I love the prospect of being a nurse. I love bedside care. Patients really make me thankful for my health and family. I am older (54) and I want to become a CRNA after my year of critical care so I can help my patients on a higher level. I already have my BSN and most prereqs.
What's the shortest time you've heard being a critical care nurse, then going into CRNA school? Can you really be in CRNA school after just one year of critical nursing? I dont know, I might miss bedside too much. Thats really a short time. thanks!
I graduated from Harding University in May of 2006, applied for school in October, was accepted in November, and will begin my ansthesia education in June 2007.:balloons:
I was accepted to three different programs with only 5 months of experience at the time of my interviews. I will have about 13 months experience at the time school starts. It can be done!
I was accepted with 8 months nursing (ICU) experience, and started school with 20 months. I now have less then a year to go in anesthesia school and I am doing great and can't wait to be done!
I'm interested to know if any of you who worked only a minimal amount of time before grad school found it difficult/awkward to approach supervisors for recommendations with so little experience/time on the job ...
I graduated in May, interviewed in October, accepted November and will start September 2007.
I asked my BSN program director and a good friend/mentor who is a CRNA write my LORs. I asked the CNS who was in charge of our internship to fill out the form so I had representation from a "manager".
It would have been way more difficult to ask my unit manager for an LOR with so little time on the job. It is one of the harder parts of applying so early.
The managers on my unit made it known that they would NOT write any LOR for anyone until they had been there at least 2 years! I contacted every program I applied to and explained my situation and they told me to get whatever RNs I worked with to write them for me. I had no problems getting interviews at any of the programs I applied to. I was also accepted to 3 of the first 4 I interviewed at.
My unit manager found out about me getting in and called me into the office one day to ask about my acceptance. She was furious that I did not have to have her seal of approval to apply to school. I told her all the program directors I spoke with did not care if she wrote my LOR or not. Some even thought that she was crazy for instituting this unwritten policy because if word were to get out about it, that she would lose alot of great RNs that did want to go to CRNA school. He said that he would rather have a unit full of RNs wanting to go to CRNA school, than RNs that were going stay for 20 years that were not as eager to learn!
It can be done. I would just contact each program you are applying to if you have problems getting LOR from the managers.
i guess there is always someone on any given unit who has to be "all powerful". i'm glad you got into school. congrats!
i don't know what state you are in, but i heard that the rules in nj were changing to a minimum of 2 years of some type of critical care position. can anyone tell me if the 2-year requirement in nj has taken effect, will take effect and when, or if was just a rumor?
Contact the schools to find out for sure. Nothing beats hearing it from the horse's mouth, as well as establishing a relationship with the school prior to submitting an application.
Contact the schools to find out for sure. Nothing beats hearing it from the horse's mouth, as well as establishing a relationship with the school prior to submitting an application.
i have only one year... i applied to seven schools... got interview requests for six... got into three already and have three interviews this month.
How much experience will you have when you start the program? Will you keep on working in the ICU until you start the program? If you have 1 year when you begin the application process then you probably will have close to 2 when you start, of course that assumes you keep working in ICU-I have seen people take several months off. You will learn so much your second year in ICU, that's when you will start really doing some critical thinking, if you are on your toes and paying attention.
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I graduated from Harding University in May of 2006, applied for school in October, was accepted in November, and will begin my ansthesia education in June 2007.:balloons: