How many of you want to be a CRNA??

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Well the question explains it all--Lets hear it :up:

Hopefully.

Very competitive?

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YES! I want to be a CRNA. The money a CRNA makes is very appealing. But I start nursing school in the spring and ill take it one step at a time. At the moment, critical care interests me. The only thing I worry about CRNA is market saturation and everybody else wanting to be one. Many have told me they want to be a CRNA.

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Why do I have a feeling CRNA is going to be to nurses what nursing is to the general public?

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I want to be a CRNA! Just starting BSN in January though, so it will be a while

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YES! I want to be a CRNA. The money a CRNA makes is very appealing. But I start nursing school in the spring and ill take it one step at a time. At the moment, critical care interests me. The only thing I worry about CRNA is market saturation and everybody else wanting to be one. Many have told me they want to be a CRNA.

I wouldn't worry so much about that. It's a highly competitive program. A lot of kids going into nursing have read about it but never even seen a CRNA.

It's akin to so many premeds wanting to become surgeons. Why? Salary. Prestige. The "ultimate-ness" of it.

I suspect that's a lot of the appeal behind CRNA. It fits the bill kind of like the whole surgeon thing.

I'd like to be one because I've worked with them, and experienced it enough to understand their job responsibilities. It later became apparent to me that I was actually quite good, although I'm not sure why, at performing endotracheal intubations not that that one skill means a whole lot in the grand scheme of "who gets CRNA and who doesn't." I also enjoy learning about phyiology, pathophysiology, and pharmacology. Anyone working in anesthesia is going to be on the upper cusp of that realm of knowledge because they have to be. I just think it'd be a good job. If AA positions were more common then I wouldn't mind applying specifically to that school. I only wish PAs could do more in anesthesia. Right now PA is another new career option for me.

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