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Hello Everyone, I'm researching CRNA programs that have clinicals within one local area. I'd like to focus my applications to programs where my family and I could rent a home in the area where the CRNA program is for the entire time I would be in the...

Spode, Nurse Anesthesia school is doable with young children. I have two children and they were ages 2years and the other just 9 weeks old when I began my program in Fall '08. There is another mother in my class with three children at the start of th...

Try emailing the Georgia Association of Nurse Anesthetists. I got a contact for someone in my area to shadow by doing that. Good luck!

Though I find it generally somewhat distracting to wear my precordial for entire cases (balancing all the OR chat, monitors beeps and buzzes, and the sounds of the patients heart and lungs can be a lot), I find it really helpful to use it at least i...

Hello Everyone, I am seeking advice/opinions about what important things to be looking for in my first job out of Nurse Anesthesia School. A little bit about me: I am married with two preschool-aged children, I will graduate 12/2010 and my oldest wil...

I sort of agree with both posts...certainly the level I trauma would look great on your applications, but I think admissions committees also tend to recognize that Level II's and smaller (but still high acuity) ICU's can give you excellent experience...

Good point! Thanks, Adonai

I also have a family and didn't think it would be very easy to attend clinicals all over the state. So I applied to programs that had all their clinical sites within reasonable commuting distance from the school. Examples, Wake Forest, Virginia Commo...

I don't think you would be at any significant disadvantage by taking the job closer to home. SICU is great experience for anesthesia school and I think you'll develop relationships within your first year there that will serve as the source for your r...

Congratulations to you on your acceptance to Nurse Anesthesia School, as well as your many other accomplishments. I am a currently in Nurse Anesthesia school and I have two kids (1 1/2 and 3 1/2 years of age), but my situation is quite different in t...

Hello Everyone, I'll be starting a Nurse Anesthesia Program this Fall and would like to do some prep work in Physiology and Organic Chem/BioChem to get ready for some tough first semester courses. I prefer to take an online or distance learning cours...

Also take a look at these: Florida International, Barry Univ., Wolford, Raleigh, Univ of Maryland, Middle TN School of NA, UT Chattanooga... I'm not sure that all of these schools have clinicals in one local area, but I seem to remember that they wer...

I am a current SRNA and I have two young children. When considering Nurse Anesthesia programs, I only considered programs that had all their clinical sites within commuting distance of the campus so that I knew I'd be coming home each night (no out-o...

Look carefully at the applications of the programs you are applying to. Several of the ones I applied to were mainly concerned about your gpa for you last 60 credit hours of coursework. Also, since your work experience, certifications, most recent gr...

There are many fine nurses who have turned their lives around from what they used to do way back when. I think you've got a great shot at nursing. Though I'm not very knowledgeable on this topic, I've heard a couple of things that might be helpful: 1...

I am an SRNA and African American. I do not believe that my race or gender had any impact on the admissions process or how I am treated in the clinical setting. I feel like I'm treated fairly, like anyone else in my program, in those settings -- howe...

Have you had a talk with your program director? At my school, those who failed the exit exam had a process of remediation that helped them prepare to take the exit exam again. If you failed it twice, I think they evaluated what you were having proble...

All our classes take place in one room, 2nd floor of the old West Hospital Building. Our teachers come to us. The exception if 1st semester when you have Physiology class. Everything else is in West Hospital. I recommend taking Physiology before the ...

I'm one of JenniferCCRN's classmates. I just wanted to say that it is certainly possible, though not easy, to manage a family while being an SRNA. I have two kids (2 yo and a 4 month old baby that I am still nursing). Like Beedog, I do a good bit of ...

I interviewed at Wake Forest last Fall. Their interview can be somewhat intimidating as they do a panel-style interview...only the panel has about 20 people on it! They have you seated at the head of a rectangular table setup sitting next to the Dire...

Hello Everyone, I have an interview coming up for the Nurse Anesthesia Program at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center / UNC Greensboro. Have any of you interviewed there? Can you give me some tips on what to expect (what type of questions d...

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I bombed my first Kaplan practice test too. Just to give you an idea of how my first Kaplan practice went and how far I improved with study...I did around 750 or so on my first practice test and did just under 1400 on the real thing. Study pays off!!...

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I chose Virginia Commonwealth University located in Richmond, VA. I applied to many programs, received interview invitations to all but one of them, but I only interviewed at the first two programs that I was invited two as they were already my top t...