GorillaRN

I actually applied to both. I know the UT-Chattanooga deadline is coming up quick. Did you apply to any others?

Hey everyone, I have wanted to be a CRNA since I was a sophomore in college. I am in my first year as an ICU nurse and having doubts. When I was in nursing school I was in OR a few times and just was very bored with it. I just had a few questions. Do you find being in the OR all day boring? Did any of you ever consider Nurse Practitioner? I just enjoy patient interaction and like Emergency Room. I have wanted to do CRNA for a long time, but just having 2nd thoughts. If you could go back and do it all over again, would you? Any advice or wisdom would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. P.s. - feel free to PM me with any advice as well.

I spoke with a CRNA today and really enjoyed what I heard. I personally am going to keep my comments to myself on my future career until I have made a decision. Every CRNA I have ever spoken with loves their job, they have said it is simply more than "passing gas" and that they never regret going down that path and never find the job boring. I am going to just stand back and enjoy my newfound freedom in the ICU (Which I love) and take a few classes in the spring/fall (Statistics, Physics (EWW!!)). I know I need 2 years in ICU to get into most programs, so I am going to just take it slow. I think I will be posting on the SRNA board soon :). Thanks for the advice and keep it coming.

Let me start off by saying I am a new BSN grad who up until a few months ago knew 99% that I wanted to be a CRNA. A few months ago I just decided to forgo that and though I wanted to do FNP or PA. I got into nursing because I wished to pursue the CRNA field. I left it because I feared it would be "boring" or monotonous, I guess I just heard too many times from others "You are doing it for the money" or "I think that would be boring to do". I honestly dont. I think anesthesia is a very cool field, I always said I wanted to deal with patients in the highest acuity (surgery is pretty serious) and deal patients in alot of pain, to help them. The more I really think of it, the more I realize maybe that CRNA is what I wanted all along. I was given a job in the ICU, I truely wanted ER, even put the offer off quite a while hoping to get ER. I did not and the only offer I had was ICU. Maybe that is just God's way of saying that I am supposed to do CRNA. I mean since I decided not to do it, I have changed my mind every week, but for years I was dead set on CRNA, and have only in the last few months felt different, but I think as I stated before, it was simply thinking it may be "boring" or monotonous. Hey doing epidurals looks pretty fun to me though. I hope you don't think wrongly of me, I am just 23 and new at all this "career" stuff and was just nervous of any field thinking about doing it the rest of my life. Any advice for a youngin like myself? I had a few questions by the way. 1. Do you ever regret being a CRNA 2. Do you ever miss patient interaction or feel the job is "boring" or monotonous? 3. If you could would you do it all over again? Thanks everyone!