Help Please!!!

klone, MSN, RN · Jul 19, 2016

Holy cow, I thought there was an emergency happening, based on the title of your post!

First you need to become a nurse. CNM and CRNA are two COMPLETELY different careers. You need to figure out which you want to do, because your pathway to get there will vary greatly, depending on which you choose.

rac1, ASN, BSN, RN · Jul 19, 2016

Hi I have a degree in socilogy and wanting to back to school to become a nurse midwife or crna. What should be my first step? Do I need a BA or can I just get my mastors degree?

Hi! I an not a Nurse Midwife - still a nursing student, but I wanted to reply. I have been studying midwifery for over 15 years, before I had my first child. I love homebirth, and midwifery in general, but a ton of *stuff* came in the way of my midwifery education along the way, and I ended up in nursing school. My ultimate goal is to be a Nurse Midwife (something I thought I *never* wanted).

You don't need a BA to get your masters, but you do need to be an RN first. So look around for an RN program you like. Depending on where you live, you may be able to find an accelerated program, usually 18 months instead of 24-27. You'll be competitive because you have a BA already (usually this is true). Get your RN - then you can find a bridge program. Frontier Nursing University is one that has a bridge program. Instead of it taking 2 years for your masters, it'll take you three because you'll have BA courses. You won't be awarded a BSN degree, but you will be awarded your masters for Nurse Midwifery. You're talking 4 years total if you already have all your prereq's for a nursing program and can get in right away. I think there are other bridge programs out there, but I know Frontier for sure offers it.

I don't know anything about CRNA programs.