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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.

No,, actually the difference is the nursing theory crap,, nothing else.

am a neuro- junkie I LOVE neuroanestheisa cases.

You are my hero!!!

Well it is as simple as puttting you LPN license on inactive mode in one state adn getting an RN license in another... Been there, done that.

Yes I was an ICU nurse for many years and eventually a nurse manager of an ICU. I loved being a staff nurse. It was a job few people were willing to do. As for the staff being rude to you, get used to it,, nurses in general not only ' Eat their young"... If you so much as HINT you want to be a CRNA your life will be a living hell. Its called the CRAB BUCKET MENTALITY. If you want a nice time during your BSN completion tell everyone you are going to be a CNS... or better yet a PhD and are going into teaching.. but for god's sake do NOT mention CRNA. I took the same route you did,, except I went LPN.. ADN .. BSN .. MSN CRNA.. to whatever it takes to get into an anesthesia school you will NEVER EVER regret it.

One HUGE advantage to the MSA...... no ' OLD DEAD WHITE WOMEN COURSES" AKA NURSING THEORY. No need to know one THING OREM et al ever thought. I am an MSN CRNA and the nursing theory crap was painful.

I have heard from a few people Would those be other nurses? If so, I am not the least bit surprised..... it is called the CRAB BUCKET MENTALITY OF NURSES for a very good reason.

I work three 12+ hour days a week.... the residents do the weekday call and on the weekend days I am assigned call, a resident will take it for me and be paid " moonlighting money" from the department as they are cheaper labor than I am so I in effect have NO call. On my days off I often work in smaller outlying hospitals for an hourly amount equal to a locums BUT since those anesthesia departments are ALSO part of the University Medical School I work for, It all comes on the same check. THAT part is my Texas Holdum fund.

I am a CRNA who works for a Medical School and have seen at least 7 prior nurses rotate through residencies here,, gen surg,,,dermatology,,, anesthesia.... neurosurgery.. and I have never ever ever seen ANYONE in any way denigrate their prior postition as a nurse.

How much would you like to bet that if I did NOT have CRNA after my name, that would have been one of the first replies.