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YES I was admitted WHILE in my BSN completion program.

Sooo you guys have been CRNAs for how long??

Hard science grades, communication skills, language skills, work ethic, ability to think under pressure, knowledge of the profession, some humility.. ( It's OK you can lose this when you graduate.) My PERSONAL favorite is WORK ETHIC...

What makes you think you will not clean up poop or give pts bedpans as a CRNA??

To be honest, these rankings are meaningless. They are done with surveys sent to alum etc. There is no science to these ranking other than it being popularity contest. When you get out of school and pass your exam, very few people will give a damn from where you graduated. CRNA school is all about what YOU make of it. Show me Certification exam pass rates and THEN I will care about a list.

No advanatge at all to a DNAP... go the PhD ROUTE and AVOID ALL THAT NONSENSE. If you are an a CRNA when the mandatory educational standards are adopted... you will NOT have to get the higher degree. So there is no real advanatge to the DNAP unless you do it ab initio. I strongly suggest an MSA for the simple reason that the time spent in an MSN program studying Orem, Hall or Abdellah et. al. is spent learning things that will actually make a DIFFERENCE to patient care in the anesthesia world.... physiology etc.

Startnig pay for new grads in this area is about 120K.

I think it is SILLY... just as I think it is silly I SHOULD be signing my name CRNA APN...lumping CRNAs with APNs was a bad move on the part of my states BON. This is being done for a couple of reasons.. the LEAST of which is, during you CRNA MSN, MSA etc,, you will be doing MORE didactic and MORE clinical work than nursey nurse DNS programs. Yes there are idiots in the AANA also.

LOL PAY is why I'm IN this job!!!

The CCRN actually carries a lot of wight in some programs.. DO IT.

Apply NOW.. I was completing my BSN when I was admitted.

The MSN will mean nothing. The NCLEX is the important part. As long as you have the critical care experience and the hard sciences ( Which it appears you do.) You should have no problems. One important question is; How are your English conversational skills? When I sat on admission boards, we had to turn down some sterling applicants... who were, like yourself, physicians from other countries, due to communication skills. I do not think you have a thing to worry about. Relax..

CCRN without a doubt. SWANS are falling out of use. Do not worry about those. Take more science courses if possible.... and I cannot stress this ENOUGH..... SHADOW A CRNA for SEVERAL days..

WAIVE THEM. period.

I would bet there is something you are leaving out... on paper you should be admitted....you must interview poorly. I doubt it has anything to do with skin color... trust me on this one,, I used to do the interviews.