically think

§ What are the symptoms of sepsis?

§ Did you pass your NCLEX on the first try?

§ What’s the difference between a high vent alarm vs. a low?

§ Tell us about a patient you took care of recently?

§ Tell us about your charge RN experience...

§ Here's a diagram of a Heart, tell us about the insertion of a Swan, what are normal pressures for different chambers of heart, and how to tell if in the PA.

§ Look at an EKG strip and identify Bigeminy

§ Know your ABG interpretation

§ Placement of pulmonary artery catheter (chambers of heart)

§ Complications of blood transfusions?

§ Are there preservatives in PRBC?

§ EKG changes with hyperkalemia

§ What is thrombocytopenia? Normal Platelet numbers?

§ Is an Action potential? Discuss sodium and potassium in ECF, ICF, depolarization, hyperpolarization

§ Dead space, shunting related to alveolar oxygen exchange

§ Please explain the difference between SA02 and PA02?

§ Tell me everything you know about hemoglobin.

§ Discuss the pharmacologic differences between dopamine and dobutamine

§ How do you wean a patient from the Ventilator?

§ What would you do for a patient that comes in with a M.I.? Why?

§ Select a vasoactive medication and describe how it works on the molecular level.

§ Hemodynamics

§ swan waveforms

§ EKG strips

§ Differentiating shock

§ ETCO2

§ Describe the coagulation cascade

§ What s/s do you see with cardiac tamponade? Why?

§ What receptors does (insert pressor, vasodilator, etc...) work at? How?

§ How do you calculate SVRI?

§ Discuss ACLS protocols

§ Please explain the difference between SA02 and PA02?

§ What is Mv02?

§ Describe dif. b/t 1st, 2nd degree type 1 and 2 and 3rd degree heart blocks.

§ Do you use atropine on patient with heart Transplant

§ Why our program?

§ What questions do you have for us?

§ If you had to pick a topic for a master's thesis or doctoral dissertation, what might it be?

§ What do you know about XYZ School and our program?

§ How do you think you will fit into the program?

§ How will you be an asset to this program?

§ What are your expectations of the program?

§ What will you do if you don’t get into the program?

§ Why did you choose this program?

§ Why should we choose you over other prospective applicants?

§ Do you have any questions about the roles and functions of a nurse in this career field? Have the questions ready for the panel in case they offer.

§ How do you think you will fit into the program?

§ Why should we pick you over someone else?

§ What can you do for us that other candidates can’t?

§ What makes you think you’re able to complete this type of program? What do you think it takes?

§ What are current political issues in the field of anesthesia?

§ Current CRNA/MDA/AA political issues

BSNtoCRNA2021, BSN, RN · Aug 20, 2020

8 minutes ago, RXMurse said:
Has anyone had their interview yet? How are y'all preparing? Im looking at CCRN and CV specific stuff - and I found a list of frequently asked questions:
§ Why do you want to be a CRNA?
§ What would make you a successful CRNA?
§ How do you handle stress?
§ What kind of patients do you take care of? Your favorite and why?
§ Tell me about a typical pt in your ICU; what kind of drips would he/she be on? Then be prepared to discuss them!
§ Tell us about your work experience
§ What are your roles and responsibilities?
§ How do you describe success?
§ Do you foresee any barriers to your education? (finances, time commitments)
§ What does a CRNA do? How do you think your role as an ICU nurse relates to the role and responsibilities of a CRNA?
§ Where do you want to be in 5 years?
§ Who (within the field) has influenced you the most? What do you consider the biggest issue facing the profession today? Next 5/10 years?
§ How do you feel that your background will influence your research, clinical work and areas of interest?
§ How do you feel about giving up a paying job for several years?
§ What is your strongest trait that will help you in your academic/professional career?
§ What is your most important weakness that you will struggle with, if any, toward this profession?
§ Tell me one of your greatest accomplishments? And at your last job?
§ Give an example of where you showed leadership.
§ Give an example of community service.
§ Give an example of when you worked on a team.
§ Give me an example of your problem solving.
§ What have you done to develop or change in the last few years?
§ How do others see you?
§ Do you work well under pressure? Give an example.
§ What do you enjoy most about your job?
§ What do you want written on your tombstone?
§ Do you have a facebook page?
§ Have you known anyone who has been penalized for inappropriate use of social media websites? Explain.
§ What are your career plans?
§ Do you always sit in the same seat when at a movie?
§ What do you see as your role?
§ What would you do if you received a bad review that you felt was untrue?
§ What are your strengths/weaknesses?
§ What is the role of a CRNA/What do you see as your role as a CRNA?
§ How do you relax if you’re feeling stressed?
§ What are your two most important achievements as a nurse?
§ Why did you choose this career field over other advanced practice fields?
§ What attributes make you suitable for this career field?
§ How have I prepared for CRNA School?
§ What is your single strongest personality trait that will help you in your academic and professional career as a CRNA?
§ What is your most important weakness that you will struggle with during your academic and professional career?
§ As a member of a small and elite profession, what obligations will you have, if any, toward this profession?
§ What is your family’s commitment; is your spouse fully supportive of this effort?
§ Who (within the field) has influenced you the most?
§ With what theoretical/research/philosophical approaches to the field do you identify?
§ Tell us about your research projects
§ How do you feel that your background will influence your research, clinical work and areas of interest?
§ How do you feel about giving up a paying job for several years?
§ What financial preparations have you made to ensure that you will not have financial difficulties during anesthesia school?
§ What is your most important weakness that you will struggle with, if any, toward this profession?
§ Give me an example of your problem solving.
§ What have you done to develop or change in the last few years?
§ How do others see you?
§ What do you enjoy most about your job?
§ What do you want written on your tombstone?
§ Tell me about your proudest achievement
§ Give me an example of a time when you had to think out of the box
§ How prepared are you to be a novice again? How well do you handle criticism?
§ How big is your unit?
§ Have you shadowed a CRNA? Where? Please describe that experience?
§ What is your support system like?
§ What is it about Anesthesia?
§ If you could be any animal, what would it be, and why?
§ If you could have a meal with any 3 people in the world, who would they be?
§ If I asked your boss to tell me your weaknesses, what would he tell me?
§ What do your enemies say about you?
§ What is your favorite color?
§ If you were a number, what would it be?
§ Why did you decide to go from being a _______ to being a nurse to applying to CRNA school?
§ What is your single strongest personality trait that will help you in your academic and professional career as a CRNA?
§ Tell me about a time when you were working with someone who wasn't pulling their weight, and they had a different value system than yours. How did you deal with this person?
§ Tell me about a time when you had an ethical dilemma at work. What did you do?
§ Tell me about a time when you felt it was you against everyone else. You thought you were right and that everyone else was wrong. What did you do?
§ If you saw one of your fellow students or colleagues using drugs outside of work/classroom, what would you do?
§ What if in clinical someone told you were taping your IV wrong. What would you do?
§ If you are a student and your attending anesthesiologist is checking his facebook page on his cell phone during the case, do you report him to his superior?
§ what would you do if an anesthesiologist wanted to wake up a patient before you felt it was safe to do so
§ Discuss a mistake you made and how you resolved it...
§ What would you do if you saw a fellow student with drugs?
§ What do you believe your role will be in this career field?
§ Do you have a role model in this career field?
§ What motivates you to pursue an advanced nurse practitioner role? Why did you choose this career field?
§ What are your short and long term goals? Where do you see yourself in five or ten years from now?
§ What strengths do you bring to this program?
§ Describe personal, professional, and educational attributes that make you uniquely suitable for this career field.
§ What changes in your personal or professional lifestyle do you anticipate as a graduate student and as an advanced nurse practitioner? How have you planned for this?
§ Tell me about a time when you were working with someone who wasn’t pulling their weight, and they had a different value system than yours. How did you deal with this person?
§ Tell me about a time when you failed. What happened, and how did you recover?
§ Tell me about a time when you had an ethical dilemma at work. What did you do?
§ Tell me about a time when you felt it was you against everyone else. You thought you were right and that everyone else was wrong. What did you do?
§ What do you consider the biggest issue facing the profession today? Next 5/10 years?
§ If I told you to do the IV "this" way, and you didn't want to do it, what would you do?
§ Last time you had confrontation with MD and how you smoothed it over
§ Tell me about a time when you had to manage a difficult clinical situation; describe the most critical patient you've had
§ Tell me about a time when you failed. What happened, and how did you recover?
§ Swan Numbers
§ Receptor information
§ Dopaminergic receptors
§ Beta 1 effects
§ Beta 2 effects
§ Alpha 1 effects
§ Alpha 2 effects
§ Epinephrine pharmacology
§ Norepinephrine pharmacology
§ Vasopressin pharmacology
§ Dopamine pharmacology
§ Dobutamine pharmacology
§ Milrinone pharmacology
§ Nipride pharmacology
§ Nicardipine pharmacology
§ Nitroglycerin pharmacology
§ Esmolol pharmacology
§ Prostaglandin pharmacology
§ Nitric Oxide pharmacology
§ Fentanyl pharmacology
§ Versed pharmacology
§ Ketamine pharmacology
§ Etomidate pharmacology
§ Propofol pharmacology
§ Precedex pharmacology
§ Labetalol pharmacology
§ Discuss any experience you have had with muscle relaxants.
§ What is the difference between polarizing vs non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocking drugs?
§ Identifying Myocardial infarctions on a 12 lead EKG
§ What are appropriate interventions for cardiogenic shock?
§ What increases ICP? What is the normal ICP?
§ Describe the difference between 1st degree heart block and 2nd degree type 1 and type 2 heart block.
§ What is the FIRST thing you would do if you looked up and saw 2nd degree type 2 heart block and the BP was low?
§ How does Atropine work?
§ How does Digoxin work?
§ An 85 kg man is sitting up in bed eating lunch, you look in and he isn't breathing, what’s the first thing you do?
§ What was your last difficult patient? What made it difficult and what did you do?
§ describe a patient scenario where you had to critically think
§ What are the symptoms of sepsis?
§ Did you pass your NCLEX on the first try?
§ What’s the difference between a high vent alarm vs. a low?
§ Tell us about a patient you took care of recently?
§ Tell us about your charge RN experience...
§ Here's a diagram of a Heart, tell us about the insertion of a Swan, what are normal pressures for different chambers of heart, and how to tell if in the PA.
§ Look at an EKG strip and identify Bigeminy
§ Know your ABG interpretation
§ Placement of pulmonary artery catheter (chambers of heart)
§ Complications of blood transfusions?
§ Are there preservatives in PRBC?
§ EKG changes with hyperkalemia
§ What is thrombocytopenia? Normal Platelet numbers?
§ Is an Action potential? Discuss sodium and potassium in ECF, ICF, depolarization, hyperpolarization
§ Dead space, shunting related to alveolar oxygen exchange
§ Please explain the difference between SA02 and PA02?
§ Tell me everything you know about hemoglobin.
§ Discuss the pharmacologic differences between dopamine and dobutamine
§ How do you wean a patient from the Ventilator?
§ What would you do for a patient that comes in with a M.I.? Why?
§ Select a vasoactive medication and describe how it works on the molecular level.
§ Hemodynamics
§ swan waveforms
§ EKG strips
§ Differentiating shock
§ ETCO2
§ Describe the coagulation cascade
§ What s/s do you see with cardiac tamponade? Why?
§ What receptors does (insert pressor, vasodilator, etc...) work at? How?
§ How do you calculate SVRI?
§ Discuss ACLS protocols
§ Please explain the difference between SA02 and PA02?
§ What is Mv02?
§ Describe dif. b/t 1st, 2nd degree type 1 and 2 and 3rd degree heart blocks.
§ Do you use atropine on patient with heart Transplant
§ Why our program?
§ What questions do you have for us?
§ If you had to pick a topic for a master's thesis or doctoral dissertation, what might it be?
§ What do you know about XYZ School and our program?
§ How do you think you will fit into the program?
§ How will you be an asset to this program?
§ What are your expectations of the program?
§ What will you do if you don’t get into the program?
§ Why did you choose this program?
§ Why should we choose you over other prospective applicants?
§ Do you have any questions about the roles and functions of a nurse in this career field? Have the questions ready for the panel in case they offer.
§ How do you think you will fit into the program?
§ Why should we pick you over someone else?
§ What can you do for us that other candidates can’t?
§ What makes you think you’re able to complete this type of program? What do you think it takes?
§ What are current political issues in the field of anesthesia?
§ Current CRNA/MDA/AA political issues

Is this specific questions from the program or just that you’ve found online? I’m studying a lot of the same. My interview isn’t until September! When is yours?

RXMurse, BSN, RN · Aug 20, 2020

It’s just what I found and have put together

BSNtoCRNA2021, BSN, RN · Aug 20, 2020

1 minute ago, RXMurse said:
It’s just what I found and have put together

I found very similar questions like those on previous threads. That’s how I’ve been trying to study. I think you’d be headed In the right direction. I’ve heard they really grill you. Which makes me nervous. I’m hoping to not freeze up.

CRNAHereICome · Aug 21, 2020

Did anyone else receive an email with a separate zoom link to speak to current students in the program? Do you guys know anything about this or how it works?

bgibbs93 · Aug 21, 2020

It looks like we can log on after our interview to ask the students questions.

Does everyone have their CCRN?