How good was your Florida CRNA program?

[Surfing_T_waves]

Hi to all who visit this thread!!

I am asking for SRNA or new CRNA's who went to school in Florida to talk about your program. I'm looking into schools and don't want my decision to be based off of statistical data/ location alone, yet have had trouble finding real opinions from students about their experiences.

Please name your program and touch on the culture, the positives it offers, the negatives, unexpected things you wish you knew b4 starting (specific to your program), the staff, the location, etc. Was the course load heavier at the beginning of the program or end? How prepared did you feel exiting the program?

Thank you in advance!

STW

[Kenneth Bradley]

I’m also very interested. Following thread!

[sleepyyyyyyy]

Anyone in University of South Florida? Im interested to know how is the program here. thank you

[Jkloo]

There are a few good ones but for some reason Florida schools have a poor reputation.

[HawtRN, BSN]

On 6/21/2020 at 12:54 PM, Jkloo said:

There are a few good ones but for some reason Florida schools have a poor reputation.

Do you know which schools have poor reputation? When you say poor, do you mean the clinical rotations are not ideal? Thanks

[Jkloo]

3 hours ago, HawtRN said:

Do you know which schools have poor reputation? When you say poor, do you mean the clinical rotations are not ideal? Thanks

Sorry I really don't know. It's just the reputation. I know of a hospital in Texas that for instance won't take students from Florida schools....presumably wouldn't hire either. Not trying to start an argument or debate just saying it's something I wouldve liked to know when applying. I'm guessing it's because there are also of schools, pay is relatively low, and there's AA and mda conflicts....Probably ends up with poor clinical sites.

[HawtRN, BSN]

1 hour ago, Jkloo said:

Sorry I really don't know. It's just the reputation. I know of a hospital in Texas that for instance won't take students from Florida schools....presumably wouldn't hire either. Not trying to start an argument or debate just saying it's something I wouldve liked to know when applying. I'm guessing it's because there are also of schools, pay is relatively low, and there's AA and mda conflicts....Probably ends up with poor clinical sites.

Thank you for your honest feedback. I would hate to complete a program and then not be able to get a job in a desired location.

[nurseflip26, CRNA]

I went to Barry University in the Master's program and had a good experience. Clinically I felt very prepared coming out and felt pretty comfortable as a new grad. I went straight into a fairly autonomous practice with docs and CRNAs each doing their own cases. Didactic was demanding but I felt that it was above average in quality--but it's my only exposure so hard to gauge. You'll work your butt off here but it's work it!

Negatives of the program. Many of my sites did not encourage SRNAs to do blocks, so I had to really push to get my block experience. However, this is totally clinical site dependent and some other classmates at different sites got to do blocks without an issue.