Newman University CRNA 2023

newlupylou2, BSN, RN · Oct 27, 2022

18 hours ago, txgypsymurse said:

My friend emailed (MODERATOR EDIT OF NAME) who is the director of the program and got an automated response back saying that she was out of the office till 10/31 at 0900. But she has an admin assistant who might be sending out invites.

the interview request came from (MODERATOR EDIT OF NAME)..

CVnurse2014 · Oct 29, 2022

I interviewed at Newman 2 years ago and ultimately chose a different program.

Very tough interview. They want you to show you have some solid background and that you have studied to prepare for this. But another huge part of going through these clinical scenarios in interviews, is not guessing to give them an answer. They’re trying to take you down a path and to a level of information that 99% of nurses don’t know even when you’re an icy nurse with great experience. They want you to acknowledge that you don’t know versus guessing which may show overconfidence or clueless confidence, cockiness and a general disregard for the levity and consequences that guessing will pose if continued during anesthesia practice.
so once I got to a point where I didn’t know the answer anymore, I explained everything I knew about what they were asking, and then said, but I am not sure what the correct answer to your question is. But I can definitely see how this would be extremely important to understand for anesthesia and would look forward to learning more about it in school. And at some point I also said I am definitely going to be thinking about this for a while and looking it up after this interview.

interview questions

a two minute elevator speech about yourself and why you over everyone else or why anesthesia

if you’re out of state, why you chose the school. Do you have anyone that lives around here? -Basically looking for you to show your tenacity. You’re prepared to move and live without anyone nearby.

How you’ll handle that stress

how are you financially prepared for this?

clincally

They may start out easy with your pulse oxes reading 68 what do you do first. Walk through steps of checking pulse ox and they say yup. That’s fine. OK is everything connected (vent etc) you fine. OK then I would listen for breath sounds. You only hear it on the right. OK so I think we are right main stem and the ETT should be pulled back. OK great the tube got pulled back sat 100%. Why does the to go right mainstem- know the difference in anatomy that cause it to go down right vs left.

So just know too, your answers guide the next question. In terms of cardiac and hemodynamics, if they’re asking you to treat someone with a low blood pressure, whatever drug you used to treat it be able to speak to the receptor level how the drug is working to produce the effect. Don’t use a drug you cant do that with.
know which drugs would be used for right heart failure versus left heart failure, how a balloon pump helps with heart failure, if a drug causes arterial or Venous dilation. Not sure if these were more because I was a CVICU nurse or if everyone had these. How do you to tell a balloon pump is in correct position on an x-ray, do you detect, during inflation or deflation, what artery is blocked if the catheter is advanced to far. Why do they use helium? ( because of its low density it can shuttle more quickly beat to beat)

Know the difference between shunting and dead space. They’ll ask you to identify if clinical situation is from shunting or from dead space. Not a topic I could grasp very well before school but stumbled through an answer. -which included here’s what I know and I forward to learning more about this

Receptor level of how sedatives produce their effects. And then why those sedatives also produce hypotension.

and then after they beat you up for a little bit. They might do some more personality questions. ask you how do you think the interview went? And if you didn’t get into school this time, what would you do? What would you have done differently for this interview? and do you have any questions for us.

A couple things about the program that I learned from their current students that we met met during the interviews. The school was very well known for having one of the best regional rotations and experiences amongst CRNA schools. This is a great attribute to have. SO MANY programs have minimal regional opportunities for students so you’ll meet the requirements for graduation but not nearly enough to be able to competently do them on your own. (Which not all jobs let crnas do the nerve blocks or epidurals anyways) but a great skill to learn for CRNA only practice more autonomy.

I also asked if they had ever felt like they were gonna fail out of the program. And they pretty quickly said no. Which I think speaks to the support from the faculty to help with your learning? Other programs when I asked definitely could not say that students hadn’t filled out or felt like they were going to fail.

your clinical sites could be a pretty far drive I believe. Multiple sites so not all students get the same experience which you could be lucky and get the better or lesser experience. And the timing of your experiences varies a lot.

skellington · Oct 31, 2022

If (according to a previous post) the director was out of the office until today, I wonder if the rest of us who haven't heard yet will receive rejections later today LOL

mcnurse11 · Oct 31, 2022

I received my no interview invite email an hour ago, hope the best for you all!

ICUstream26, BSN · Oct 31, 2022

Ahh man that's really tough, keep moving forward, don't let this discourage you!

txgypsymurse, BSN, RN · Nov 1, 2022

7 hours ago, mcnurse11 said:

I received my no interview invite email an hour ago, hope the best for you all!

I’m sorry to hear that! I haven’t gotten an invite or a no interview email yet so I’m just sitting here wondering what’s up.. Did they give you any feedback?

skellington · Nov 1, 2022

I haven't gotten an email either, and some of the (zoom) interviews are tomorrow...

txgypsymurse, BSN, RN · Nov 1, 2022

2 minutes ago, skellington said:

I haven't gotten an email either, and some of the (zoom) interviews are tomorrow...

Just out of curiosity, what letter does your last name start with? Mine is P.

skellington · Nov 1, 2022

Mine is N, for what it's worth

mcnurse11 · Nov 1, 2022

Mine starts with a C, they said there were a lot of applicants but nothing specific for me personally

josb, BSN, RN · Nov 1, 2022

Mine starts with an O and I’m also still in limbo

newlupylou2, BSN, RN · Nov 1, 2022

On 10/28/2022 at 11:31 PM, CVnurse2014 said:

I interviewed at Newman 2 years ago and ultimately chose a different program.

Very tough interview. They want you to show you have some solid background and that you have studied to prepare for this. But another huge part of going through these clinical scenarios in interviews, is not guessing to give them an answer. They’re trying to take you down a path and to a level of information that 99% of nurses don’t know even when you’re an icy nurse with great experience. They want you to acknowledge that you don’t know versus guessing which may show overconfidence or clueless confidence, cockiness and a general disregard for the levity and consequences that guessing will pose if continued during anesthesia practice.
so once I got to a point where I didn’t know the answer anymore, I explained everything I knew about what they were asking, and then said, but I am not sure what the correct answer to your question is. But I can definitely see how this would be extremely important to understand for anesthesia and would look forward to learning more about it in school. And at some point I also said I am definitely going to be thinking about this for a while and looking it up after this interview.

interview questions

a two minute elevator speech about yourself and why you over everyone else or why anesthesia

if you’re out of state, why you chose the school. Do you have anyone that lives around here? -Basically looking for you to show your tenacity. You’re prepared to move and live without anyone nearby.

How you’ll handle that stress

how are you financially prepared for this?

clincally

They may start out easy with your pulse oxes reading 68 what do you do first. Walk through steps of checking pulse ox and they say yup. That’s fine. OK is everything connected (vent etc) you fine. OK then I would listen for breath sounds. You only hear it on the right. OK so I think we are right main stem and the ETT should be pulled back. OK great the tube got pulled back sat 100%. Why does the to go right mainstem- know the difference in anatomy that cause it to go down right vs left.

So just know too, your answers guide the next question. In terms of cardiac and hemodynamics, if they’re asking you to treat someone with a low blood pressure, whatever drug you used to treat it be able to speak to the receptor level how the drug is working to produce the effect. Don’t use a drug you cant do that with.
know which drugs would be used for right heart failure versus left heart failure, how a balloon pump helps with heart failure, if a drug causes arterial or Venous dilation. Not sure if these were more because I was a CVICU nurse or if everyone had these. How do you to tell a balloon pump is in correct position on an x-ray, do you detect, during inflation or deflation, what artery is blocked if the catheter is advanced to far. Why do they use helium? ( because of its low density it can shuttle more quickly beat to beat)

Know the difference between shunting and dead space. They’ll ask you to identify if clinical situation is from shunting or from dead space. Not a topic I could grasp very well before school but stumbled through an answer. -which included here’s what I know and I forward to learning more about this

Receptor level of how sedatives produce their effects. And then why those sedatives also produce hypotension.

and then after they beat you up for a little bit. They might do some more personality questions. ask you how do you think the interview went? And if you didn’t get into school this time, what would you do? What would you have done differently for this interview? and do you have any questions for us.

A couple things about the program that I learned from their current students that we met met during the interviews. The school was very well known for having one of the best regional rotations and experiences amongst CRNA schools. This is a great attribute to have. SO MANY programs have minimal regional opportunities for students so you’ll meet the requirements for graduation but not nearly enough to be able to competently do them on your own. (Which not all jobs let crnas do the nerve blocks or epidurals anyways) but a great skill to learn for CRNA only practice more autonomy.

I also asked if they had ever felt like they were gonna fail out of the program. And they pretty quickly said no. Which I think speaks to the support from the faculty to help with your learning? Other programs when I asked definitely could not say that students hadn’t filled out or felt like they were going to fail.

your clinical sites could be a pretty far drive I believe. Multiple sites so not all students get the same experience which you could be lucky and get the better or lesser experience. And the timing of your experiences varies a lot.

Great info, thank you for posting! Do you remember how long it was after your interview that they notified of acceptance or not?