How useful is volunteer fiire dept. for CRNA school resume...

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My wife and I have spent the last several years in our local volunteer fire dept., undergoing first responders/EMT training. It involves about three days of training per month, and maybe six to ten calls a week taking maybe six hours a week responding to those (we live in a rural area with no regular fire dept). Personally, I think our time would be better spent working on our grades, and earning money (we also both work about fifteen hours a week for a home health agency). My GPA is 3.8 and hers 3.4, but she if far more technically proficent at the finer aspects of nursing than am I (and I feel she would have a much better chance of actually getting through CRNA school than me IF she can get her grades up to the point where she might be accepted).

She thinks I am either an agent of the Dark Sith Lords or just plain lazy for not wanting to get up at 3:00 AM to go out in ten degree weather, just to see the lastest DUI victim splattered all over their automobile (my diatribes about how volunteering crowds out economic growth from business in the private sector probably don't help!). Personally, I think that most CRNA schools give about as much weight to prospective applicants for volunteer activities as most guys give females consideration for personality at local bars. So who's right? Am I an Ivan Bosky supplicant, who watched too many episodes of Family Ties in the 80's or a sage student of reality suffering the slings and arrows of a well meaning, but misled woman?

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to my position I will inform my wife that it is the concensus of the CRNA board that I am correct and that we should cease wasting our time! It's actually more of a burden on her than me since she is in her final semester of BSN clinicals, and I don't start again until next fall ( I took a year off to "nurse" my mother who had NSLC).

Part of the problem is that I want her to become a CRNA so she can earn enough money so that I don't have to work!

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atta boy, ROLAND. stay at home hubby. :roll

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CRNA school because of all this volunteer Fire Dept. stuff, it's going to mean she will have to work alot more overtime in order to properly support me and my son. We have expensive tastes and Hawaii isn't cheap (besides I've decided my son should become a champion big wave surfer, and those surfing lessons aren't cheap). So you see I'm just thinking of what is best for her.

Being so caring and selfless is a personal curse that can easily short circuit my success if I don't get it under control.

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

I'm also a volunteer on my rural FD and love the adrenaline rush too. (I'm an ER RN). I'm in school for a BS N/MSN combo. Good luck...

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