rose98

I'm starting anesthesia school in August (MSA as well). I have no experience starting IV's since every hospital I have worked at has an IV team. Oddly enough, this it what I am probably the most nervous about. However, I don't think we are alone....5 of my coworkers are also attending MSA and they have little or no experience with IV starts. Another coworker that started last August said MSA sets you up with IV nurses and she shadowed the iv nurse for 3 hours, and then started IV's for the last 5 hours. I think the experience is all on your own time and its only for those not comfortable starting IV's. You can probably do that as many times as you need, or have time for. I just think, if everyone else can learn that skill, why wouldn't we be able? It will just take time and practice like everything else.

A couple of my co-workers already had their interviews this year but they had their applictions in extremely early. I think they interview until the very end of January, so I'm sure they are still contacting people for awhile. Good luck to everyone.