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Anyone using Army Reserve STRAP? Just doing some evaluation and soul searching... I am currently applying to CRNA schools and have an interview lined up in Nov. @ U. of Cincinnati...awaiting other invites too. I am 36 and have been an Army Reservist ...

Wow, I had not checked this thread for awhile... A year or so out from finishing at UC I would say that my experience more than adequately prepared me for my job as a CRNA. I was indeed ready to go from day #1. I am privileged to do airway/anesthes...

Congrats!

I am a recent UC grad. I would say that I may share some of your friend's sentiments. That being said, most of my didactic was strong--there are a few instructors who are not that great in class. Clinical is a very mixed bag. UC has traditionally...

I just graduated from UC in Dec. 2010. I had not taken physics since high school and took the chemistry required for nurses during my BSN--chem/physics is not that bad in CRNA school. All of what you have planned sounds very good. Your ICU is a goo...

I am a recent CRNA school grad. The key is to start working in an ICU as soon as possible. Get your CCRN. If you can become an ACLS instructor etc. it helps. Start educating yourself about what CRNA's do and read posts on here to prepare yourself...

Good rationale for choice. I am graduating from UC's program in a little over a week.

Jump, UC senior student with 5 months left to go here. I took the basic chem included in my BSN. No physics. My GRE was like 1050-ish. No CCRN. No committee time. ICU time was same as yours. Chem/Physics in CRNA program was hard but do-able if...

Natasha, As previously stated, there may well be contracts out there in the Cincinnati market, but they can be few and far between. I have classmates who have gotten them from B North, Good Sam, and UC (UC once they were in the program). The market...

Johnson, I am in UC's program and have about 6 months to go. There is plenty of info available searching these threads on the interview process...I posted alot myself...search and find it. I the idea of a pre-programmed attrition rate is far-fetche...

Hi, I am a second year UC CRNA student. That should mean you are in...you will get the official letter (along with the list of 10,000 things you need to do prior to Fall 2010) this month. Good luck. PM for advice or questions. You will be assigne...

I gradauate in Dec. 2010...the day defore I turn 40... Beedog13

Eileen, I like my program just fine. I am sure they are all challenging in their own ways--many the same...some different. While my didactic instruction has been pretty good, I feel the clinicals and the design of the program are really the main se...

Eileen, I am a first year student at UC. Your GRE may well land you a 60%-ish scholarship, but I heard recently that they are re-looking at the current policy of using the GRE as an exclusive tool to award those scholarships--keep your ear to the gr...

Wow, That is a great tool for anyone looking into CRNA school. I it had been available when I was applying in 2007. B-dog

Focker, I am in the last qtr. of my first yr. in a good program. You do not get to choose which GPA they will look at--they are going to look at everything and there is no hiding from any past academic transgressions--they are going to get every tran...

Anyone using/used/repaying Army Reserve STRAP? Just doing some evaluation and soul searching... I am currently applying to CRNA schools and have an interview lined up in Nov. @ U. of Cincinnati...awaiting other invites too. I am 36 and have been an A...

babynurse, I am the second qtr. at U of Cincinnati. I think it will be a mixed bag; don't let that discourage you! I have not done peds anesthesia yet, but I think that many of us from the non-peds world will have a harder time with peds than you w...

I am a first year SRNA and my wife is a 3rd year JD (Law) student. We are engaged in a friendly wager about the volume of info and/or level of difficulty concerning our two fields of study. Anyone done both or know anyone who has and would care/dare...

Hope for the best! And if that does not work out, you got picked as an alternate to one of the top programs in the country--I know of several fully qualified people who interviewed and did not get a nod at all. Someone who is accepted is bound to c...

The vast majority of my classmates are taking all of them during the first qtr. like me--I guess anything you can do ahead of time helps as long as you clear it with the department. Personally, I would advise you to enjoy any time you have to do thi...

Perkizme, Alot of my classmates got either Adv. Health Assessment, and Adv. Physiology done early--the first Qtr. is pretty challenging--anything you can get done early will help--just make sure you have enough hrs. to keep your loans, scholarships e...

I am a first year student at UC. PM me if you need any advice. Beedog

I am a first-year SRNA at U. of Cincinnati and I would like to know how common it is in your practice to pre-treat with a low dose of a NDMB in order to decrease post-op soreness R/T fasciculations and/or any of the other possible side effects of SCh...

Keep it coming... Beedog